Enclosure to hide Miller sign circuit board

I used a Radio shack project box and painted it to be a commercial trash container with my sons name on it

Michaels craft stores sell small plastic boxes that can be modified to hold the board. This is great for "on the ground" mounted signs. Don's roof top ideas are spot on for roof top signs. I have made roof stairwells and skylights to hold the boards and batteries. Pigion coops could also work.

 

Paul Goodness

I just finished making two boxes out of bass wood and painted them black. Extremely simple rectangular box. I'm running them on the millers dc converter. This way I can swap around. I made one larger one that runs on the batteries. I can pick it up and move anywhere. The batteries last quite awhile if you can remember to turn them off...I often forget.

 

All I do is make a small slit in the roof to allow the contact portion of the sign slip through. The connecting cord then attaches to the sign from underneath the roof. With the five support  pieces added, you don't even see the slit. I have 9 signs done this way and it is very simple and clean looking.

They also sell small unfinished wooden boxes, which I have used for battery operated Miller signs.

Great ideas.  Thanks to everyone for giving me lots of options.  I've got a variety of buildings including a roundhouse that are getting the signs so I can see a good solution for each of them.

 

Thanks,

Ed

I don't see these 2 examples of mine being useful for roof tops but thought I would show you 2 of the items mentioned above which I used last year to make bases.  Both the wood box and the cardboard circular box were from Michael's.

 

- walt

 

 This was a jewelry box for $1.  I removed the hinges and front hasp lock.  I also cut out the screen.  I landed up having to widen the opening around the perimeter.  The part with the screen became the bottom of the base which I glued to the main body of the box.  I then sliced a hole thru the top of the glued base (the top is actually the bottom of the box as shown in this picture).  I do NOT use the battery holder so it was snipped off.  There was barely enough room to fit everything.

 

 

This is the round cardboard container.  To lower the base, which had plenty of room to hold everything, I cut off a ring to lower it.  Then a 2nd one to lower it some more.  Finally did a 3rd one to lower it yet again.  I used the lid, shown here, as the base after I painted it concrete color (it's not painted yet in this picture).