FPV transmitter bench box

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I was looking for a box to put a small vtx in to use on the bench that would keep all the wires together- came across the Tevo mosfet box- Thank you Razzerback for the initial design- and used that as a starting point. I raised the standoffs in the interior corners and removed the dimples for the mosfet board holes. Then I designed a new bed to act as a shelf- so the wires can go underneath and the vtx can sit on top and be zip tied to it with the shelf is easily removable. Then modified the lid to have a vertical wall that a camera can be mounted to with holes for wires to go back down into the box. Planning on using an Eachine mini vtx, so the antenna will just stick out the non fan end. The enclosure has room for a slip in 30mm fan at one end to keep everything cool. Going to use a bec and power it from a 2s lipo. I was working on setting up micro minimosds for fpv flying wings, and the whole process from camera focusing to programming the osd was a pain in the but trying to do inside the model. and thought it would be nice to have a bench vtx that I could work on that had everything out in the open, but was compact and a single unit that I could easily hook stuff up to. Will upload pics when it is done. 12.11.17... so my heater element burned out 99% of the way through printing the box, but it looks good- the shelf needs to be a few mm wider and as mentioned earlier 3mm thick instead of 5... and I expect I will want to make a few more tweaks once all the guts come in the mail this week- perhaps a tray to hold a 2s lipo - i plan on running the connector out the round hole on the side of the box, so perhaps some sort of tray there. I want the box to sit flat on a surface but be able to pick it up when powered and move it around. 12.15.17... heater element comes today, but got fan yesterday and made a couple of changes to the box- moved the hole in the side down and made it bigger so that I can get the wire to fit through with a jst connector on it, I made the tabs that hold the fan in a little longer, and added 2 channels at the bottom of the fan space for the wire to pass through. also added some additional holes on that face of the box- I figure I will use a velcro strap to hold the battery on on that side. Also closed in the open side on the bed, but left that gap a little bigger for wires to pass through. 12.18.2017- so printed out the last version and realized a couple of things. 1) The hole in the side of the box wasn't big enough for the jst connector to fit through. 2) The design for the lid was a little too elaborate and not as sturdy as I wanted. Turns out that all I needed was a 3mm hole in the lid for a screw to hold down a runcam mount, so I have simplifed the lid to have just the cable passthroughs and that hole. The picture of the actual thing made is of the next to the last design, It works well enough for me, but I took the learnings from putting it together detailed above and made the mods to end up with the final design.