The solution I had on Elise No.1, was to "fix" a suction cup with a long goose neck under the dash, but due to problems with vibrations, I had to mess around with velcro on the neck part, and stick it to the aluminium "guttering." A workable, but not very neat solution.
Elise No.2 has the extra 2 air vents on the center consol. There is a gap about a fingers width between the center consol and the alacanter top bit (don't you just love tech talk). I thought this would be a good place to mount somekind of phone holder, fixed by 2 self tapping screws up in to the top bit. If removed later on, there would be no visible holes
I found Brodit Pro Clips on the internet, they make holders for phones, gps, mp3 etc, and also mounting plates that clip in to the dash on specific cars (they do one for the S1, but have no intention of making one for the S2
). I ordered a holder for my model of phone, with the intention of fabricating a mounting plate out of a bit of aluminium sheet, and bending it into shape.Talking to one of the engineers at work, he suggested the use of "Forces" to keep the phone holder in place. So I cobbled together a shape that could clip in under the dash out of a bit of welding rod. This was then used to take measurements from.
The result is this:-
It clips in under the dash, and between the two air vents
The other pieces were then machined to take the Brodit holder
and fit together like this
The final result
The backplate is a bit chunky for my liking, and could be machined out quite abit more. Given the the machinist name is Chapman, he didn't quite get the concept of "lightness".
As a prototype though I don't think it's that bad, and it's rock solid too.
What do you think? as a concept is it
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Any suggestions are most welcome.
But the whole thing needs to be in at least 2 pieces, otherwise you either can't get the angle to get the clip in, or would mean the whole thing would stick out by quite a large margin.
