Nexus 5x charging car cradle

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This holder is designed to securely hold a Nexus 5x phone attached to a ProClip swivel mount or another mount with a standard AMPS mounting pattern. It's essential to note that there's no stop at the bottom of the holder, but instead, a tab at the bottom has an array of small holes. The idea is to use that tab and Sugru or similar to permanently attach a charging cable to the holder as a bottom stop for the phone, which can be seen in the photo. With the phone in the holder, most sides and back are exposed, which is crucial for managing heat when streaming music and running GPS simultaneously. This setup also leaves all of the controls, mic, speakers, and headphone jack accessible so you can use them if you don't have a BT head unit. Even with a BT head unit, being able to easily access the fingerprint scanner on the back or turn on your camera while it's in the mount can be very handy. Print Settings: Printer: Monoprice Maker Select (rebranded Wanhao Duplicator I3) Rafts: Doesn't Matter Supports: No Resolution: .2 or whatever Infill: Enough to bridge the flat top, 15% or so at .2 Notes: The print is pretty straightforward. Two shells are probably enough, but I went with three since it will take some abuse living on my dash. The dimensions are perfect if your printer is spot on and your plastic doesn't shrink at all. Obviously, you'll have to scale slightly if you print in ABS. I went up 2% and it was too much. 1% is probably enough for a print this size but YMMV. If you scale it up to compensate for ABS shrinkage and find that you miss the mark a little, just hit the sides with a heat gun (or a small torch if you're REALLY careful) then slip the phone in and bend the sides in or out as needed (slowly and carefully). Post-Printing: POWER!!! Any cable and charger will work, but I used the following since it meant more clearance and super fast charging, plus a clean look. Charger (wired in behind the dash) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BMIVFK8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Cable https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0198806DU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ...and of course, the Sugru if you're unfamiliar https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EU7DBNM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 With that combination, you can run the wire back into the dash (you can see in the photo where I ran it into the gap between the stereo and center console trim on my car) and get a very clean look that leaves your cigarette lighter socket available for other devices or to charge a passenger's phone. Why bother? ProClip charges about $90 for a holder for this phone with tilt swivel and a hard-wired charging setup, and even then it's only 2amp, which means no rapid charging over USB-C. If you make your own, you're out about $1 for plastic, $7.50 for the power converter, $5.50 for the cable, $15.50 for the Sugru (which will leave you with lots of extra packets of Sugru for other projects) and $19.99 for the tilt swivel. Altogether, you get the same thing for just over half the cost. If you've already got Sugru laying around from other projects, and/or already have a tilt-swivel adapter from a previous ProClip holder (or you're using a different AMPS compatible mount) then you're really looking at 1/4 or less of the cost for the ProClip holder.