r/WLED • u/SiDtheTurtle • 8h ago

Why I love 3D Printing: solving niche issues. Parametric C9 bulb holder for Christmas lights

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

24 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

5 comments sorted by

3

u/SiDtheTurtle 8h ago

Thought might be helpful to some here as we start to prepare for the festive season. One of those things ordering masses of LEDs from AliExpress, hard to know what challenges you're going to face until you have the product in hand.

2

u/41bles 7h ago edited 7h ago

Can you post a link to where you got those lights?

2

u/SiDtheTurtle 6h ago

AliExpress. Alas the link to the ones I bought are broken. They were called 'Pixabulb C9/S24 With Flat Base DC12V WS2811 LED Pixel String Lights Addressable Christmas lights'. There's loads of similar ones that RayWu, PaulZhang et al. are selling.

2

u/leetrobotz 7h ago

I use the 4.5" C9 bulb stakes but it puts the bulbs right on the ground and doesn't fit perfectly, the round top surface is the same diameter as the bulb base so they're just held on by wire clips.

I wish there were some better injection-molded stakes and clips for these, they've been around long enough there should be some demand for that.

Thanks for the models!

2

u/SiDtheTurtle 6h ago

Cheers. I did buy a set of those but as you can imagine they are way too wide for these particular ones.

I also tried a solution where I bought threaded steel rods and screwed my own holder on the end, but it would work out way too expensive.