WCS are coming round for a home visit tomorrow, I'm hoping I might be able to persuade them to get me a Salsa R2. If not a few SR2s do pop up on eBay most weeks. But all the 'used' SR2s I've seen have the leg hangers rather than the centre footplate.
The centre legrest, or the power centre legrest is a "build for me" option. When ordering. Fitting one afterwards is possible but expensive.
They generally also have wobbly lift up arms that dont allow good control since the joystick wobbes with them. And they have an unbelievably loose wobbly swing away for the joystick. That sits it both too low, and too outboard for comfort or any chance of good control once programmed so it steers and goes.
And it also will have weal low powered controller, and weedy 2 pole motors. Because thats what they think is adequate for 4mph when supplied by wheelchair services...
If WCS provide me with an SR2 or I buy one privately can it be improved without too much work or modification? Especially if it's a WCS chair which won't be mine. You've shown how you upgraded the rims and tyres.
Only by throwing away controller for a bigger one, 2 pole motors for 4 pole ones, smaller batteries for bigger grp 24 ones, added lights, possibly a better joystick, swing away mont for a better non wobbly one, chair arms and fitting single post ones, swing away foortrests and replacing with centre ones. By the time you do that you may as well order the chair right in the first place. But the WCS will likely not do that so you will need a budget, and discount to do it instead or find a used one with centre footplate, and 4 pole etc.
For Example
1) you've moved your seat back to improve the handling by shifting your COG, was that quite easy to do?
I altered the base angle, by drilling a couple of new holes, and the tilt/recline module that most dont have, has a lot of holes to allow movement. But you also need to modify the oversized centre footplate to stop the actuator hitting the tyre if you have powered legs. And you cant do it at all with swing aways, meaning its always going to be nose heavy and unsteerable... And long.
2) you've got a centre footplate which I think you ordered with the chair? If I end up with a chair that has leg hangers can I remove them and fit a centre footplate?
At considerable expense. And a power one is a lot more! And needs correct actuator module, different joystick, and programming etc.
3) BTW have you changed the programming on your new chair? Someone in this forum kindly supplied me with the PGDT and a lead that I used to program a couple of S-Drive but I'm not sure if the software and lead would work with a powerchair controller which I'm imagine is a bit more complicated than a scooter.
Drastically. All stock chairs are undrivable. But you need R-Net for most and possibly VR2 with your lead for the lower powered ones. Depends on what was ordered.
Basically a base level salsa is useless to me. And with all the options the price more than doubles. And its still useless until its modified, seat moved, reprogrammed, etc. So its best to decide exactly what you need, and download the prescription form and read it very carefully.
Heres mine:
http://www.wheelchairdriver.com/ordered.pdf Base model is cheap. This however comes out at about 10k with custom options not on that form, eg: centre power footplate, 120A power module, black paint, advanced colour joystick, etc. Less whatever discount you can get. I got mine through a different means. But you can get 20 to 25 percent online if you accept responsibility, as in supply only. From quite a few dealers.
Because the options I have are not on that form its unlikely you will find one used this way. And SMALL changes and options and fixes make the difference between usable or hopelessly unusable. Even WITH all the correct selections, when the salsa first arrived I tried it.
I didnt fit in it. So 3 hours later with arms and seat size reconfigured I tried again. It wouldnt turn. Too nose heavy. Feet stuck out ahead. So seat moved, and footplate modified. Rinse and repeat. Better but control pod required you had a broken wrist to operate. So that was raised, moved in by 4 inches. Tried again. Cant hit a doorway. Programming begins... Etc etc...
After a week I had everything right. Still feels very heavy, and programming and seat base angle still need fine tuning.