The lights in the room where I reload are terrible for reloading. I have just a standard ceiling fan light in a small bedroom and I couldnt see what I was doing under the shadow created by me or the press. I should probably sell these, but I have decided to post it as the whole point of reloading is to save money...
Here are the pictures of the finished product
In this picture, there are no other lights on in the room.
Here are the before (or at least lights off) pictures
Here are some more details on how.
These are the lights, you can cut the string where marked, every 3rd light.
I ordered mine from a guy on ebay, not sure if the forum rules here will let me post his link, but you can pm me for it.
The rest is basically layout. the lights are adhesive backed, the connections are soddered and all the terminals / connections are covered in shrink wrap. You can run them from a battery pack of 8 AA batteries (available at Radio Shack for about $3. Mine run on an adapter that I found that puts out 12V (really any 12v adapter will work, so find an extra laying around and use it). I cut the end off the adapter and used its own wire for most of my project wire. I added an inline switch to the cord in back of the press (mostly because I had it on hand).
The lights are directional, but I am thinking of adding a strip down the closest arm of the frame. The nice thing about these, is that they stay with the frame rather than trying to shine down through the toolhead hole.
Enjoy.
Here are the pictures of the finished product
In this picture, there are no other lights on in the room.
Here are the before (or at least lights off) pictures
Here are some more details on how.
These are the lights, you can cut the string where marked, every 3rd light.
I ordered mine from a guy on ebay, not sure if the forum rules here will let me post his link, but you can pm me for it.
The rest is basically layout. the lights are adhesive backed, the connections are soddered and all the terminals / connections are covered in shrink wrap. You can run them from a battery pack of 8 AA batteries (available at Radio Shack for about $3. Mine run on an adapter that I found that puts out 12V (really any 12v adapter will work, so find an extra laying around and use it). I cut the end off the adapter and used its own wire for most of my project wire. I added an inline switch to the cord in back of the press (mostly because I had it on hand).
The lights are directional, but I am thinking of adding a strip down the closest arm of the frame. The nice thing about these, is that they stay with the frame rather than trying to shine down through the toolhead hole.
Enjoy.
