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Default Why are stairlifts so slow?

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On Thu, 21 May 2020 07:43:22 +0100, "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)"
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Actually this question has come up before. The reason I was given
many
years
ago now, was inertia. IE if it went up fast, it would jolt at the
start
and
end of the run. And if you made it slow down and speed up,
then it
would
probably still take a long time as the distance travelled in the
main
is a
short one, and people are heavy loads to move.
I guess one could make a three point seat belt system but by the
time
you
have done it up and undone it, you might as well have been going
slower
anyway!
On the other hand, a commode mounted on a Chairlift might be a
good
product
to make. grin.
Brian


I imagine economics comes into play also. I small motor geared
down
is
cheaper than a larger, more powerful motor.

And are almost certainly designed by those who don't have
an incontinence problem and who don't realise the problem
that slow stair lifts can be for those who are incontinent.

Or maybe they realise that anyone with an incontence
problem would have something to **** in which isnt upstairs.

It's not just toilets. Imagine you're an infirm person
upstairs. The
doorbell rings. You take quite a few minutes to get there, by which
time
they've left. Now you've missed your parcel and are expected to go
collect it from the post office.

Anyone with even half a clue in that situation would have a
smart doorbell which allows you to talk to the person who
has pressed the doorbell or knocked on the door using
your phone. And that works when you are in the garden
etc too and when you arent even home and need to tell\
them where to leave it so it doesn't get stolen etc.

There are plenty old folk who don't even have a mobile phone,

No reason why they cant get one when they need to do something
like that when they are no longer as mobile as they used to be.

This is the sort of old guy I'm thinking of:
https://youtu.be/Td0skzGlBU4?t=11

Plenty manage it fine now with the new smart speakers.

And siri has been full time now for a long tine, no need to press the
home
button.


Oh my god, my neighbour has a landline phone with three handsets which
connect by radio. The problem with technology is the ****wits that
design it. These things have FOUR volume controls. He came round
asking if I could sort one of them that was way too quiet to hear the
other person speaking. I found an amplify button on the side, a volume
control on the front which controls ringer volume or speech volume
depending if your on a call, those two repeated again in a menu, and
another hidden one I found by mistake (after going to the trouble of
taking it apart to check for loose solder connections to the speaker) -
apparently pressing the green "pick up" button again makes it louder.
Why have 4 controls to do the same ****ing thing?!

because it is DIGITAL and they could .....


...... make it impossible to use.