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From: Mike on 7 Dec 2007 18:38
Responding to Burgerman...
> "Mike" <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote in message
> news:ga%5j.62913$EU1.14954(a)fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>> Responding to Burgerman...
>>> "Mike" <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote in message
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>>>>
>>>> Been looking for an item I know exists, but can't seem to find it
>>>> now. Powered wheels for a manual chair.
>>>>
>>>> I keep finding the Yamaha ones, but they're high tech computerised
>>>> "assistance" items, not basic drive wheels. There was something that
>>>> was just wheels that mounted on the standard QD mount points and had
>>>> a battery pack and joystick kit to turn a manual into a light power
>>>> chair.
>>>>
>>>> Anybody have a link, or even just the name of this kind of thing?
>>>
>>>
>>> I dont unfortunately.
>>>
>>> But I cannot see ANY possible advantage that a setup like that
>>> could/would
>>> have over a sensibly modified F55s powerchair or similar?
>>> Maybe weight - if you are lifting it into a car manually?
>>>
>>
>> Hi John! Hows things?
>>
>> You're not far off the mark. Elaine is light and doesn't need the
>> range of the F55s these days, and when she does want to power, she
>> only needs local/short range. This works for me as I don't get to lug
>> heavy stuff around any more, and we don't have to feed a large
>> F55s-carrying car our food money just to get the shopping in. (We've
>> got a way smaller economy car now, and the F55s won't fit!)
>
> Sorry to hear things might be worse for elaine.
> Im ok - same as usual here.or if you prefere no change - but spinal cord
> injuries dont!

Not really. Elaine has now managed to gain a better working stability
in her conditions, as long as we don't do the things that bring on a
flare that is.

>> On a good day Elaine will be manually propelling, but if things get
>> too painful I can just clip on the power wheels, drop a battery pack
>> into a sleeve under her seat, and we'' be good for the rest of the
>> afternoon. (Plus, I can then carry the shopping back to the car too.)
>
> I have yet to see a add on power system that was anything much more than a
> too small optimistic battery powering what amounts to a radio controlled
> model car type power system. All brushed and low voltage and so stupidly
> inneficient and fragile. Which is why you cant find anything now most
> likely.

Could be the case, but we don't actually need a hot rod for this
idea, just something that Elaine can trundle around a shopping
centre when her legs start giving out the signals we've come to
recognise as early warnings she needs to stop using those muscles.

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From: Mike on 7 Dec 2007 18:47
Responding to Pete...
> Mike wrote:
>> Been looking for an item I know exists, but can't seem to find it
>> now. Powered wheels for a manual chair.
>>
>> I keep finding the Yamaha ones, but they're high tech computerised
>> "assistance" items, not basic drive wheels. There was something that
>> was just wheels that mounted on the standard QD mount points and had
>> a battery pack and joystick kit to turn a manual into a light power
>> chair.
>>
>> Anybody have a link, or even just the name of this kind of thing?
>>
>
> Hi Mike
> What your looking for is the Alber e-Fix
> http://www.ulrich-alber.de/en/products/efixneu.php
>

Yeah, thats the kind of thing I've been thinking about. Not the one I
remember seeing a year or two back, but I suppose that if some
company was selling cheap'n'nasty feeble versions, they might have
already gone out of business, or changed their name.

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