I was browsing Aliexpress for materials for my project and came upon these LED Strips that are pre wired to connect to Bambu Lab printers, given how cheap they were I was considering ordering 2 of them for the printers here, just wanted to check with the @3dtechs before hand to see if there was any objection?
LED light strips for Bambu Lab 3D Printers
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Have you found the default lighting to be insufficient? I’m not voting nay by any means but just wanted to check that there is a need first of all. Any damage caused by unauthorised third party accessories would likely invalidate any warranty for the parts affected. In this case probably the AP board.
I really like to use the time-lapse feature of the printers and I feel the default light is a bit lacklustre in that regard and could benefit from the additional light.
In regards to potential damage, while I agree that there is a small risk of invalidating warranty, I highly doubt that they would cause any issues. This seems to be a common mod for the printers from what I can see online and the strips themselves only run at 5V.
Yes that would be my main concern. I wouldn’t object to external lights mounted above the machine as long as they aren’t wired into the electronics of the actual printer.
One thing I would say, as more of a general consideration for the space, is things that are going to be implemented on really popular tools, such as the printers, should have a strong community backing and ideally be useful to all. If we have a wave of people wanting things like this, then its a good thing to have but we might want to think of a more robust solution.
in this case large LED strips mounted securely to the underside of the top shelf and possibly wired into tool control would be a great solution as we wont have to wire them into the machine and are good to illuminate the area whilst you are loading/unloading.
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You make a good point about having strong community backing, apologies if I have overstepped in any way here! I thought it would be a welcome addition 
I think a light system mounted to the underside of the shelves would be a good solution, if the general consensus is that this would be a welcome addition then I am happy to spend some time working on it 
not overstepping at all. just we have no metric at all as to how often the timelapses are actually used so I have no idea if its something people want or not!
I’m all for this! As @cdldn says, timelapses are lacklustre at the moment. +1 for an extreme psychedelic rave lighting rig, preferably synched to the chosen music track. Let’s have eye-popping timelapse clips!
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Strong rave vibes.
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