an led edge lit strip of an aligned array of leds on a supporting printed circuit board structure a spring member 40 provides an over center force bias on the snap frame panel 32 so that it is biased open as shown in fig5 or biased closed as shown in fig4 a camming edge of the snap frame panel 32 would be forced against the outer surface of the spring member 40 to create the over centered locations the spring member 40 could be mechanical or have other configurations to facilitate the bias over centered positions an adhesive strip 42 is also attached to the edge light holder 28 to secure a reflecting backlight film sheet 44 the backlight film sheet 44 is formed from a thin acrylic sheet with a reflective coating fig3 discloses a transparent relatively thick plastic backlight panel 46 can be split into right and left hand segments to prevent light leakage between panel segments alternatively a large single piece backlight panel can be used the top edge of the backlight panel is connected to led light sources on the led edge lip strip 38 the light is transmitted downward through the edge of the transparent backlight panel 46 to reflect from the appropriate parallel internal surfaces of the transparent backlight panel 46 by a dispersion section such as an array of dispersion dots 45 printed on the rear surface of backlight panel 46 for.