Peak Design Wireless Charging Mounts

[Arsey]

I’ve been using Peak Design mounts on various bikes for a couple of years .
So much better than Quadlock or anything else .
Quite a few converts on here .
The only thing missing was wireless charging .

sorted

It’s bound to work well like all their stuff

And this is why Peak Design is the best

 

[TIJ650]

After stopping by SBS in Glasgow, I decided to break into the new millennium and get a phone mount! Lol
I know Peak Design do a lot of sexy videos on YouTube etc and grease the palms of many including FortNine, but if I can’t examine in my hand - not buying
Their stuff is made in China too.
Conversely, SBS had the SP Connect Pro on their shelf and the build quality seems exceptional. German and billet aluminium. Fits my Harley good too.
No right and wrong here - just different.

 

[EVskiy]

After stopping by SBS in Glasgow, I decided to break into the new millennium and get a phone mount! Lol
I know Peak Design do a lot of sexy videos on YouTube etc and grease the palms of many including FortNine, but if I can’t examine in my hand - not buying
Their stuff is made in China too.
Conversely, SBS had the SP Connect Pro on their shelf and the build quality seems exceptional. German and billet aluminium. Fits my Harley good too.
No right and wrong here - just different.

SP Connect is shite. DAMHIK.
Equally as cumbersome to use as is quadlock.

I’ll give you a year (if you feeling lucky) before the fecking case falls apart.

 

[TIJ650]

Assuming you’ve used then?
Mount seems quite robust to me and like fact you have to turn 90 degrees to lock. Peak Design you’re 100% reliant on magnets holding. Haven’t used either in anger - so will reserve judgement for now.
Hope you’re wrong
………..and not completely beyond the realms of possibility!

 

[EVskiy]

Assuming you’ve used then?

SP CONNECT: with my iPhone 7. The connecting part in the case got a chewed up within months, trying to line it up with the mount sometime 3-4 times a day, result rattling about phone.

Touratech cradle (still have it) which needed the phone to be dropped in to it then locked. Ok and rugged design but quite chunky and heavy

Quadlock. Wife seen it when they first appeared on the market, so she wanted it for her RnineT. She hated it just weeks later and haven’t used it since. I knew it was a crap design having had similar experience with SP connect.

Peak Design: will not look back.

Excellent customer service and dealer support where our very own UKGSER user is concerned, but I will let that very used tell his story in his own thread. Or regurgitate it on here.

Mount seems quite robust to me and like fact you have to turn 90 degrees to lock.

Even worse than quadlock and their 45° design then.

Peak Design you’re 100% reliant on magnets holding.

You haven’t done your homework then I see. Assumption is a mother of all f***ups.

Haven’t used either in anger - so will reserve judgement for now.
Hope you’re wrong
………..and not completely beyond the realms of possibility!

Your money dude.

PS. There is very little in the world that hasn’t in one way or the other come out of China or any other far East Asian country. After all profit margins are assessed by bean counters and shareholders need their return in a form of a thick wedge. This includes the components that are likely to be found on your very own Milwaukee assembled specimen.

 

[TIJ650]

I have zero experience with phone mounts cause this is my first - so I’ll bow to your superior knowledge.
I liked the feel of the billet mount though. Concede that the phone case is a little flimsy though. I’ll try and be careful and report back in 12 months

 

[TIJ650]

……….or less! Lol

 

[Sneldog]

I just got a Peak design case and bar mount and am very impressed.

 

[Wapping]

The only thing missing was wireless charging….

My Peak Design wireless charger has just landed at Wapping post office.

 

[Arsey]

My Peak Design wireless charger has just landed at Wapping post office.

Excellent.
Might even be fitted on the bike by mid February then !

 

[Wapping]

Excellent.
Might even be fitted on the bike by mid February then !

There is certainly no rush, as I am out on the lash most of December.

 

[Arsey]

Peak Design has 40% off this weekend

 

[Wapping]

There is certainly no rush, as I am out on the lash most of December.

I have now got around to doing it, on no less than two bikes.

 

[Wapping]

When powered by the factory fit USB C socket on my Himalayan 450, the power supplied is not sufficient to properly charge my iPhone Pro Max, via the Peak Design wireless charger.

I can’t find the power output of the Himalayan’s USB C listed anywhere, though I suspect it’s nothing special. So, I’m going to use an SAE supply, run via the bike’s main electrical output. That works well on my 1600.

Other than that, the wireless charger is spot on.

 

[Wapping]

Problem solved, in the sunshine of north east France.

I found a USB C to USB C male to female adaptor in my bag of electrical bits. As I already had a fused USB C lead connected to the bike’s electrical supply, I was able to disconnect the USB C lead to the wireless charger from the bike’s USB C port and reconnect it to the bike’s supply.


The phone now charges properly.

Clearly the factory fit USB C socket isn’t up to much.

I have asked Peak Design what power their wireless charger needs, in order to work properly. If they reply, I’ll post it in this thread. Likewise, if I find out the power output of the 450 Himalayan’s factory fit USB C socket, I’ll share that, too.

 

[Wapping]

I spoke too soon.

More investigation needed.

 

[JonnyBravo]

I suspect that the wireless charging (always slower and not as efficient as wired) can’t keep up with the phones demands.
Experienced this in my Amarok when using google maps or MRA and always ‘plug in’ now instead of using the wireless pad.
The Himalayan will give out more than enough to the charger I would think. Needs just over an amp to get you about 15w ?

 

[Wapping]

That’s what surprises me, too.

My iPhone 15 initially shows that it is charging well. Then it reports ‘slow charging’, which is odd as the Peak Design charging head is a Qi2 head. It should belt it out.

I am going to try it next via an SAE feed. But, I can’t do that until I get home.

I’m also going to contact Peak Design, to see what they have to say.

 

[crumbles]

And when you get home
All the detritus from the Marathon will be gone...

 

[JonnyBravo]

And when you get home
All the detritus from the Marathon will be gone...

Some fat twat in a sponsor me t-shirt from grimsby who never trained will still be trying to finish whilst he walks to work ……