Power Wire Cover - top
| Info | |
|---|---|
| Download: | Sketchup STL |
| Print time | 10h 29m 24s |
| Filament used | 41.58m |
| Filament cost | $2.36 |
| Quantity | 1 |
| Prototypes | 1 |
Wires - they’re ugly! And there are a lot of wires coming out of an ATX power supply. I wanted the lab to stay tidy and I also wanted to ensure that any failed component in the lab could easily be replaced. With these two things in mind, I decided not to cut the wires coming from the power supply to size. Instead, I gathered some ATX extension wires and clipped them into the stock power supply harness. With all those wires hanging out, no amount of twisting/curling them would look tidy. They had to be covered!
While I decided to create a cover for the ATX power wires, I still didn’t want the lab to look especially boring. This cover was designed to kind of mimic a “funnel” of all the power flowing from the ATX PSU to the Relayinator. I also wanted to have some visibility into how well the power rails of the cheap ATX power supply were keeping up with demand for the lab. With that in mind, I added a landing and holes to hold some 3v - 40v voltmeters - one each for the 5v rail and the 12v rail.
The design itself was simple enough. Because this wasn’t a part that needed to hold a rigid object or fit super precicely, only one prototype was needed so long as the lugs on this part fit well into the openings on the bottom. The harder part of the designw as wrestling with Sketchup to intersect the “landing” and the “funnel” in a sane way that didn’t mangle the design. Once that was sorted, it was an easy print.
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