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Acorn 120 rail question
Hi all:
My parent’s home has an Acorn 120 lift, which works very well, so I recently purchased 2 sets of used Acorn 120 lifts for my own home. My parent’s lift is fairly short, for about 7 stairs or so, and the rail is in one piece. The ones I purchased are each for a flight of 14 stairs so the rail is in 2 pieces that you join together, with one charging point in the upper segment and one in the lower segment.
I suddenly realized that the stairs I intend to install the lift is much shorter. So much shorter that I essentially only need to use one of the rail segments. So my question is without modifying the existing rails, will the lift work with just one rail segment?
One obvious issue is that each segment contains a charge point, so if I’m only using 1 segment, then it won’t be charging half the time, and will beep to indicate that it is not at the charge point. If that’s the only issue, I guess I can just use the remote to send it back down to the other charge point.
I notice in the installation video that you’re supposed to connect wires between the 2 rails, which I am assuming links up both charge points and allows them to charge. If I’m only using 1 segment, and don’t have the wires connected, will the lift not work then? I am hoping I don’t have to modify what I bought by removing bits from one rail segment just so I can use the other rail segment.
I hope I explained the situation clearly enough to understand, and thanks in advance for any advice!
Cheers
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