Note: This right-side LED housing brings much-needed light to the chamber, but it can cause glare for the built-in chamber camera. You may prefer to use the left-side LED housing to mount your LED strips on the left-side to prevent glare.

Suggested Parts:

• Pair this with a relay module in a Relay Module Mount.
• One or Two (Qty 2) 8mm-wide, 200mm-long COB LED strips
• Two (Qty 2) M3x6m (or longer) socket head cap screws
• Two (Qty 2) M3 Hex Nuts or Two (Qty 2) M3 Square Nuts
• Hook-up wire (~24 AWG)

This is an LED housing that mounts to the right-side shelf, above the Z-axis lead screw mount, of the P1 series (P1S, P1P). It is designed for one or two 8mm-wide, 200mm-long COB LED strips. Use this to replace or augment the stock LED strip.

With more light, you will be able to see your models more clearly inside the chamber, but it can cause glare when viewing the built-in chamber camera.

There are two options for the M3 nuts – square or hex. In the print profile, there is a pause inserted at the beginning of layer 29 (4.40mm). Insert the appropriate nuts into the two cavities and continue the print. The bridging/overhang may not be so clean in the layer above the nuts, but the print should recover and it is in the interior of the model where it will be unseen. There will also be some artifacts from the thin wall between the hole and the LED mounting surface, but the LED strip will cover it up nicely.

You will need two (qty 2) M3x6mm (or longer) socket head cap screws to attach the mount onto the printer's metal frame.

The LED strips can be attached to the vertical and the angled surfaces.

IMPORTANT: Powering the LEDs. You can power it directly from the AP board's LED connector if you are only using a single LED strip and not in parallel with the stock LED Strip. This connector can only supply up to 300mA of current, so best to measure power consumption of your LED strips and use your judgement. (https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/p1/troubleshooting/p1p-led-failture)

For most people, who will run with two strips, or even a single strip in addition to the stock LED strip, I suggest using the LED connector to activate a relay to power the LED from the USB-A port from the AP board. The USB-A port can supply 1.5A of current. I have also designed a mount for a popular, generic, relay module (they are available at Amazon, eBay, AliExpress, etc.). Another option is to power it externally, but you will not have control over the LED via Bambu Studio or the Bambu Handy app.

Note: I believe X1 Series' Micro-Lidar unit will interfere with anything mounted in this location, so this will not work with those printers.