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Step 14Mointing the Mail Light
The eMail Light will mount on the back of one of my LCD displays. I modified a straight stock aluminum bar for this.
The bar needed a short 1″ section bent. This I did by putting the bar in a vise brake.
The bent section of the aluminum bar will be screwed to the plastic box.
On the bent 1″ section of the bar I tapped a #4-40 hole. One half of the plastic box – the half without parts – will have a little hole in it for the screw. I also drilled holes of appropriate size and spacing on the long part of the aluminum bar for mounting on the back of my LCD monitor.
The plastic box half was tightly attached to the aluminum bracket and then the box was reassembled.
Mounted under my monitor and plugged in to USB, I was able to use the USBmicro output test application to verify that the regular LEDs were visible from a sitting position at my desk, and that the super-bright LEDs facing “back” were easily visible in my lab.
The bar needed a short 1″ section bent. This I did by putting the bar in a vise brake.
The bent section of the aluminum bar will be screwed to the plastic box.
On the bent 1″ section of the bar I tapped a #4-40 hole. One half of the plastic box – the half without parts – will have a little hole in it for the screw. I also drilled holes of appropriate size and spacing on the long part of the aluminum bar for mounting on the back of my LCD monitor.
The plastic box half was tightly attached to the aluminum bracket and then the box was reassembled.
Mounted under my monitor and plugged in to USB, I was able to use the USBmicro output test application to verify that the regular LEDs were visible from a sitting position at my desk, and that the super-bright LEDs facing “back” were easily visible in my lab.
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