I have just recently completed building myself a couple of light boxes and I am very pleased with the results. If anyone is interested in me building one for them, PM me and I can discuss price etc, one thing is for sure, they are going to be at least a third of the price of imported ones, and IMHO work just as well. The two attached images will give you some sort of idea of my construction. My method of construction allowes the light box to fit over the front of the telescope/dew shield, much like a cover so one does not need to balance it on the scope.
I use a 12v lighter type connector for the power, and each LED is rated at between 6000mcd and 12000mcd depending on the size of the box required.
If interested please feel free to ask any questions.
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Ok got your information, have replied, nothing heard back, so assume you are not interested. Would be nice to receive acknowledgement of receipt of quote. This is the trend now days..
Could you send me a price for a plane wave 14 box. It will have to be very dim, as I use a petal type shutter which shows up as an artifact in shot exposures.
Just to put a word in for Peter, I ordered a light box from him shortly after Christmas last year.
To my surprise, the box was made, packaged and shipped on or around New Year's. I certainly didn't expect him to give up holiday time like that.
Now that I have things (mostly) worked out, the box is invaluable for getting proper flats taken. All I have to do now is find where the dust bunnies are and evict them from my gear!
Just bumping up. If you are interested, please have the decency to reply to my responses one way or another, I note that this is becoming very common for people to not acknowledge my response and I feel this is just very unprofessional.
Hi Peter,
Can I ask for quote for one of your lightboxes for a Skywatcher Esprit 100mm Triplet refractor?
I can probably pick it up rather than you posting it.
Thank you
Theo