{"id":9781,"date":"2022-11-13T16:22:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T00:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=9781"},"modified":"2022-11-13T16:42:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T00:42:21","slug":"12-aa-battery-tray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2022\/11\/13\/12-aa-battery-tray\/","title":{"rendered":"12 AA Battery Tray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a 3D printed AA battery tray I made that I&#8217;m happy with. I couldn&#8217;t find it to buy, so I made it on my 3D printer.<\/p>\n<p>Batteries are easy to drop into place and pick up, they don\u2019t roll around at all in their trays or in the drawer, and I can stack batteries on top of them neatly. My friend Devon had printed several versions of battery holders for me a while back and they were pretty good, but what I really wanted was THIS. So I made it.<\/p>\n<p>Designed in TinkerCAD. The 12 batteries each sit 0.5mm apart in cylindrical nests at a 1 degree angle which gives the bottom an attractive design on my FDM printer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-AA-Battery-Tray.zip\">12 AA Battery Tray.stl (zipped)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-AA-battery-holder-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9783\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-AA-battery-holder-307x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-AA-battery-holder-307x600.jpg 307w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-AA-battery-holder-154x300.jpg 154w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-AA-battery-holder-61x120.jpg 61w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-AA-battery-holder-768x1499.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-AA-battery-holder-787x1536.jpg 787w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-AA-battery-holder-1050x2048.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-AA-battery-holder-26x50.jpg 26w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-AA-battery-holder-scaled.jpg 1312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-battery-tray-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9747 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-battery-tray-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-battery-tray-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-battery-tray-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-battery-tray-90x120.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-battery-tray-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-battery-tray-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-battery-tray-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-battery-tray-38x50.jpg 38w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-battery-tray-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-battery-tray-tinkercad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9748 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-battery-tray-tinkercad-600x463.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-battery-tray-tinkercad-600x463.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-battery-tray-tinkercad-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-battery-tray-tinkercad-120x93.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-battery-tray-tinkercad-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-battery-tray-tinkercad-50x39.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12-battery-tray-tinkercad.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a 3D printed AA battery tray I made that I&#8217;m happy with. I couldn&#8217;t find it to buy, so I made it on my 3D printer. Batteries are easy to drop into place and pick up, they don\u2019t roll around at all in their trays or in the drawer, and I can stack batteries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9790,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions\/9790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}