Pride Mobility 1400 owner manual Weight Limitations, Incline Information

I I . S A F E T Y

Weight Limitations

Your Go-Chair is rated for a maximum weight capacity. Please refer to the specifications table for this limit.

WARNING! Exceeding the weight capacity voids your warranty and may result in personal injury and/or damage to your Go-Chair. Pride will not be held responsible for injuries and/or property damage resulting from failure to observe weight limitations.

WARNING! Do not carry passengers on your Go-Chair. Carrying passengers on your Go-Chair may result in personal injury and/or property damage.

Incline Information

More and more buildings have ramps with specified degrees of inclination, designed for easy and safe access. Some ramps may have turning switchbacks (180-degree turns) that require you to have good cornering skills on your Go-Chair.

!Proceed with extreme caution as you approach the downgrade of a ramp or other incline.

!Take wide swings with your travel chair’s front wheels around any tight corners. If you do that, the travel chair’s rear wheels will follow a wide arc, not cut the corner short, and not bump into or get hung up on any railing corners.

!When driving down a ramp, keep the travel chair’s speed adjustment set to the slowest speed setting to ensure a safely controlled descent. See VII. “Operation.”

!Avoid sudden stops and starts.

When climbing an incline, try to keep your Go-Chair moving. If you must stop, start up again slowly and then accelerate cautiously. When driving down an incline, set your Go-Chair to the slowest setting and drive in the forward direction only. If your Go-Chair starts to move down the incline faster than you anticipated or desired, allow it to come to a complete stop by releasing the joystick, then push the joystick forward slightly to ensure a safely controlled descent.

WARNING! When climbing an incline, do not zigzag or drive at an angle up the face of the incline. Drive your Go-Chair straight up the incline. This greatly reduces the possibility of a tip or a fall. Always exercise extreme caution when negotiating an incline.

WARNING! You should not travel up or down a potentially hazardous incline (i.e., areas covered with snow, ice, cut grass, or wet leaves).

WARNING! When on any sort of an incline or decline, never place the Go-Chair in freewheel mode while seated on it or standing next to it. Doing so may result in personal injury and/or damage to your Go-Chair.

WARNING! Never travel down an incline backwards. This may result in personal injury.

WARNING! Even though your Go-Chair is capable of climbing slopes greater than those illustrated in figure 1, do not, under any circumstances, exceed the incline guidelines or any other specifications presented in this manual. Doing so could cause instability in your Go-Chair, resulting in personal injury and/or damage to your Go-Chair.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, all handicap public access ramps are required to have a maximum slope of 5° (8.7%). Therefore, Pride recommends that the maximum slope of an incline you attempt to safely ascend or descend on your Go-Chair does not exceed 5° (8.7%). See figure 1.

WARNING! Any attempt to climb or descend a slope steeper than 5° (8.7%) may put your Go-Chair in an unstable position and cause it to tip, resulting in personal injury.