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Swing Arm Mounts for Fishfinders & Plotters
This video explains RAM® swing arm mounts for fishfinders and chartplotters, including how the swing arm design helps position marine electronics securely for easier viewing on the water.
What this video covers
This video explains RAM® swing arm mounting systems for fishfinders, chartplotters and similar marine electronics. Swing arm mounts are a heavier duty alternative to ball-and-socket systems when you need a rigid platform with controlled articulation.
It covers horizontal and vertical swing arm options, including single swing arms and dual articulating swing arm setups. The video also explains how the knobs allow the arms and top plate to be adjusted, how the plate can connect to many fishfinder gimbal brackets, and how the arm extensions affect reach and positioning.
The video is especially useful for boat setups where a fishfinder or plotter needs to be positioned clearly, folded away when not in use, or mounted to a vertical surface, flat surface or pole-style location.
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RAM® Mounts offers a wide range of both horizontal and vertical swing arm mounting systems these are a heavy duty alternative to the ball and socket mounting systems for supporting the fish finders on your boats whether it's the horizontal or vertical options you have the single swing arm option or you have a dual articulating swingarm option as you can see here by loosening each of these knobs you can articulate the swing arms to the desired position as well as articulating the direction of the plate at the top that will adapt onto the gimbal bracket of virtually any fish finder each swing arm extension has a center to center length of 6 inches so whether you're using the single swing arm or the dual articulating swing arm you can collapse the mount entirely or you can get up to a total of 12 inches using both of the swing arm extensions with an additional height of roughly and three eighths inches per swing arm the vertical swingarm base has a four hole center to center hole pattern of three and a quarter by two and a half inches or you can have this actually mounted onto a vertical pole using this v-shaped casting here you can adapt onto a vertical rail with these slotted holes you can adapt on optional u-bolt mounting hardware sold separately or you can use the slots above and below using hose clamps the plate adapter at the end of each of these swing arm mounts has the same set of hole patterns that you would find on the ram ball and socket version of the marine electronic mounts you can click on the drawing file to view all specific hole patterns to check compatibility or you can check the compatibility section on the ramout.com website to view all compatible fish finders you
