The Front Panel -- End
The end view of the front panel showing the daughter board behind the main one. Note also the cut-down LED holder used to space the LEDs away from the board. There were several reasons for this. They aligned the bases of the LEDs and buttons but the gap also gave me some play in their final positions (I knew I was going to need to precisely line them up with holes in the front panel). I was also keen to have a little separation between the LEDs and the solder points since I'd had problems in the past with my less-than-perfect soldering cooking LEDs.
The Front Panel -- End
The end view of the front panel showing the daughter board behind the main one. Note also the cut-down LED holder used to space the LEDs away from the board. There were several reasons for this. They aligned the bases of the LEDs and buttons but the gap also gave me some play in their final positions (I knew I was going to need to precisely line them up with holes in the front panel). I was also keen to have a little separation between the LEDs and the solder points since I'd had problems in the past with my less-than-perfect soldering cooking LEDs.