Perflamp1

cults3d

I've posted LED lamps with deliberately placed openings before, but the openings were randomly positioned. Recently, I discovered a way to create evenly spaced openings by mapping a rectangular grid onto the lamp's surface and used this method for this particular lamp. It appears that I went overboard - the 7-pointed star shapes pose a significant challenge for any 3D printer: there are numerous areas where stringing can occur and the tiny star points produce very short extrusions that will create blobs if your extrusion settings aren't spot on. In essence, this lamp will be a true test for any printer. Perflamp2 will be smaller, simpler, and much easier and quicker to print. This lamp printed in approximately 26 hours and 15 minutes using a print speed of 80 mm/sec and a layer height of 0.200 mm. This lamp is designed to hold one of several LED lights called "puck" lights. You can power these lights with either batteries or wall power. A blog page has links for wall-powered lights that work well at http://birkbinnard.com/blog/wall-powered-led-lights/.