Seeking Fuso friendly iPad mount

[45lpv]

Who's come up with the silver bullet? I'd like to use an iPad for navigation/mapping duties in the cab of the FG. Has anyone come up with good (or bad for that matter) solutions that they can share with the group?

TIA,

Jim

 

[Decanter]

Ram Mounts does one that bolts to the floor via the seat bolts.

 

[pugslyyy]

Who's come up with the silver bullet? I'd like to use an iPad for navigation/mapping duties in the cab of the FG. Has anyone come up with good (or bad for that matter) solutions that they can share with the group?

TIA,

Jim

I ran a piece of aluminum square tube an inch or two above the dash, and bolt stuff to it using ram mounts.

 

[Czechsix]

I did a ram ball mount right between the seats, for the ipad. Eventually I'll move up up a bit higher, up on the dash. One thing to remember with the ipad though - they really, really don't like heat. As in "time to shut down, case is too hot" kind of behavior. When I do make a dash mount, something that'll spend a bit of its time in direct sunlight, it'll be with a hood and quite possibly a cooling fan built in.

 

[UpperCrust]

I dislike using RAM Mounts because it seems whenever you go over bumpy roads the thing mounted vibrates down. I had that issue with my GPS mount on my 800 GS and have that same issue with my laptop in my work vehicle. I am also using my iPad as a navigation tool. I am mounting the hard case to my center sun visor. I haven't found another mounting idea that I really like.

 

[Czechsix]

There are actually a couple of different sizes of the ball mount - I'm using the larger of the two. With the ipad weight, I don't think the small, standard size would do so well.

 

[pugslyyy]

I did a ram ball mount right between the seats, for the ipad. Eventually I'll move up up a bit higher, up on the dash. One thing to remember with the ipad though - they really, really don't like heat. As in "time to shut down, case is too hot" kind of behavior. When I do make a dash mount, something that'll spend a bit of its time in direct sunlight, it'll be with a hood and quite possibly a cooling fan built in.

I haven't had an issue on the dash with my iPad but I have with the dash cam. I fabbed a heat shield out of an aluminum can (a field fix) and that solved the problem. Don't underestimate the effect of getting the device out of direct sunlight will have!

 

[Czechsix]

Did you go for the extra points of having the beer can label facing out? I missed spotting that at OvEx....

 

[pugslyyy]

Did you go for the extra points of having the beer can label facing out? I missed spotting that at OvEx....

LOL it was actually a Monster can.

 

[45lpv]

I ran a piece of aluminum square tube an inch or two above the dash, and bolt stuff to it using ram mounts.

Any chance you could share a shot of two of your engineering? Sounds interesting.

 

[pugslyyy]

Any chance you could share a shot of two of your engineering? Sounds interesting.

Here's a few views

Overall shot


Closeup of my dashcam heat shield and cableway


closeup of the passenger A pillar mount point (driver side is identical)

 

[SkiFreak]

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Surely you can fit a few more monitors in there... you're just not trying!

 

[45lpv]

Ingenious mounting platform... thanks for sharing.

 

[pugslyyy]

Surely you can fit a few more monitors in there... you're just not trying!

There's plenty of room for more! And when I have the shades up there are no suction cups, etc that are visible on the windshield.

For the record, I'm hanging
1- ipad
2- Garmin
3- Delorme inReach
4- TPMS
5- Dash cam

All of the wiring feeds through the split loom into the center of the dash (next to the dash cam) where I have all the various 12V adapters hard wired in.