6" Recessed Light Trim and Diffuser

I've never liked how baffles look in a recessed light fixture - I prefer how the retrofit LED fixtures look. However, put these lights in in my basement where I painted the ceiling black so I wanted black trim on the fixture.

Unfortunately I couldn't find any kits with black trim to match the ceiling from brands that I would be confident had truly flicker free lights. So I designed these to work instead.

Be careful to ONLY use LED bulbs as they shouldn't generate the same level of heat as incandescent or halogen will (shouldn't get above 110 F at the heat sync).

Aside from this you just need some torsion springs and a bracket to hold the springs. I scavenged the springs and brackets from some retrofit kits I was getting rid off, so I'm not sure where to buy the brackets. But the springs are all over on amazon.

Watch the bed temp on the diffuser. I found that it had a tendency to lift off the bed when printing and create some really annoying patterns that you could see. Lowering the temp from my normal PLA temp helped.

Once they are both printed - Just use some CA glue and glue them together.

178 mm diameter

35 mm High

Infill set to 20%

Wall thickness is .8 (the main part of the diffuser is 1.6 mm so it will print with no infill to minimize any visible patterns when the light shines on it)

Trim Filament: Inland Black PLA

Trim Bed Temp: 60

Trim Hot End Temp: 210

Diffuser Filament: Ziro Transparent PLA+

Diffuser Bed Temp: 50

Diffuser Hotend Temp: 200