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Tricklaser sells an LED light ring and a top hat light to let you know when the hot end is heating. I wasn't able to find instructions, so I just wanted to double check if anyone has installed these.
I'm in the middle of wiring my hot end and I was planning on joining the pigtails of the top hat to the wires going to the heat resistor. And for the light ring, I was thinking of wiring them into the PEEK fan. Sound good to you guys?

That's how I have mine wired. Heat indicator goes to the heat circuit, and the lights are on the fan. Works great.

Okay thanks, that's what I thought, but for some reason I was concerted more power would be going to the heater block and overload the LEDs.

Nope, the board has resistors to adjust the current and voltage for the LEDs. It's a small enough load that the heating circuit shouldn't even notice.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/IunRb88.jpg?1[/img]

That is correct.
Thanks Jim.


Just to be clear, the heat indicator is wired in parallel with the heating resistors and the polarity does matter. red +, black -

The platform light ring can be powered with same power as the peek fan.
Or, I like to run a separate 12v power from the main PSU and put in a switch so I can turn it off. ( Any yellow & black from PSU is 12v )



I think people do not realize how handy a simple heating indicator is. You will love it.
See it in action here https://youtu.be/b3wqlp8zsQc
They are ON SALE (pretty inexpensive) http://www.tricklaser.com/LED-hot-end-h ... ED-HAT.htm

Thanks for the clarification guys, I'm a noob at this. I already broke my LED light ring by over tightening it, just to give you an example at how noob I am. I failed to put the nylon standoffs (didn't really know what they were for) and the ring cracked. Hopefully a warning for other noobs out there.