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Steelcable lights GU 5.3

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A 3D-printed light fixture mounted and rigged on steelwire. With GU5.3 lights

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Category
Living Room
License
Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial — NoDerivatives

I printed it myself in PLA, and it has been doing alright for a year now, though because of the temperature, I advise using PETG.

 

Print instructions:
No supports
Infill 100%

 

How to assemble:
Lights:

  1. Screw all the lights together
  2. Resolder longer wires to the lamp bases.
  3. Put the wires through the hole of the fixture, and then through the hole of the rod, make sure there is enough wire length for the lamp to turn and swiffle. 
  4. Attach the light base to the light fixture using some hotglue from the backholes (this worked best for me)
  5. Put the wire in the channel. 
  6. Cut the wire 0.5 cm longer than the plastic rod. Unstrip that last piece and put it in the smaller hole so that the copper touches the steel wire well. This should result in a finished light

Steel rigging:

  1. If you have steel cables that are coated, then uncoat them… … If you find steel cables that aren't please please share a link to them! :). (it takes some elbow grease to take them of nicely, this is the toughest part though ;)
  2. Rig the steel cables in your room, make sure they don't make electrical contact.
  3. Place the light on the steel wire

Electrical box:

  1. Insert the transformer in the ceiling fitting, it should ‘click’ together.
  2. Attach long cables to the output and later connect those to the steelwires
  3. Connect the input side to your neutral and positive/switch wire

 

Parts used to assemble it:
Cables:
Europe: https://amzn.to/3Tx5K5N
North America: https://amzn.to/3zE1vi6

Lamp Base
Europe: https://amzn.to/3MVWlB6
North America: https://amzn.to/47DjnGM

Lights
Europe: https://amzn.to/3ziSICm
North America: https://amzn.to/4dfgAEN

Transformer
Europe: https://amzn.to/47yHare
North America: https://amzn.to/3XBy9Jq
60 watt version gives you enough power for 10 lights, 30 watts only for 5. (Of course, if you buy the 6 watts lights listed above)

Steel cables: (Warning though, the one linked here is sheathed, I had this one unsheated which was an absolute pain in the *ss, can't and couldn't find a similar package that is not sheathed, but if you have more luck, please please, comment the link :) )
Europe: https://amzn.to/3MV6b6A
North America: https://amzn.to/3XQuEzW

Screws:
Europe: https://amzn.to/47C1JTN
North America: https://amzn.to/3XzmjiP


If there are any questions, please feel free to ask me, I might have missed something in this description.

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