About
‘Daylight on a Stick’ is a chainable PCB LED bar used to illuminate your 3D printer. Connectors are located at both ends of the PCB so you can chain bars together.
Included
One Daylight on a stick PCB, assembled with JST XH headers at both ends.
Specifications
- Voltage: 24V
- Dimensions: 270 x 11 mm
- Power consumption at maximum power: 5W
- The colour temperature: 6000K~6500K (This looks quite natural white)
- The operating temperature of the LEDs is -30C to +85C.
- LED emission angle is 120°
Implementation
These are designed to fit Voron 3D printers and will fit in all sizes of the Voron 2.4 but are compatible with any 24V system.
I have designed a mounting system for use with 2020 extrusion such as with Voron 2.4 which you can find here: Github-V3D-Daylight-Printed Parts
Since these are high-power LEDs they can produce a lot of heat. I’ve found that 50% PWM still provides a lot of light and keeps the temperature increase to about 16C. Raising the brightness for short periods such as time-lapse photos would be fine but long periods of operation over the rated temperature will significantly shorten their life. Aim to keep them below 80C.
Modifications
I have modified the original design in a few ways:
- Different LEDs.
- High CRI is not needed for 3D printing, only for highly accurate colour work such as videography and photography so they have been swapped for more widely available LEDs.
- Different resistors and layout
- Since different LEDs are used, the layout and resistors have been adjusted to suit these.
Open Source Info
The original version of the Voron Daylight PCB: Github-Voron-Daylight
My modified version is here: Github-V3D-Daylight
Change Log
V2 (main changes)
- PCB was white, now black
- pinout changed so JST XH is same pinout both ends
- JST XH Location slightly changed
- Voron logo changed to silkscreen layer
