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07E Laser Box Build
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I wanted to try something a bit different than what I've seen and done for laser hosts, so I went browsing for project boxes and found a really nice alu extrusion box and picked it up. I was planning on originally making this just a lab style laser mounted to a heatsink, but I had a better idea. Portable "laser box". The most difficult thing about this build is the fact that it was all one piece, so I'd have to shove my fingers in the box if I needed to get at something, otherwise all the wiring was done through the mounting holes.
Also, this post counts as my 1000th post, making me an LPF vet! ...Right?
This is the best fitting piece I could find, for the heatsink. This is before cut to size.
Here's the heatsink cut to size, just with a bandsaw. Notice the Sanwu BE as I was tasting for how much clearance I could get for the adapter inside of the box without hitting the button. Turns out the adapter had to stay outside of the box for the most part.
A look at some of the wiring, definitely an annoying part to this build because of the lack of access. You can see in this shot I'm testing different parts of the circuit. You might also realize that I had the holes drilled and the switch in place.
My solution for the contact board was this piece of wood, a couple of bolts/nuts/washers with just the tension holding the springs in place. This turned out a lot nicer than I though.
This is the battery bay I designed on Sketchup, I ended up 3d printing it because the tolerances were way to tight to create with tools. At a couple points the walls were smaller than a mm. This takes 2*18350 batteries.
Final shots
You might notice that there are black spacers between the project box and the center button, this is because the depth of the button is too big for the actual box.
I'll be adding more shots later but that's all for now. :beer:
-Sean (E.P.)
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I wanted to try something a bit different than what I've seen and done for laser hosts, so I went browsing for project boxes and found a really nice alu extrusion box and picked it up. I was planning on originally making this just a lab style laser mounted to a heatsink, but I had a better idea. Portable "laser box". The most difficult thing about this build is the fact that it was all one piece, so I'd have to shove my fingers in the box if I needed to get at something, otherwise all the wiring was done through the mounting holes.
Also, this post counts as my 1000th post, making me an LPF vet! ...Right?
This is the best fitting piece I could find, for the heatsink. This is before cut to size.
Here's the heatsink cut to size, just with a bandsaw. Notice the Sanwu BE as I was tasting for how much clearance I could get for the adapter inside of the box without hitting the button. Turns out the adapter had to stay outside of the box for the most part.
A look at some of the wiring, definitely an annoying part to this build because of the lack of access. You can see in this shot I'm testing different parts of the circuit. You might also realize that I had the holes drilled and the switch in place.
My solution for the contact board was this piece of wood, a couple of bolts/nuts/washers with just the tension holding the springs in place. This turned out a lot nicer than I though.
This is the battery bay I designed on Sketchup, I ended up 3d printing it because the tolerances were way to tight to create with tools. At a couple points the walls were smaller than a mm. This takes 2*18350 batteries.
Final shots
You might notice that there are black spacers between the project box and the center button, this is because the depth of the button is too big for the actual box.
I'll be adding more shots later but that's all for now. :beer:
-Sean (E.P.)
