LED Bracket for Original Prusa Enclosure

I think the LED strip Prusa sells in their shop is too small, weak and expensive. So I bought two meters of a 24V LED strip and aluminium profile and splitted it into five 40cm bars to get some really bright lights into the enclosure.

To connect the LED strip to the Prusa Basic Board you need a Molex Clickmate connector (5CKT CBL A, if you live in Europe and need one contact me via DM, I bought a bag of those at Mouser). The pinout is documented in the Prusa forum.

I used a 4000K 9,6W/m 120LED/m LED strip and I am very happy with it. Not too bright, shadows on the print sheet are soft, it doesn't consume too much power from the PSU and the aluminium profiles don't get hot.

The brackets are made for 14x7mm aluminium profiles (as shown in the pictures) and need a M3 screw and square nut to mount to the frame. Printed with PETG they are flexible enough to let the bar clip in easily but hold it tight enough so it doesn't slip. I also added three types of end caps for the aluminium profile: for one connector, for two connectors and a blind cap. If you also want to use heat shrink tubes for pull relief like I did, heat it with the shaft of your soldering iron, heat guns almost instantly deform the PETG too much.

LED Stripe (9,6W/m - 120LED/m): https://www.ebay.de/itm/114…
Aluminium Profile (type S4): https://www.ebay.de/itm/1247…
Connectors: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B06X…

A very nice side effect is, that the Prusa enclosure is now a little photo studio to take well-lit pictures of your prints, as you can see in my latest makes.

Printed on MK4 IS with PETG in 0.15mm structural preset.

The original Onshape project can be found here: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/