Standalone Non-Modular Meanwell PSU Cover with USB Charger
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This is a remix of https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3375023 by vzero1. I'm keeping the license as "attribution", but really I mean that vzero1 should be attributed. I don't consider this remix to be significant enough to deserve any attribution for this remix in particular, but figured I'd post it since it might save someone else time. When I printed the vzero1 non-modular variant for standalone use, I found the back wall was a little fragile as-printed (snapped in half on me while I was trying to remove internal support material), so I made that back wall a tad thicker. I also figured it'd make sense to extend one of the interior faces down at ~45 degrees to avoid the internal support material, so I did that too. The re-print with those changes worked great and is holding a power supply powering a couple raspberry pi(s) via an Anker car charger, with a car audio capacitor, a power resistor, and some diodes set up to be a sort of pseudo low-runtime UPS just for the raspberry pis for surviving my main UPS's questionable handling of under-volts coming in from the utility sometimes / generator glitches. Printing long prints in the winter around here when the wind is dropping branches on power lines can be extra fun... I'm using this standalone, but I'd recommend some degree of support in that usage, like a zip tie to something sturdy, since it can be a bit top-heavy and tippy without that. Also, if you're planning to cram a bunch of stuff in there in addition to a 12V socket and power inlet, you might want to remix further to add more space inside before you print; a power resistor + 2 diodes was already a very tight fit on top of the default stuff. In case anyone is curious, I did the tweaks in blender with some vertex/face editing, then used PrusaSlicer to repair the damage with netfab since that was way easier than getting the editing to be a perfect manifold, then re-exported as STL to mostly hide my questionable editing "technique". In case you look closely, I'm sure there's some leftover evidence of my questionable editing, but at least it shouldn't complain about mesh errors. :-)
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