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Nice mount.
The motor will drive well off the powerpack that you made for use for your Nichai UV light. Double utility.
You can use an LED [illuminator] off that powerpack as well but you will need a dropper circuit to reduce to 3v for the LED.
Just reviewing the thread, I had clean forgotten this post. Many thanks JK, that is a perfect solution.
One of the snags I have encountered has been that I have been using a 12 Volt lead acid golf trolley battery which is heavy, somewhat fragile and not particularly easy to connect onto, requiring spanner and screwdriver to connect the wires. I don't like the idea of having a powerful battery with loose trailing wires which are live. A recipe for fire.
I will make up a lead for the purpose. It's an XLR plug which avoids the possibility of connecting anything other than suitable into the power pack.
As for the illuminator I found a cheap copy Chinese illuminator off of eBay which fits perfectly and does the job nicely. It's only needed at set-up so then it's put away in the box. The button battery last for ages, provided I remember to turn it off, it's one of those devices which would benefit with an auto off circuit.
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Robert.