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Luvxom SH-8012

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Luvxom SH-8012

Product Code: HFAF-SAS-3021

180° of swing, 360° of rotation, and up to 11 kg.

A spring-balanced arm that swings 180 degrees, rotates a full circle and pitches 90 up and 25 down, gripping anything up to 85 millimetres thick. Three load bands run from half a kilogram up to eleven.

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China

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Supplier: Medigear

Swinging 180 degrees, tilting through 115 degrees, and rotating a full circle, the SH-8012 is LUVXOM's mechanical spring lifting bracket for shared clinical workstations. Elevation runs to 90 degrees, depression to 25 degrees. The lifting range is 280 mm; the mounting interface is VESA 75 by 75 and 100 by 100 mm, and the arm weighs 4.5 kg. Three load bands are available: 0.5 to 3 kg, 1 to 6 kg and 3 to 11 kg. The clamp accepts material up to 85 mm thick, with extension pieces stackable beyond that, and the finish is aluminium alloy in white, silver or black.

That movement envelope is the whole argument, and it targets a particular kind of position. The Schedule to the Display Screen Equipment Regulations 1992 requires a screen to swivel and tilt easily and freely to suit the operator, and HSE guidance notes that height adjustment earns its keep, especially where a number of different people use the same workstation. A nurse station, a ward terminal or a clinic room desk is used by a dozen people of different heights across a shift, none of whom will move furniture to get comfortable. A published envelope is what lets each of them move the screen instead.

The counterweight is that fitting one changes the workstation, and a change to the workstation triggers a fresh DSE assessment. The other gap is reach. No extension distance is published, and reach determines both whether the screen can be pushed back to free the surface and how much leverage the desk edge carries.

Nothing packed is published. Medigear.uk lists the SH-8012 for UK business buyers. Request the reach at full extension, the minimum desk thickness, the load band supplied, and the clamp force from the seller before ordering.

The SH-8012 belongs in a position that several people use. Nurse stations, ward terminals, clinic room desks, reception and booking points, prescribing terminals, and reporting workstations are all shared across a shift by staff of different heights who will not adjust furniture to get comfortable. They will move a screen, and a published movement envelope makes that worth doing rather than a struggle.

The regulatory backdrop is unusually direct here. The Schedule to the Display Screen Equipment Regulations requires that a screen swivel and tilt easily and freely to suit the operator, and allows for a separate base or an adjustable table to achieve it. HSE guidance adds that height adjustment devices are not essential but are a useful way to set the screen correctly for the worker, especially where different people use the same workstation. That is the case for this product, as stated by the regulator rather than by a manufacturer.

Freeing the surface is the second reason departments buy arms, and it is the one this sheet cannot support. In a clinic room, the desk does double duty as a writing surface and an examination bench for notes and forms, and an arm's value is that the screen swings away when the surface is needed. Without a published reach, nobody can tell in advance how much surface comes back.

Buying runs through the usual routes. NHS Supply Chain, trust framework agreements, Integrated Care Boards, private hospitals and clinics each apply their own standing financial instructions, and workstation equipment is normally cleared by health and safety or occupational health rather than infection prevention. The manufacturer issues documentation for the load-bearing and finish supplier, and the seller provides it.

The full movement envelope is published.

One hundred and eighty degrees of swing, 360degrees of rotation, 90degrees up and 25degrees down, and 280 mm of lift. Four axes with figures against them means you can assess a position on paper against the people who will use it, rather than after installation, when the arm is already on the desk.

It answers a stated regulatory requirement.

The DSE Schedule requires a screen to swivel and tilt easily and freely to suit the operator, and permits a separate base to achieve it. An arm with a published envelope is the most direct way of meeting that wording, and the paper trail runs from the regulation to the specification without interpretation in between.

Three load bands rather than one

Bands at 0.5 to 3 kg, 1 to 6 kg and 3 to 11 kg cover everything from a tablet to a substantial display. Matching the band to the screen is what keeps a spring arm balanced, and a range this wide means one product family can serve very different positions across a site.

Eleven kilograms at the top of the range

The upper band supports a screen size the VESA patterns genuinely support, so the interface and the load rating point at the same display rather than different ones. That is worth confirming at order, but it means large shared-terminal screens are within scope.

