power wheelchairs and folding mobility scooters i'm kevin with all-star medical and one of the
biggest questions we get whether it's phone calls chats emails is they want to know about all these
new folding power wheelchairs and folding mobility scooters and what are the features and benefits so
we've got about seven that we're going to go over today just to show you just the little differences
in all these type of chairs i do like to mention first off the difference between a power
chair and a scooter is really simple all power chairs have a joystick okay where a
mobility scooter has handlebars so that's the best way to to look at that is you know that it's going
to have handlebars versus joystick that's how you ask if you're asking somebody for one or you
want to do some research on it um tell them how i want the joystick or i want them with handlebars
so the one i'll show you today this is the uh start out with this is the ew m45 by e wheels
this is their folding power wheelchair this has a 400 pound weight capacity um i do like to mention
you know it's got a pretty good size feet it can handle 400 pounds but i don't know if necessarily
somebody weighing 400 pounds can get between the arms but it does have a 400 pound weight capacity
it's got large rear wheels goes up to 3.7 miles an hour and it has a travel range of 15.5 miles
your rear wheels are 12 inch and your front are eight your turning radius on this is 31.
um overall weight of the chair is 59 pounds so it's not too heavy um your seat width is 19.
but you know you you're going to be able to do some stuff in this that maybe you can't always
do in some of these other power wheelchairs i like to show the little compartment on the back here
this is where i always recommend keeping the charger at you can keep it fair that way you don't
have to worry about anything if you ever run out of battery you've always got the charger with you
it has a simple fold function right here it's just a lever you just do this and fold down
okay so 59 pounds and then there's your width right there so very easy to fold up and unfold
the next chair that i uh i'd like to discuss would be the um
pride mobility jazzy passport very similar look to it this has been out for quite a while now
it's a really good folding power wheelchair has a 250 pound weight capacity
um you've got your joystick that you have a little bit of play where you can adjust it if you need to
it also makes it nice when you're folding it up that it's not just sticking out
in the way it has a built-in cup holder that comes with it the arms do fold up
so you can get in and out of the chair both these devices allow you to put the remotes on either
side so you can put the joystick on the right or left side if you need to this one also has a pouch
in the back where you can put your charger and it also has a little pouch up front that you can put
some other things in here so kind of a nice little feature there this one when you go to fold up has
two little buttons push down just like that we are ready to fold up that's your
what you're dealing with right there that's the folding part of that's all it's going to do
what typically happens you can fold this down if you need to in here and then fold that in
so it's compact but that's the folding as much as you're going to be able to fold that again it
works it's compact and it's great for travel use and things like that just take this lever again
just pops it back in play make your adjustment on your joystick
and put your foot plate down so you know not a bad little device there
give you a couple little specks on it 23 and a half overall width most of your chairs are
between that 23 and 24 and a half inch you're not going to have a problem taking the chair going
through door frames things like that that's just pretty standard with it see if i missed any other
specifications on here that i need to mention your um overall length is 40 inches on this one
and uh 3.6 miles an hour is the speed range and which is pretty standard between three and a half
and four is about what you're going to get on a power wheelchair the other version that we have
is the zoomer okay so the zoomer it is a folding power wheelchair as well so it has
a real tight turning radius 24 inch turning radius okay um you can use this on multiple
surfaces just like you can do these other two one of the nice features about it is how easy
it folds and how compact it folds so there's a lever right here okay i just pull this and this
folds down okay and now i am ready that is your width so you can take this so drag it it weighs
on the website they will say it's less than 52 on the box it ships it says it's 48 pounds
um it has a 300 pound weight capacity a lot of people you will see mentioned say this
weight has a 275 weight capacity again it's more about fitting in between the
arms than anything uh because yeah it can handle 300 pounds but can the individual
that weighs 300 pounds fit between the arms um has up to an eight mile range on its battery
it's real easy to take this battery in and out this pops out does have a little compartment
underneath here where the charger is at so you can always have that with you when you need it
um again nice little option there um you can also adjust the uh joystick from here to here and the
you know other benefit is just how portable it is and then we really like the footrest version here
so see how those have footrests that are standard you either have to step around or have them folded
up and then push them down you have to fold it up or push them down with this i can go all the
way back in the seat and then this moves so it's a nice little feature when you're getting in and out
of the chair you don't have any obstacles getting in and out so this is the zoomer it does have a
there is a version called the zinger which i the best way to explain it we don't have it here today
it's like driving a bobcat or a skid steer you drive with the mechanisms on the side here
uh we find that you need to be pretty good with your your arm movements and things like that
to make it work it's a good little chair it's not for everybody we're really just focusing
on the the standard power wheelchairs here so that's the three versions of the folding
towers that we are going over today the other four options i have are the mobility scooters
so this is the folding mobility scooters that we're going to go over uh you'll see that we
have four different versions they've all got a few different features and benefits i'm going to
start out with the golden technology buzz around carry-on this is a scooter that golden technology
specifically made for the cruise line industry this scooter can fold up and actually fit under
the bed on cruise ships and so that's why this was made um it's very compact the one
thing about the way this folds is when you you have to take the seat off okay so i'm going to
lift this lever right here that unclicks it that allows you to take the seat off this
the armrests do flip back and then this does fold down okay so you can fold the seat down
very lightweight i think the seats like eight pounds it's not very heavy at all
you have these two little bolts here this folds down here you have this yellow trigger squeeze it
and then that folds down your basket actually folds up
and it's compact you can lift and drag it if i'm not mistaken we're looking at
47 pounds on this plus i believe it's the 8 or 10 pounds on the seat let me verify that real quick
