I present the following not as criticism, but as an alternative for those
who don't want to spend a lot of money.

I looked at RAM mounts for my Streak installation and just couldn't justify
the high price. There's a lot of talk about adjustability but, seriously, I
think that, once you have it adjusted to your preference, you leave it
there. My solution was simple and, most importantly, cheap!

I went to WalMart and bought a universal car cell phone mount. It came with
suction cup and AC vent attachments. Using a hacksaw, I removed the suction
cup base and then, with two adel clamps
(http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...d=0CDsQ9QEwAg),
a couple of nuts and screws, attached it to the side of my panel above my
knee. After a single adjustment, it's there permanently.


"AGL" wrote in message
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On Tuesday, 23 July 2013 11:48:07 UTC-4, Mike Hostage wrote:
I am flying with a Nook Simple Touch, loaded with TopHat (a derivative of

XCSoar, see: tophat.freeforums.org),

Yes, it's a Nook. I have one with TopHat too, but use a USB mouse GPS or
my back-up generic Garmin with a serial/usb adapter. I take it home and
download the igc file by USB. (ok for the OLC) It works very well so far.

I made custom clips for a RAM-HOL-TAB-SMU with a 1" ball system to the
cockpit side rail. It covers the spare Winter mechanical vario I never
use.

After flying four hours on the regular 7AH batteries with that and an
audio vario, voltage dropped from 12.8 12.6 volts. One day I'll measure
the current usage, but it's a non-issue.

I see no indication that it's too slow to do the job. On-line objections
about speed or ghosting have been theoretical. Try one! It's cheap
enough. :-)