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  • Date Created: 8 Apr 2018 3:11 AM Date Created
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The Penultimate Dev Kit PSU update (probably)!

the-dubster
the-dubster
8 Apr 2018

Just a chance to add some final pictures (well, 'pre' final pictures really), before the 'actual' final pictures when the pesky PSU is done!

 

Once the assembly and soldering is completed then I'll move onto something more 'interesting'.

 

First, the failed Light Guide using plastic optical fibres!

The left 'top hat' was glued to the inside of the lid, the right hand LED shroud (radiused inside to perfectly match the curve of the 5mm LED) was shimmied up the fibres (within 1mm of the top hat) and glued in place.

Lid fitted and the shroud dropped over the LED perfectly,

 

Great, except the LED is so dim already that the photons barely make it through the diffused LED lense and really couldn't be arsed to wander up the fibres!

Result? A useless indicator that just doesn't . . . . . .

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Some progressive pics of the hassle I had reworking the logos so they didn't print awfully!

Embossed versus de bossed  - hmmm, both have 'issues' - some worse than others!

 

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Pre clean-up to remove all the remaining support material. It ain't perfect but it's a heap better.

(Plus I rarely stare at it from 2 inches away with a magnifying glass)!!

 

 

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There were other issues where I played in my slicer settings and forgot to tell it to fill the gaps between walls! That looked dreadful!

There are pics of those issues but you've seen enough.

 

Heres one last one of the FINAL lid (kinda), but mid 'fibre-fit' before the LED was installed.

 

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Thanks for for your continued patience and I'll post a better (different) update soon!! image

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  • genebren
    genebren over 7 years ago +1
    That almost final view of your lid is very nice. I like the background texture (surrounding 'project14'). Very nice work there. Gene
  • the-dubster
    the-dubster over 7 years ago in reply to genebren +1
    Thanks Gene, I'm not such a fan of the texture - it's because it is printed upside down over supports rather than the lovely glass bed! Had I printed it the other way up the sunken surfaces would have…
  • the-dubster
    the-dubster over 7 years ago in reply to genebren

    Thanks Gene, I'm not such a fan of the texture - it's because it is printed upside down over supports rather than the lovely glass bed!

     

    Had I printed it the other way up the sunken surfaces would have been better overall, but the ENTIRE inner space would have needed supports printing.

    That's a far longer print and a bit more filament!

     

    The shine of the flat surfaces is what I prefer, to get that you need to print the item with the outer face against the glass.

     

    I could have printed the logos separately and then stuck them on - but where's the fun in that!!

     

    From the distance it WILL be viewed at it looks OK and the texture does make the logo pop a bit more.

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    genebren over 7 years ago

    That almost final view of your lid is very nice.  I like the background texture (surrounding 'project14').  Very nice work there.

    Gene

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