Am overwhelmed with the amount of knowledge here..and how to extract what I must know. Lets assume we don't want to deal with any techs or DME suppliers. I WANT to be able to order parts online and manage without fabrication. Am willing to drill a hole or make a cut, but I do not weld or turn anything on a lathe. Is it possible to maintain either the Permobile or the Pulse 6 myself...albeit with a little help lifting the heavy parts?
The answer is that theres always a way. But they dont make it easy. Used or new parts appear on eBay. Almost new chairs go cheap on eBay too.
R-Net parts for e.g, the best and high end parts, also go on eBay 10 or 20x cheaper than the same bits that you will struggle to buy from your DME.
This for e.g.
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8857 read slowly! You could for e.g. dump the permobil stuff, and fit generic r-net to both your chairs if anything fails from end to end. A chair is just 2 motors, the electrics in the link, and a frame. Alternate parts can be fitted. NEW pats can be used, but you might need to buy from a dealer. In a non inflated price EU country. Or whatever it takes. Thats why you need several chairs. It may take time to fix.
The Permobile ICS+R-net appear to be major obstacles not easily overcome without the correct programmers? The programmers are not available to the public if I understand correctly.
There are ways...
Is there any point to keeping this F3? It currently shows an occasional leg tilt error, which disables everything. I can't get down and can't move next to the bed or anywhere. As time goes on I won't be able to clear the error by rebooting or disconnecting the joystick module correct? It makes a great coat rack!
If it were mine, I would junk the permobil seating module and disable many of the inhibits in programming. And fit R-Net generic parts. It requires a little knowledge. And this
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8857 then theres no permobil firmware, or permobil seating stuff left.
Or I would use eBay or wherever and buy a different chair.
The Pulse 6 does everything I need it to do today...but I'd like to understand it better and be able to get decent black drive tires!!! Maybe a new thread on Pulse 6 would be a good idea. Only found 1 thread with "Pulse" in the title. Believe I have the older Pulse 6 split wheels. The Primo brand Duratrap tire has a spec of 2.50-8, NHS standard rim 1.5
I live in the UK and have not heard of a pulse 6.
I recently bought a brand new rear drive chair, (read the first post IN DETAIL and carefully before scrolling down to take a look).
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7455&start=600#p122818This is the only chair in the UK that ticks all the essential boxes, and than I did a bunch of equally essential SMALL CHANGES to make it work properly. Resulting in a decent chair. One that I can buy parts for at sensible prices. And that I can program. And that performs properly.
Feel free to start a new thread on a pulse 6!
They will but they are pretty crappy tyres.
There are better, and tubes are better than solids for ride, longevity, and for range.
But tubes are terrible for punctures. Or rather the cheap tyres that many use allow the flimsy tyres to puncture and the tube fails beutifully...
So I tend to swap all my tyres to tubeless, and so way more puncture resistant, stronger road going construction, etc; but that means swapping wheels... Hence the wheels fitted to my chair here
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7455&start=600#p122818 but you dont want to make anything so cannot do this.
So its all a compromise.
