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Building a Ring light for a stereo microscope.

I machined some Plexiglas and built a ring of 32 LEDs to illuminate my stereo microscope.

Alan KilianAlan Kilian
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This project was created on 03/14/2014 and last updated 5 years ago.

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Machining plexiglas and wiring strings of surfacemount LEDs to make a ring light for a stereo microscope.

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  • Going on a couple of years and I still love this ring light.

    Alan Kilian • 02/09/2015 at 16:54 • 0 comments

    I've been using this for the SMT Transistor clock assembly and I really wouldn't change anything about it.

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estraaven wrote 03/16/2014 at 13:47 • point
What kind of led have you used?
Volt? mAh? Lumen? Thanks

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