PINNED - Where to find everything powerchair related

[greybeard]

Looking for every type and colour of bolt, spacer, on stainless or alloy? For your ultimate powerchair build?

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/GWR-Fasteners?_rdc=1

GWR are quick too. Usually next day delivery for me so far and free postage.

[Mechniki]

Aluminum Soldering Station Insulate - the aluminium/aluminum acts a Heat sink to keep the connectors cooler, as a "hobby" device it's ok, but will only hold tight one connector at a time, though if just making it less fiddly it will hold two male/female of the same type
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01 ... UTF8&psc=1
only because I bought one, and XT90 soldering was mentioned. It also does various gauges of cable. Useful for soldering 10 swg to be sure

[duke1]

hi all idk if this has been posted before here but these guys are very good prices for the tyres and tubes and do cheap delivery uk 2 heidenau tyres and delivery £35 so i leave the link here,
https://www.motorcycleproducts.co.uk/mo ... c-331.html

[terry2]

Has anyone with a Puma 40 changed the rims?
If so, what did you change them to?

Thanks in advance.

[stefanturbo]

Where can I buy a Omni 2

[Burgerman]

We tried.

Here! https://www.cw-industrialgroup.com/Prod ... -Interface

[stefanturbo]

We tried.

Here! https://www.cw-industrialgroup.com/Prod ... -Interface

You mean to try to buy it directly from pgdt?

[Burgerman]

Why not? I have many times. Dont tell them you are an end user. Dont ask dumb questions. Just ask for a price. Preferably to the supplier to your own country.

[stefanturbo]

Why not? I have many times. Dont tell them you are an end user. Dont ask dumb questions. Just ask for a price. Preferably to the supplier to your own country.

I live in the netherlands where there is not a supplier of pdgt i know about and on the internet I dint find one. Wheelchair dealers are never giving a Omni 2 to me.

[Burgerman]

https://support.pgdt.com/Customer-Servi ... nters.aspx

Here

Welzorg Nederland BV
Heathrowstraat 5
1043 CE, Amsterdam
Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)36 545 86 00 | Fax: +31(0)36 545 86 30

Emails : Info
www : welzorg.nl

[stefanturbo]

https://support.pgdt.com/Customer-Services/Mobility-Accredited-Partners-and-Centers.aspx

Here

Welzorg Nederland BV
Heathrowstraat 5
1043 CE, Amsterdam
Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)36 545 86 00 | Fax: +31(0)36 545 86 30

Emails : Info
www : welzorg.nl

I know that company and they are never going to give a Omni 2, because they need some info that only companys have. I looked on the pgdt website and the second dutch company has the same problem.

[cdb0ewm]

You have a link where you have posted all your BM3 pictures, scripts, etc. Unfortunately I got a new PC and lost that link.
Please re-post it.
Thanks

[Burgerman]

Here? http://www.wheelchairdriver.com/BM3-construction/

[expresso]

https://www.progressiverc.com/collectio ... ors-1-pair

something new - looks like it can be useful for something -- too bad it dosnt have more little pins for balance wires -

[LROBBINS]

This will be a long note, but to get the punch line in at the top - if you are ever trying to source motors for a new design, I strongly recommend contacting George [url]sales3@china-bgmotor.com[/url] of Ningbo BG Motor Factory. Now for the long explanation.

For the tilt function of my project chair I had bought a small, 42 mm diameter, planetary gear motor meeting my torque and speed needs. It turned out, however, to be extraordinarily noisy - far too noisy to use in public. At first, thinking that this was typical of cheap planetary motors, I posted an RFQ at Alibaba for a similar size, similar output, low noise motor. I got quite a few replies, most of which did not respond to my specs, but George wrote to me offering to send a test video of a nearly silent motor BG Motor had built for a U.S. customer. It was impressively quiet, nearly silent. However, it was brushless and I needed a brushed motor. George said he could make a brushed version, but that it would not be as quiet - 55 dB with plastic gear, 60 dB with metal. Given that it is a basic design and not engineered for low noise - spur gears, plain bushings for planets and radial ball bearing on output I was skeptical. This was about mid-way through a long series of e-mails back and forth, with George making various suggestions and making sure that he understood what I needed. Obviously not just a run-of-the-mill salesman, but someone with an engineering background actually involved in building motors. The only alternative I was offered, from a different mfr, was a motor designed for low noise - helical gears, which also means needle and roller bearings and heavy cages to handle the axial loads produced by the helical gears - but it was 10mm larger diameter and 30mm longer so would have required a lot of re-design of the lift & tilt. Despite my skepticism, George's price was reasonable (US$ 24.28 for the motor, + US$33.30 for shipping) so I decided to chance it. After discovering how expensive it is to ship to Italy, he even spent more than an hour hunting up an express company that wouldn't add a $30-40 "remote area" charge for delivery to my address (on a national highway all of 25 km from the regional distribution centers of almost all the express companies!).

