Owner`s manual

20 SALSA M
5.3 Re-Assembling
Replace the backrest into the receivers and tighten the
lever screws carefully. If required reconnect the remote
controller. Attach the hangers. Make sure your freewheel
mechanisms are engaged. Now you are ready to drive the
chair.
WARNING!
Never lift the wheelchair by the armrests or the leg rests,
since they are detachable and harm could be done to the
user or to the wheelchair.
5.4 Brake release
DANGER!
The Brake release, or the Low push force drive release •
featured in section 5.4.1, (LPFDR), is only to be used in
an emergency power breakdown situation e.g. Where a
large distance has to be covered to get the user home
or into a safe environment.
Brake release or LPFDR, can also be used if a complete •
and catastrophic loss of power such as control system
failure or battery failure has occurred.
Brake release or LPFDR, should not be habitually used •
as a means of transporting the user as if in a manual
chair.
When the power chair is functioning normally, the brake •
release or LPFDR, should only be used to park or store
the unoccupied wheelchair.
Never push the occupied power chair up or down •
a slope with either the Brake release or LPFDR in
operation.
SALSA (Before August 2010, Fig. 5.10 & 5.11)
By pulling the release levers on both sides of the base into
the up position the brakes are released from the motors.
.
SALSA M (& SALSA from August 2010, Fig. 5.12 &
5.13)
By rotating the red lever outwards on both sides of the
motor the brakes are released from the motors.
Please ensure the controller is switched off before you
engage the release levers – Failure to do so will increase
the force needed to push the chair.
DANGER!
The chair’s automatic braking system will not work •
unless the brake release levers are in the “drive” or
down position.
Motor surfaces can be hot after use. Be careful not •
to touch the motor casing when disengaging the
freewheel.
Never attempt to disengage the brake release •
mechanism whilst sitting on a slope.
Always ensure the Brake release levers are returned •
to the down / drive position.
5.4.1 Low push force drive release, (LPFDR)
NOTE: In case your powerchair is fitted with the low push
force drive release, the following instruction applies:
When switched off the powerchair remains immobile due to
the positive locking action of the automatic electromagnetic
brakes built onto the motors.
If you need to move the powerchair without the use of
battery power then operate the brake release levers
(Fig 4.1 - 4.4) as described in section 4, or Fig. 5.10 - 5.13,
as described in section 5.4).
However if the force needed to push the powerchair to
too high for you to manage then the low push force drive
release may be used, (Fig.5.14 - 5.15).
Fig. 5.9
Fig. 5.10
Fig. 5.11
Fig. 5.14
Fig. 5.15
Fig. 5.12
Fig. 5.13
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