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The Bekant motorized desk is a terrible product with bad ratings on Ikeas own site. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49022538/ Does this project fix any of the underlying issues.
Ikea's standing desks aren't that great. They wobble a lot and then anything attached to it wobbles too. Still looking for the perfect heavy-duty standing desk and heavy-duty VESA arm combo. I don't want anything on my desk moving unless I am moving it myself. To put it this way: if a desk is $500 and wobbles slightly (meaning if I touch the desk or type, my coffee jiggles and waves are seen) or is $1000 and the desk…
Take a look at https://www.autonomous.ai They offer the option to buy JUST the legs, and you can mount your own top. I went that route. Bought the legs with the strongest motor (can support 300lbs) and put a nice heavy desktop on there with a vesa mounted 34" curved monitor. It's pretty damn sturdy. I never notice any wobble with normal use and I usually have it pretty high up.
Well, on the one hand, it is great to have a replacement for the original controller. At a previous employer I had a Bekant with the stock controller, and those darn things are dreadfully unreliable. We had enough of those desks to get good reliability statistics... and the statistics are awful. So an open source replacement is great. That said: Who the heck needs a motorized desk????? When it came to spending my own…
Well, on the one hand, it is great to have a replacement for the original controller. At a previous employer I had a Bekant with the stock controller, and those darn things are dreadfully unreliable. We had enough of those desks to get good reliability statistics... and the statistics are awful. So an open source replacement is great. That said: Who the heck needs a motorized desk????? When it came to spending my own…
Motorized desks are for flexible working places. People need to change their desks to the right height before starting to work and they are more likely to do so if it is easier.
The Bekant motorized desk is a terrible product with bad ratings on Ikeas own site. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49022538/ Does this project fix any of the underlying issues.
From the product page: > Why are there so many negative reviews for the BEKANT sit/stand desks? > In 2016, IKEA identified a batch of BEKANT sit/stand desk Power Supply Units and underframes that stopped working after some time. The faults were related to a production flaw. This problem has since been addressed and fixed, so all new BEKANT sit/stand desks and underframes will not have this issue. So they claim the is…
Ikea's standing desks aren't that great. They wobble a lot and then anything attached to it wobbles too. Still looking for the perfect heavy-duty standing desk and heavy-duty VESA arm combo. I don't want anything on my desk moving unless I am moving it myself. To put it this way: if a desk is $500 and wobbles slightly (meaning if I touch the desk or type, my coffee jiggles and waves are seen) or is $1000 and the desk…
Are there any desks that one has uses and really recommends? I'm not entirely sold on motorized desks, so suggestions for mechanical ones?
Rather than being motorized or cranked, the desk's weight is counterbalanced with springs/pneumatics, similar to a garage door. Adjusting the desk is faster and easier than either a motorized or hand-cranked solution, and is completely non-electronic.
The particular desk I linked is quite expensive, there may exist cheaper knockoffs that I'm unaware of. I'm surprised I don't see more counterbalance type sit-stand desks, they're significantly more convenient.
You can often order them through local office supply mom & pops IIRC -- was one of my favorite purchases.
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From the product page: > Why are there so many negative reviews for the BEKANT sit/stand desks? > In 2016, IKEA identified a batch of BEKANT sit/stand desk Power Supply Units and underframes that stopped working after some time. The faults were related to a production flaw. This problem has since been addressed and fixed, so all new BEKANT sit/stand desks and underframes will not have this issue. So they claim the is…
But did they go back and fix the flaw on the desks people had already bought? That seems like a crucial point to calibrate how much I'm going to trust this company with my money.