I have almost completed building a enclosure for my Shapeoko 4 pro to help with the noise. I built a structure that is 54" wide, 33" deep, and 33" tall. I sandwiched 1 1/2" pink fiber board insulation between 1/4" plywood, with a 2 x 4 wood frame. I have it built, but the lighting I have in it now is flat fluorescent work light that I mounted above. I also plan on putting some type of camera in my enclosure as well. My question is that I think the fluorescent that I have may get too hot for a dusty enclosure. Does anyone have any idea’s what I can use. i had thought about using LED strip lighting. Does anyone have any thoughts?
24V LED strip… Can be powered directly by the Shapeoko power supply.
I believe I used about 4m of LED strip light in my enclosure - but I put a LED dimmer on them to not overload the Shapeoko PSU. Only a couple times I’ve forgotten to dim the lighting a bit when running a job in which the controller reset I believe due to voltage sag when the steppers were pushed hard & the PSU couldn’t keep up.
If the camera is for filming videos, and not just for monitoring, I would strongly recommend avoiding fluorescent lights because of the 60hz flicker they add. High quality LED lighting will be way better. Your best bet would be an LED strip/fixture that works of DC power, since some cheaper LEDs, like those in tube-replacement form factors, will still show some AC flicker.
But also with all the heat, dust, vibration associated with a CNC… I would just go to LEDs no matter what.
