Nitecore Battery Bank Cap for Gen 1

A cap for the original version of the Nitecore NB10000 battery banks to prevent accidental button presses.
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The Nitecore power banks have a bug where if you press and hold the power button they enter a lockout/hibernation mode.  The mode can only be cleared by charging the power bank, which is not possible if this is your only power source, although I have heard you can get them out of the hibernation mode by charging with another power bank.  

@BenFriesen_571729 worked out a great design to for the Gen 2 power bank.  The Gen 1 has the power button in a different place.  I reworked his design to accommodate that. This design fully covers the power button and has a recess so that it can't possibly be pressed.  It's also slightly tighter than the original, but, since the dimensions on the power banks vary a little, you still may have to play with the scaling a bit to get a perfect fit.  

Weighs less than 2g.  Print with PETG.  With parts that have a narrow wall like this, I like to set the outer perimeter wider than the wall, e.g. 1mm, so that it prints as a single perimeter, but standard PETG settings should work just as well. 

Thanks Ben for the great design.  

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Model origin

The author remixed this model.

Differences of the remix compared to the original

This is reworked to accommodate the power button location on the original (Gen 1) version of the Nitecore NB10000 and modified dimensions to fit a little more tightly.  

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