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Liquid's custom wireless charging phone mount (pics)

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Cobbled together a custom wireless charging setup and so far I am very pleased with the results—very little vibration/wobble, easy to read at speed and manipulate if necessary, and catches some of the vent air to keep the Qi charger cool. I already had most of the pieces so I really only had to buy the ball mount adapter and the double sided adhesive.
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The phone screen might look weird because I keep the blue light filter on full-time. Note that it does indicate Fast Wireless Charging.

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Currently stuck onto the vent housing with a 3M VHB pad, and I left a hole for myself in case I need to reinforce it with a lath screw later.

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Here are the components before assembly. The bracket is a piece of 1/8" aluminum that I cut and bent and painted after making a couple of cardboard mockups. It's not pretty because I'm not a fabricator but it fully serves its intended purpose.

Oh and I have the wiring hidden within the interior trim for the charger and for my Roav dashcam. They plug into USB ports that I hard wired in the dead pedal area—any interest in those pics?
 

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Looking good. I wonder if the contact surface with the VHT is enough to hold all that mass though. Time will tell. Nice job!!
 

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The VHB lasted almost a year before starting to come loose. Glad I left myself a screw hole [coolsmile]
 

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I am interested in the wiring photos for sure. I'm still looking for what people have used to mount a phone holder from the back of the LCD display. I have seen them but can't find the info now.
 

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Pictured: two USB outlets integrated to the driver's kick panel; one switched for the dashcam and one constant for the phone mount. Used fuse taps, don't remember which fuses I tapped but I read it here on explorerst.org!
Not pictured: burying the USB cables under the steering column and various trim pieces
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