Paid on Nov. 26, they built one with plastic input gear but it was torque marginal so he asked if he could make mine with metal gear, sent me a test video on Dec. 9 - despite the metal gear it came out at 55 dB - and the motor arrived here on Dec. 14. It is not silent, but the noise level is certainly acceptable. Visually it differs from the awful one in two ways that might have lowered the sound level: the motor itself is 8mm longer and lower RPM and the commutator is fully enclosed rather than ventilated. In the meantime, however, I became suspicious that the awful one was not noisy by design, but defective, so I did a tear down. Quiet at no load, horrid just touching the output shaft, and no grease in the 1st stage! I didn't see any obvious damage, but adding grease didn't help so the gears were probably AFU.

Sourcing stuff has been my biggest obstacle as a hobbyist wanting just 1 or 2 of an item. George was remarkably patient and thorough for a small-ticket sale with no prospect for it becoming an industrial-sized order. Ningbo BG http://www.china-bgmotor.com/ produces a very wide array of motors so if you are every searching for something special, they, and especially George, might be the place to look.

[woodygb]

Here is a link to a Dutch supplier that MAY have some bits and bobs available that are difficult to find / obtain.

https://www.warmex.net/en/webshop/onder ... nning=5823

https://www.warmex.net/en/webshop/onder ... l?cat=1091

[fishinjunky]

are these cable sizes sufficient for a 8s x 230ah pack?

6awg for connecting the cells instead of using bus bars.

10awg for charging cable.

10awg for cable going from battery pack to power module.

thank you,

[fishinjunky]

are these cable sizes sufficient for a 8s x 230ah pack?

6awg for connecting the cells instead of using bus bars.

10awg for charging cable.

10awg for cable going from battery pack to power module.

thank you,

Wrong thread sry

[greybeard]

This is a link to a very helpful guy who 3d prints a comprehensive variety of joystick handles for the US market in his spare time. I ordered from the UK and paid the shipping as I could not find exactly what I wanted in Europe. High quality stuff.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/OldLucasWorks

[Burgerman]

I might add that if you need that then you have no choice. Many of those mean that you will be putting much more force though and onto the tiny gimble and relatively fragile joystick. So centerning errors and going out of calibration or even bending the internals is a bigger risk. They are not designed for those sort of loads. Fortunately they know this and make a HD joystick specifically designed to take those types of handles with the weight of your arm leaning on them. Unfortunately not cheap. But should be added to your chair prescription on the order form if you are not the one paying.

[REPARACIÓN SILLAS]

Hello everyone, looking for prices on the web I found this place in Barcelona Spain, which I think has good products. I leave you the most current price list that I found. SEVTRONIC.COM I hope it works!
https://sevtronic.com/img/cms/SEVTRONIC_Tarifa_PVP_INDUSTRIA_2021(1)_low_1.pdf

[Scooterman]

One of me front lights has blown, it's off a Salsa R2.

I've proved it by unplugging both lights from the R-Net and swapping them over L-R.

I've not opened it up but but looking through the glass it looks to have a tiny LED perhaps soldered to a cct board?

I'm trying to source a replacement. Or alternatively I remember seeing someone in the forum with nicer mini-maglite type front lights. I need a pair of decent headlights when popping to the local shops on a winters evening.

The ones on the salsa aren't bad, but I don't like the look of them much. Any ideas on where I can source a replacement, or replace LED, or fit a cooler style of front light?

[Scooterman]

No longer required.

I've since abandoned fitting new front lights and now have a little COB led torch hanging on the armrest.

COB led's are brilliant, I never seen them before.

https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-ultra-bright-led-torch/p/0289469

[Scooterman]

front lights mount now new lifting points

[CPguy]

Here you can buy motors with gearboxes (note that they offer R-Net plugs, Dynamic, Curtis and Anderson plugs): https://www.electrocraft.com/products/gearmotors/MPP36/

As of this post they have a 27 week delivery time! So order well in advance.

[dixonm]

Does anyone know where to purchase this plug? It is the main power connector that plugs into the R Net Controller.

[Burgerman]

You can order it from PG Drives I think. But you can more easily order it from any manufacturer that has an r-net or pilot plus or VR2 controller on any of their chairs as part of a short cable that is called a battery loom.

You also dont really need one. The stock larger sized blade connectors as used on lots of cars etc are a perfect fit and do not need the plastic part. Just heat shrink the connector.

I got a couple from some sunrise chairs from eBay. Battery loom for a "tango" and a "Salsa" chair. Just be careful as some have thicker looms, and 120A fuses and some less.

[dixonm]

Do you have a good source for the larger blade terminals. Thanks for quick response

[Burgerman]

I think they are the 9.5 or 10mm ones, cant remember. I just picked up a pack from my local motorist discount shop. Where all the boy racers get their stick on tat.

Quick look on eBay fnds plenty of the ones I think they are. 10 (9.5) millimeter ones.
Dont crimp! Solder. Then use internally heat activated heat shrink.


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/152686724083
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181022941024
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/132076481575

[dixonm]

I found these in the US. Made by Noble Wire &Terminal Springfield OR, 97478. Part # 534H