I get a pretty good shadow under my gantry and sometimes I need a little more light. I’m thinking some LED strip lights mounted to the bottom of the gantry might be a good solution. Any thoughts? Ed

Is this something like a “Pimp My CNC” thread? I kid. That’s a really good idea, especially for anyone who films/streams their CNC in action. I plan to attach a video feed to mine so I can keep tabs on it while my son is running it.

I have tons of LEDs. I have just been waiting for someone to find a spot to pull power from in the Avid plug and play boxes, other than the external relay plugs. I dont want to have to run another 110v whip to my machine for some dinky 0.2A LEDS.

I installed led strip in the two channels on the underside of the gantry. Lights up pretty good. I don’t have the plug and play, built my own and have power supplies for 5, 12, 24 and 48vdc. I fed the led strip with figure 8 from the 12vdc supply. There must be 12vdc to tap into in the plug and play…

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I did this over a year ago and I am very happy with the result. I bought the LED light strip off of Amazon and ran 2 strips under the gantry. 12 volt power supply plugged into one of the 110 relay outputs on the control box (relay1). No issues what so ever and I now have a water table for plasma cut…

[image] We just did this at a show with a machine. We used an inexpensive led strip for Amazon that came with some C clips that we were about to bolt to the extrusion. It ran on 110 so we just ran an extension cord through the cable track.

I put one strip of LEDs on the bottom of the gantry not only to help with the dimmed lighting but also to remind me to shut the machine off when I leave the shop. If it’s bright in the back corner when I shut the lights off, the machine electronics are still powered on. I milled a 1/2" thick strip …

Sorry for the delayed response. Thanks for all the pictures and comments. I am going to work on installing mine later this week and I’ll post pictures. Ed

[image] Googs: volt power supply plugged into one of the 110 relay outputs on the control box (relay1). No issues wh @Googs How did I never see those 2 relay outlets on bottom of the control box before!? There they were, right out of view the entire time! Thanks for the heads up on that …

If you don’t want to use the two relays, there are extra general purpose I/O’s on the ESS board that can be used to run a solid state relay. You can pull power for LEDs from one of the 48V DC power supplies (unless you lighting your whole shop with them :-)), or pull from the AC on the control box …

Gantry LED strip lighting

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Gantry LED strip lighting

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