Lamp shade for Cargo Trailer LED pucks
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Acts like frosted glass to disperse the very intense and piercing LED lights in my cargo trailer.
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The LED puck lights in my camper(converted cargo trailer) are a very intense and piercing white light. Mounted on the walls, pretty much everywhere you look is a burning laser of white light straight into your eyes.
Unfortunately the LEDs are solid 1 piece, and do not have a cover I can remove to insert a coffee filter or a piece of lens gel.
I made these “lampshades” to cover the LEDs and to add a kind of frosted glass effect to the LEDs and make them much more tolerable to my eyesight.
I tested several different filament colors and ended up using Glow in the Dark PLA. The semi translucent quality of the Glow filament gave the lights that frosted look I wanted. Regular white PLA toned down the lights way too much, and yellow or amber made the inside of the trailer look like a construction sight (think amber safety flashers).
I used adaptive layer height (prusa Slicer) to get the front part of the shade to have a few more layers, helping give it that frosted look when the LED is on. Standard 0.2mm layer hieght might work just as well, but at only 3 layers I think you will see more “stars” rather than a diffused white light.
I used just a bit of nano double sided tape to secure them in place. Stupid simple design, but it serves the purpose I needed.