NightmareMoon
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I've got this nice Galaxy Tab A 8" Tablet and a good RAM dock for it, but I need some ideas for how to securely mount it to the interior of the car. The tablet w/ dock and a 6" RAM extension arm is nearly 2 lbs, so its pretty heavy and mounting it to anything with flex to it isn't working out.
I'm planning on using this Tablet for telemetry data when autocrossing or tracking the car, so I really need a good hard place in the cabin to do a hard-mount. Its going to see hard bumps at high speed and near constant G forces in excess of 1g.
Tried one of the RAM sticky ball mounts and it lasted oh, maybe 5-8 minutes at speed on the track before the G forces won over the sticky tape and it flopped into the passenger footwell.
Where's a good place to find a hard piece of metal rigidly connected to the car which I can bolt into to get a ball mount securely in place, ideally near the infotainment area, center console or dash? Seems like everything near the driver is plastic or padded. Where's some hard metal under there that I can use to securely mount a RAM ball mount?
My fallback is going to be a piece of wood to mount the tablet dock which I can shape and velcro in place over top of the Ford navigation unit, but I'm not thrilled about rocking the velcro on my dash 24/7.
I'm planning on using this Tablet for telemetry data when autocrossing or tracking the car, so I really need a good hard place in the cabin to do a hard-mount. Its going to see hard bumps at high speed and near constant G forces in excess of 1g.
Tried one of the RAM sticky ball mounts and it lasted oh, maybe 5-8 minutes at speed on the track before the G forces won over the sticky tape and it flopped into the passenger footwell.
Where's a good place to find a hard piece of metal rigidly connected to the car which I can bolt into to get a ball mount securely in place, ideally near the infotainment area, center console or dash? Seems like everything near the driver is plastic or padded. Where's some hard metal under there that I can use to securely mount a RAM ball mount?
My fallback is going to be a piece of wood to mount the tablet dock which I can shape and velcro in place over top of the Ford navigation unit, but I'm not thrilled about rocking the velcro on my dash 24/7.
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