Picking up where we left off, the proof of concept model worked reasonably well and then serendipity struck, leading me down a new path: sit/stand desk frames!
I may have gone through the motions before, 1.5 years ago when I bought the triples (can't recall for certain), but this time I'm serious because I know more about what's involved. Anyway, ended up looking at the desk designs to see what mechanisms were being used to lift the work surface. Stumbled into Amazon from one of the pictures, where they have just the frames being sold. Tens of different frames all doing essentially the same thing at many varying prices.
Now you're probably asking why a sit/stand desk frame? Because it can elevate a large work area while keeping it level. So mount the monitors to the frame since the work surface only gets in the way when it's bridging a simracing cockpit with silly steering wheel sticking up. Naturally the steering wheel is in the sight line when you're trying to do real computer work, so being able to raise & lower the monitors is handy. Then came the question of whether it should adjust manually or with an electric motor... I'm partial to the hand crank, but a crank might not be within reach if the seating position is extremely laid down. Besides, one of the features of the model I chose is that it has a 4-position memory in addition to the usual up/down control. So I plunked my money down on this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Titan-Electric-A ... B06XDC11PJ and it is arriving today.
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