Friday, April 4, 2008
FSL-F-50 Draper Flatscreen Lift
Related Entries: Home Theater
The other day my wife showed me an article in Martha Stewart Living magazine about how to hide home electronics. Fundamentally, I have issues with that since I love seeing my home electronics. We have been debating about whether or not we should have a TV in the bedroom (we do have a 22” LCD in the bathroom). Ascetically, TV’s don’t look great in bedroom’s, so having one popup from a little cabinet is a pretty cool idea. I’m all about building my own furniture (here and here) and love the idea of getting a lift — more gadgets and mechanics — problem, cost!
Draper has released their FSL-F-50 Flatscreen Lift that can accommodate virtually any available model of display up to 50” diagonal. The unit is an easy “drop-in” installation into your cabinetry or furniture so you don’t need to engineer anything special. In addition, it features a unique secondary shelf beneath the display itself, allowing you to attach a matching trim piece to fill the opening left by the open cabinet lid for a clean, finished appearance when raised.
Here are a few more specs:
- Lifting capacity is 210 lbs.
- No display width limitation
- Vertical extension up to 148% of its stored height
- depth is 4” Overall height is 29.75”
- Optional cable management system
- Optional RS232 control
- Travel Speed is 13/8” per second
- Deployment time (without load) is 33 seconds
- Universal Mounting Bracket is included
The FSL-F-50 retails for $3325 with options adding $57 - $215 — making this flatscreen lift idea a pretty expensive one.
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COMMENTS
Posted by TomD at April 4, 2008 1:26 PM
I’d have a relatively hard time shelling out 1/10th of the cost for this product. At nearly $3400 this is the veritable ‘Pear Anjou’ of tv lifts. Let’s say there’s a very generous $500 worth of raw materials involved. At $1000, if it treated me right..walked on my back…got me a beer, etc…then maybe I wouldn’t feel like i’d been man-handled in a physical way if I bought this. At $3400 it just looks like someone’s taken a page out of the most recent “A fool and his money are soon parted” textbook.
Posted by Danny Mavromatis at April 4, 2008 2:25 PM
TomD,
I agree… way to much for such a product!
Danny
Posted by DC at April 13, 2008 5:32 PM
Agreed, way too expensive. See here for a possibility at 1/10th the cost, and some DIY elbow grease:
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