Rita's Mini Fairy Lights | LED pendent | LED-Lichterkette Rita

This started as a repair job when a diffusor of a mini led fairy lights was missing.

Now you can build your own mini fairy lights with this light blub like diffusor!

Features

• fits standard leaded LEDs, 5 mm or smaller (inner rim holds 5 mm LEDs in place)
• assembly with plug (press fit) or hot glue
• glows nicely like a mini light bulb (0.8 mm wall thickness)
• prints fast

Printing

• General Setting: 0,2 mm layer height, ‘speed’ setting for prusa slicer
• Perimeter: 
  • 2 perimeter for diffusor
  • 2 or 3 for plug
• white or transparent PLA or PETG
• I printed with white eSun PLA an compensated for shrinking with 103.6% scaling.

Assembly

• solder LEDs on wires
• cover LED with the diffusor
• press plug into buttom of diffusor or hot glue LED in place

Electrical / driving the LEDs

It's best to use a LED driver board or plug to drive a string of LEDs (connected in series). The original fairy lights had 50 LEDs in 2 serial strings, so according to the label on the plug roughly 60 mA per string.
Search for ‘Fairy Lights Power Supply’ (deutsch: “LED Lichterketten Netzteil”).