yes 47 pounds for this it's actually 12 pounds on the seat um your turning radius is 48 inches
here so pretty good turning radius it's not wide at all it has um a three and a half miles per
hour is the average speed the top feed with a 300 pound weight capacity so it's got a lot of uh fit
that work really well uh feature i'm sorry fits i said features the features and benefits
you can grab it on this side of the handle so it's very easy to carry you look at how
compact it is from this angle it's very nice so we've had a lot of people really like this
we think wants to get back and be able to do some more cruises just to continue to be a very popular
uh device also has a cup holder as well built into it um so real easy to use um and maintain
it it's simple so i'll put this one back together and i'll go into the next one uh the other one
that we like talking about is going to be the pride uh folding go scooter uh very nice scooter
250 pound weight casting it's a little smaller a little more compact give me an example i'm 5'8
um i'm probably you know with the the way i'm built you're not going to be much taller than
maybe five nine to sit in this because your legs will get a little too high and you won't feel
comfortable the one thing about these folding scooters is you don't have a lot of adjustment
on the seat options because they fold they don't have height adjustments so that's
something to keep in mind when you're you're purchasing one or looking in to purchase one
the way this one folds up is you click this button here fold this down and by doing that that
lets that disconnect and then i raise this up so i've got it where i can push it around
and move it around just like that now you'll notice on this one right here this is considered
a four wheel version because it's got the two wheels on the front but it does have a little
bit tighter turning radius again a 250 pound weight capacity top speed is up to four miles
an hour your overall length is 37 so it's a little bit shorter your turning radius is 32 inches okay
comes in this standard color of white uh it's it's been really good we've had a lot of people like it
but again you're picking up this overall weight is 51 pounds okay what you're dealing with and
then they have two types of batteries your sealed lead acids are nine pounds and then your lithium
ion batteries are five pounds so it's either 56 pounds or 60 pounds is the total weight of
this device right here so you need to think what can i lift can i lift 60 pounds about waist high
because that's what i'll need to do in order to get this in the trunk of a car or even a back seat
the next device that we have here is the snap and go um this has been a great uh folding scooter
for us it's actually out of all of these that we'll show today is the lightest version out
there it is a three wheeled version um you'll see the seat get this right here
so the seat comes off a little lever here pull that off
there's a little trigger right there okay push this actually can
uh i've got to tighten down let me get that off real quick here's some sort of step over
that folds down your seat i believe is 15. the total weight of this unit is 33. so you'll see
that this is not heavy at all as far as picking up it's very easy to pick up it's very compact but
you can do that so it's a little bit different than some of the units that you see but it has
been really popular when it comes to portability you can't really beat the portability on on this
device it is it's just a great item it works really well it's got a lithium battery built in
300 pound weight capacity when you turn the device on you'll see that the difference on
it the way this drives is you have a forward sorry about that let me show you here forward
or reverse okay where the other ones have a trigger and i'll show you that a little more
detail on the next one but forward or reverse and then you have three levels as far as
the speed you drive and i'll get into a little bit of specifics on the speed
your first speed is three miles an hour your second speed is 4.5 and your third
is six and it's got a range up to 15 miles as far as that goes so you know you really do have a
nice device here that's easy to use that 300 pound weight capacity is huge very compact it also comes
with baskets we don't have them on display right here but i do have a good image that i'll show you
you can put baskets all over this it comes with a pouch on the front that you saw just a minute ago
so you've got a couple options with either the baskets they come standard with this and the pouch
flip up armrest on the seat the seat does swivel as well and you do have a little bit of ability
to adjust the seat width um so this has a little bit of an option there when it comes to seat width
keep that in mind when you do this again this is the snap and go and it's made by glion
all right so that's the third one there our next one here is we get this a lot
it's popular this is the transformer by enhanced mobility one of the things that this stands out
or that makes this device stand out is that this has a remote that automatically folds the chair
so oh i'm sorry let me turn this on real quick so i can fold the chair just by pushing
the button on the remote now what i tell people is this is a great little item you can fold it
up and you can do some stuff like that but if you can't fold the device up yourself
there's a great chance you can't pick the device up either so keep that in mind i mean
the folding part it's nice it's great we have a lot of people that buy this and want this but
if you can't fold it you probably can't pick it up your weight on this device um i believe
is 53 pounds with the battery okay you do have um a 300 pound weight capacity on this
maximum speed is 3.7 miles an hour your range is 13.5 and then you're going to look at your overall
length is 37.4 and your overall width with the armrest or 22.5 all of these mobility scooters
are under i think 24 and a half as far as the width so you won't have a problem going through
any type of door frame or thing like that it's going to work really easy
they've got up to a 35 mile range per charge again that's what they test them all never
had a customer go 35 miles to be honest with you it's just it's it's crazy the amount of mileage
it goes you shouldn't have to worry about battery life or anything like that with this device here
it's really nice again it's got an adjustable tiller here so you can push this up or down and
so that's kind of feature i'll go ahead and put it back down show you how it folds down as well
and so you'll see you do have flip back arm rest this is where i was mentioning how
you had the forward and reverse and then you just push a button where here
you can go forward or reverse which is most common this does have a backup button or a backup sound
when you do that same speed dial everything else is very similar to these four
but we want to give you a video to show you the different versions
and help you make a good decision when ordering a folding mobility scooter or a folding power chair
you can get these at allstarmedicallc.com you can give us a call at 615-730-9438
we'll be glad to help we do know the options and and the best benefits for you
and can talk you through maybe which one to get
we offer financing options that we have available so again you can call us at 615-730-9430
or visit us online at allstarmedicallc.com thanks and have a great day