What do you think of this upgrade??
My friend installed one, incredibly bright, easy to install, uses the second AMS port and relatively inexpensive.
Yeh its a very cheap upgrade that has a big impact.
However, one thing I’ve just noticed - as it uses the built in light to activate the sensor you can remotely switch the light on and off via the Bambu Studio or Handy app as normal, and it will in turn switch the entire LED strip on or off - but it kinda drowns out the camera image if you do use the remote camera at the same time since the LEDs are right next to it and quite bright.
Doesn’t both me as I never use the camera anyways, but something to bear in mind if you do!
Would be nice to try to wire in a small dimmer switch - not sure if thats possible with these LEDs though…
I picked up a set from aliexpress for my A1 Mini and its been great. Had them running 24/7 for 3 weeks now and been fine so far. Only issue I found was the adhesive for the strip was poor. But a little double sided tape worked fine.
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I just bought one, and the adhesive on both the strip and sensor is weak. They also sent a strip of black tape, which wasn’t sticky either.
@3DG_YouTube What double-sided tape did you use? Everything I have doesn’t seem to stick well either.
Sorry i probably wasnt clear. The double sided tape I used was the gel type. Its almost like a thick sticky silicon…sticks to everything. Search for VHB tape if you cant find it
Hope that helps
The Panda strip is nice and bright - but the adhesive is a bad joke.
I removed it completely and used 3M VHB tape too.
Very reliable and strong tape for sure.
On a slightly related subject…
Some VHB tape won’t stick that well to PLA, unless you use 94 primer or buy 3M VHB LSE Series tape, it is a low surface energy tape, 3M LSE-160WF.
Info here https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1732017O/3m-vhb-tape-design-guide-en.pdf
Or call 3M, they are very helpful.
FYI I don’t work for 3M, but I do use their products.
Hi @3DG_YouTube !
I see you also mounted the camera outwards. Can you please tell me what did you do with the light sensor that came with the LED strip? Did you just eliminate it, and plugged the LED strip straight into the power outlet, is it always on?
Thanks in advance,
Levi
Can you give me a close up capture for the PCB (circuit board)? I need to study the circuit setup used. I’m planning to build my own. Thanks!
PCB is hot glued inside a 3d printed case, can’t really see much of it without breaking it.
is the pcb exposed atleast? I just need some detailes in the components used. I see some exposed electronics part in some photos of it but to pixelated to even get clues.
oh. It using photodiode. thanks !
Gonna reverse engineer it later.
too bad can’t read the label 