This is probably a stupid question but I was wondering if they sell a stand alone ceiling mount (as opposed to using a light truss clamp) to securely mount my rather heavy[ish] laser to the stud behind my standard drywall ceiling in my house. IÂ’m going to be using this laser in a location where a full truss would take up too much space and look out of sorts.

My first idea was to simply fabricate a mount from steel and drill it out with my drill press. And because I have a 14Â’ ceiling I would weld a length of square tube to the mount to drop the laser down to the appropriate height for level projection. And then weld a threaded end onto the square tube and simply attach it to the laser.

😂 Then it dawned on me that having the laser drop so far from the ceiling that a tall guest might (unlikely) bump his head on it. So that got me into thinking that I could finally use a very powerful linear actuator that I originally intended to use for access to a ceiling hatch and instead mount it to a fabricated ceiling mount and then to the laser. I could control the actuator via a simple primitive polarity switching circuit. Or, most likely via an Arduino nano. Then I got thinking about pan and tilt. I mean if IÂ’m going to go this far why not at least be able to control the laser like a moving head 😂. Would you guys fabricate a static cage like mount at the end of the actuator that suspends the laser in the center. And then use large servos to pan the laser? Or would a stepper motor work best (rotary screw)? And for tilt would you use servos or a smaller linear actuator.

BEST CASE SCENARIO WOULD BE FOR YOU TO JUST SEND ME A LINK TO A PLAIN VANILLA CEILING MOUNT STATIC SOLUTION THAT CAN BE EXTENDED DOWN TO PROPER HEIGHT.

Any help would be so appreciated 🙏🙏🙏

regards,

FG