Overhead Stand for a Red Light Therapy Panel
A four-leg stand that holds a therapy panel face-down so the user can lie beneath it — designed around the panel's existing anchor points, printable and demountable.
An ER nurse bought a red light therapy panel hoping it would help a family member’s chronic fatigue — and found that every stand on the market either holds the panel upright, or is too flimsy, too bulky or too expensive to hold it face-down.
The problem
Turning a panel to face the floor changes the structural problem completely:
- The load goes overhead. A panel above a person lying down must be unambiguously secure — this is the requirement that outranks everything else.
- Existing stands are the wrong shape, so the design had to start from the panel rather than from a stand and be adapted.
- The panel already has anchor points. Several of them, which is an opportunity: the mounting can use what the manufacturer provided instead of clamping the housing.
- Reconfigurable legs. The client wanted the rear legs removable and re-attachable at the top of the panel so it can be flipped to face downward.
- It had to be 3D printable, since this was a one-off for a family member, not a production run.
The approach
- Mount into the anchor points, so load transfers into the panel’s own structure rather than into a clamp that grips a plastic case.
- A saddle-style bracket carrying the panel, with the printed legs attaching to that saddle — separating the interface from the structure so either can be revised alone.
- Legs designed for print orientation, with sections aligned so layer lines run across the load rather than along a potential fracture path.
- Symmetric attachment at both positions, so the same legs serve upright and face-down configurations without duplicate parts.
The result
A complete stand design with printable parts, mounting saddle and reconfigurable leg attachment.
Where this applies
Brackets, mounts and stands for equipment that was never designed to be held that way — especially where the load ends up over a person.
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