Mobile Roof Rack
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Phoenix LiDAR suggest always mounting your mobile LiDAR roof rack onto a flat roof rack and not a curved roof rack as seen on some vehicles.
When mounting the brackets from the PLS roof rack to the vehicle crossbar, ensure you keep the screws even and the bolts 90 degrees from the horizon to ensure a smooth an repeatable assembly when removing and installing the roof rack. Having a flat cross bar roof rack makes this a lot easier than a rounded cross bar roof rack. Ensure you hand tighten the locking nut on top evenly across the four mounting brackets
When placing the roof rack onto the mounting brackets, ensure the side with the LiDAR goes to the rear of the vehicle as seen in the picture below. With a single GNSS antenna design, the GNSS antenna will be mounted on the central mounting location as seen in the pictures below.
Next we will mount the LiDAR. The Lidar will need to be mounted to an included Carbon fiber plate prior to being mounted onto the roof rack. The correct bolt pattern will depend on the LiDAR sensor and nav box, but the way the plate mounts to the roof rack does not change. See an example of the carbon fiber plate below.
To install the plate and LiDAR to the roof rack follow these steps:
Place the plate LiDAR up and LiDAR sensor facing away from the vehicle on the 30-degree angle mount and line up the four mounting holes with the 30 degree pillars as seen below.
Next install the four locking nuts to lock the LiDAR into place onto the mount. ensure the locks are evenly tightened. Be careful not to cross thread the bolts, if the bolt is not going in evenly check to make sure the plate properly aligns with the locking nuts on the frame.
Run the wiring harness, This will include a power cable that connects to the Nav box and an ethernet cable connection to the LiDAR. If you are also running a ladybug 360-degree camera you will run that cable and connect it to the appropriate connection on the Nav box as well. For the Air nav box this will be a cable coming from the 51-pin connection (see #8 on the first tab below). For the FLEX This will be the Ethernet LEMO connection and the Camera LEMO connection (see #2 and #5 on the second tab below):