Wire Cage Cover And Bracket Assembly for Arduino Mega+Ramps on Makerfarm i3v 10" Printer

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Update: 6/17/16 Make sure you have enough ventilation for the electronics using this cover, or else they could overheat and fail. I've stopped using this design until I find a better way to add some cooling to the electronics. I've been searching for a solution to cover my wires around the Arduino Mega + Ramps on the right side of my printer for quite some time now. After making the wood bracket for my LCD screen, I realized I could use the same idea on the side. I started out with just making the middle cover and then decided to do the whole side. You can cover just the middle section, top & middle or middle & bottom of your printer using this design. I believe there is enough ventilation with hex holes on the covers to not need a fan, but I added possible mount to the bottom bracket in the best place I could find for it out of the way of the wires. I just finished a 14 hour print with no extra fan and it didn't have any problems. After I installed this design as always happens, I can see a couple of things I would change. I had forgot to connect the USB before putting these covers on and was not able to get it installed without taking that middle cover off. I added an optional cover to this set to give access to that, so you will not have that same problem. Putting the bolts on the inside hole covers is a bit of a challenge and I left the bottom one off. You will need to use needle nose pliers to get those on. If I redo this design, I will probably change those inside connections to be a slot of some sort instead of bolts. When installing this design, you of course want to unplug your machine first. I used M3x14mm socket bolts on the cover and 1 M3x16mm socket bolt to connect the Middle Upper bracket to the frame. That bracket rests on the top of the electronics which pretty much holds everything in place vertically without bolting down. You should get your bolts and nuts out ahead of time, so you will know whether one or more is missing and possibly hiding in the electronics somewhere. When installing this design, I had the best luck with starting at the bottom and working my way up. Also make sure that none of your wires are in the way of any of the parts being installed. I printed all these parts in PETG with 20% infill. There are four brackets to print and three covers. Print Brackets: MF_i3v10_RightCover_TopBracket_Rev27.stl MF_i3v10_RightCover_MiddleTopBracket_Rev27.stl (Print this first to check fit & frame hole) MF_i3v10_RightCover_MiddleBottomBracket_Rev27.stl MF_i3v10_RightCover_BottomBracket_Rev27.stl (If you do not want Fan mount) MF_i3v10_RightCover_BottomBracketWithFanMount_Rev27.stl (Option if you want Fan mount) MF_i3v10_Right_TopCoverPlate_Rev27.stl (Print this cover first if you want to test fit) MF_i3v10_Right_MiddleCoverPlate_Rev27.stl (If you do not want USB Access Hole) MF_i3v10_Right_MiddleCoverPlate_USB_Access_Rev27.stl (If you want USB Access Hole) MF_i3v10_Right_BottomCoverPlate_Rev27.stl If you just want to use just the middle cover, you only need to print three parts. MF_i3v10_RightCover_MiddleTopBracket_Rev27.stl MF_i3v10_RightCover_MiddleBottomBracket_Rev27.stl MF_i3v10_Right_MiddleCoverPlate_Rev27.stl (If you Do Not want USB Acces Hole) MF_i3v10_Right_MiddleCoverPlate_USB_Access_Rev27.stl (If you want USB Access Hole) The middle and bottom covers took the longest to print. The middle cover took over four hours, but I used Archimedean Chords for Top/Bottom fill & 3D Honeycomb for fill pattern which I thought made it look nicer. I also included the openscad files of these, which give you the ability to change it a little more. I used the Arduino Mega and 40mm fan from this reference in the assembly: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:820960