Wireless charging adapter for pre-refresh S - 3D print

[LarryC]

I could not find a reasonably priced aftermarket adapter bracket to allow wireless iPhone charging in my 2020 LR S. I didn't think a 3-D printed part should cost $130-$160 so I looked to Thingiverse. I found a design that is modeled after the original Tesla adapter and uses an Apple MagSafe charger. That design, while very nicely done, does not work with iPhone 13/14 Pros because of the camera lens bump on those phones, and it did not fit well with the all-black Amazon charger I wanted to use - the charger was very slightly too deep and wide. I did a remix of that design and, after a couple of revisions, now have a design that should work for virtually all iPhones (at least it does for my 14 Pro and my wife's SE - pretty much the spectrum of sizes. Total cost: about $15 for printing filament, electricity and the charger. If anyone is interested, and has a 3D printer, look for "Tesla Wireless Charger Adapter for iPhone 13/14/pro" on Thingiverse. I think this will work on 2012-2020 Model S. I hope this helps someone.

Sorry, though, I don't sell 3D prints.

 

[Yelobird]

Looks good well done making a solution. Only suggestion (if you didn’t) make sure to use ABS filament at the minimum as PLA will warp badly with just a minimal temperature in the car.

 

[LarryC]

Thanls and I agree on the ABS. I made the one in the photo, and the previous design tests, with PLA+. I plan to see how it performs in my car, that is rarely left in the sun. If it doesn't last, I'll make another out of ABS.

 

[2Stripes]

This looks awesome and is very similar to what I have been looking for, and in fact recently posted asking if someone had such a file.

What do you use to edit the file with? Is your stl file editable? I was looking to create exactly the same thing but to allow a quadlock mag wireless charging head to be mounted. It's circular so would go exactly where you have the circular cutout for the magsafe charger but it'll obviously be a different size, so I'd like to change the size/shape of the hole. Wondering how it's best to do it

 

[LarryC]

The stl is technically not editable, but I started with an stl file off Thingiverse and modified it in TInkercad adding solid and negative-space objects to enlarge the hole to fit my charger, and a few other mods to better fit the charger cord in the back side. If you're clever with Tinkercad, you can make a lot of mods to an non-editable stl. PM me and I'll send a link to a shared version on Tinkercad where you can undo or alter the changes I made and fine tune it to your liking.

By the way, it's been 4 monhts now and the adapter still works perfectly, even as PLA+, though my car is typically garaged so the adapter is never in direct sunlight.

 

[2Stripes]

That's awesome, thanks so much. Figured it must be non editable. New to 3d modelling so any help much appreciated.