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Anyone got an opinion on the Pro Rider P2 powerchair please? From the limited information on their website it seems much a better spec than many similar priced machines. I have emailed them for a fuller spec but would appreciate your views.

Great forum, by the way!

greybeard wrote:Anyone got an opinion on the Pro Rider P2 powerchair please? From the limited information on their website it seems much a better spec than many similar priced machines. I have emailed them for a fuller spec but would appreciate your views.

Great forum, by the way!

Sorry guys. Forgot to post the link - http://www.proridermobility.com/detail. ... ductID=279

greybeard wrote:

greybeard wrote:Anyone got an opinion on the Pro Rider P2 powerchair please? From the limited information on their website it seems much a better spec than many similar priced machines. I have emailed them for a fuller spec but would appreciate your views.

Great forum, by the way!

Sorry guys. Forgot to post the link - http://www.proridermobility.com/detail. ... ductID=279

Well its cheap @ £1099, so that tells you something...

and "huge 50aH batteries" won't get you 30miles! in fact 'huge' everything smacks of desperate advertising...

pinch of salt & reality check needed...

Thanks Irving. Their response to my email didn't fill me with confidence as they sent specs of the wrong machine. Think I'll give them a miss.

Looks like an add targeted at stupid people that haven't done any research into chairs AT ALL....

First off it looks like a clone of a 6-wheel Jazzy... A crappy chair if ever there was one...

They brag about being able to mount the controls on either arm - it would be hard NOT to do this - I've never seen a chair that it couldn't be done on, usually with minimal tools or effort... (and since I do my stick on the left arm, I almost always need to swap it over...)

Looking at the control, it appears to be one of the "all in the pod" units like the old Pilot (NOT the Pilot+) which are inherently gutless and weedy, both because of low power capability, and because they are running small gage wires for ALL the power up to the pod and then back down to the motors...

On and off-board charging isn't hard or special, but usually the on-board charger modules are even worse than the factory charger-bricks, which is why good chairs don't use them...

As mentioned the 30 mile range is a dream - maybe on brand new batteries, running them to 100% discharge while running down hill....

Seating made by some car company - certainly not rehab grade, and probably not even quality like a Recaro...

560W motors are SMALL.... Ditto the 50Ah batteries (IIRC Group 24's are normally 65Ah)

My guess is that this is the sort of chair that gets purchased for Grandma by concerned children without much in the way of diagnosis or fitting like one would normally see in a rehab chair for someone with SCI or other serious problem...

Here in the US, we had an outfit called the "Scooter Store" that essentially made their money by gaming the medical system into paying inflated prices for cheap chairs on the grounds of "Medicare will pay all, so it costs you nothing" Eventually they did get into trouble for fraud, but it took a lot of years... This kind of ad screams of being the same sort of scam...

ex-Gooserider

>>>Ditto the 50Ah batteries (IIRC Group 24's are normally 65Ah)

Actually the MK Grp 24's, are 73Ah, most of the rest are 70 to 80Ah.

Elecsols are rubbish, but 100Ah Grp 24's...