2020 LED Mount

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<p>I made these for my gridbot v2, but many 2020/etc. printers or other machines can use this. It holds a little strip of lights that need 5V:</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073YCX8WW">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073YCX8WW</a></p><p>It is pretty dim, and I was hoping it would help me see first layer texture, but it doesn't help much. </p><p>Where it does help is when I connect to the control camera or get a message with a finished print at night.</p><p>After:</p><figure class="image"><img src="https://media.prusaprinters.org/media/prints/61816/rich_content/005ea313-5252-4384-bcab-fbda31fe6636/snapshot.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%22759075e6-9299-4315-9c1f-65abac0c94d0%22%2C%22w%22%3A640%2C%22h%22%3A480%7D"/></figure><p>Before:</p><figure class="image"><img src="https://media.prusaprinters.org/media/prints/61816/rich_content/501de496-1dc4-45a1-b679-4a8eee74db71/snapshot-1.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%224817f6e3-5080-4979-825d-5a57997dd664%22%2C%22w%22%3A640%2C%22h%22%3A480%7D"/></figure><p>The red glow is from the BLTouch, so you can probably gauge how much light there is (nothing compared to the room lights or the sun in the window).</p><p>I cut an old USB cable and soldered the wires to the LED strip after it was installed. I measured the current and it was about 20mA, so I just plugged the USB into the pi on the front of my machine.</p>