Nothing is drilled

A clamp fixes to furniture rather than to the building. No substrate survey, no anchor selection, no making good, no penetration through a floor or wall finish, and no estates job order. It can also be moved when the position changes.

Three colour options

White, silver, and black are unusual on a sheet like this, and it matters where equipment is colour-coded by area or must match existing furniture across a department. Confirm that all three carry the same finish specification.

Spring balance rather than friction alone

A mechanical spring holds position through the travel rather than relying on joint friction that has to be reset as it wears. Where the band is matched to the screen, the arm stays where it is left without anyone tightening anything.

Nothing powered, nothing to test

The arm draws no current and holds no electronic components. It sits outside portable appliance testing and every electrical safety scheme the provider runs. Anything electrical belongs to the display and its supply.

The open questions are all dimensions.

Reach, minimum desk thickness, clamp force, screen centre heights. Each is a measurement the manufacturer already has, and none requires a new test. What comes back, and how quickly, says something useful about the supplier.

Mechanical spring lifting mechanism

The manufacturer names the product as a mechanical spring lifting bracket. No spring type, preload adjustment method or cycle life is published.

Lifting range: 280 mm

Vertical travel is published at 280 mm. The screen centre heights at the top and bottom of that travel, measured from the mounting surface, are not given.

Left and right swing 180°

Horizontal swing is published at 180 degrees. No statement is made about whether the range can be limited at installation.

Pitch 90° elevation and 25° depression

Tilt is published as 90 degrees up and 25 degrees down, a total range of 115 degrees. The description does not mention any friction adjustment for the tilt axis.

Rotation 360°

The listing states full rotation, allowing portrait and landscape orientation. No detent or lock is mentioned.

Three load bands

Load-bearing range is published as 0.5 to 3 kg, 1 to 6 kg, or 3 to 11 kg. The bands overlap, and the sheet does not state how to select a band or which ships against an order.

VESA 75 × 75 and 100 × 100 mm

Both common mounting patterns are published. No maximum screen diagonal is stated, so the load band is the operative limit.

Clamp capacity 85 mm

The clamp accepts material up to 85 mm thick, with extension pieces that can be stacked beyond that. No minimum thickness, clamp force, torque figure or contact depth is published.

Arm weight: 4.5 kg

The arm's own mass is published at 4.5 kg, which adds to whatever the screen contributes to the load carried by the desk edge.

Three colour options

White, silver and black are offered. No finish type, coating specification or durability rating is published for any of them.

Aluminium alloy construction

The main material is listed as aluminium alloy. No alloy designation, temper, wall thickness or section is published.

Reach not published

No horizontal extension figure appears, which leaves both the amount of surface freed and the leverage on the desk edge unquantified.

Mounting options not published.

No grommet, through-bolt or freestanding base is described, and no reinforcement plate is mentioned for thin or hollow-cored surfaces.

Cable management not published.

No routing channel, clip, cover or cable diameter allowance is described.

No electrical parts

The arm carries no current and contains no electronic components, so it falls outside portable appliance testing and every electrical safety scheme a provider operates.

Cleaning products not published

No recommended cleaning or disinfection product appears for the aluminium or any of the three finishes.

The SH-8012 publishes four axes of movement with figures for each, three load bands, a clamp capacity, an arm mass and both common mounting patterns. That is enough to specify a shared workstation properly, and the movement envelope maps directly onto what the DSE Schedule asks a screen support to do. Two things are missing and both matter: the reach, which decides how much surface actually comes back and how hard the desk edge works, and the minimum desk thickness, which is the end of the clamp range where things go wrong. Medigear.uk lists the SH-8012 for UK business buyers and can arrange delivery, installation, commissioning, familiarisation and service cover. Request the reach at full extension, the minimum desk thickness, the clamp force and the load band supplied by the seller in the quotation.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything buyers need to know about sourcing medical equipment through MediGear.

Unpublished, and it is the one dimension a buyer of an arm like this needs most. Every other axis is given — 180 degrees of swing, 360 of rotation, 90 up and 25 down, 280 mm of lift — and the horizontal extension is absent. That figure decides two separate things. It decides whether the screen can be pushed back far enough to free the working surface for notes, a keyboard or a procedure, which is the main reason a department buys an arm rather than a stand. It also affects leverage at the desk edge, because the farther the screen sits from the clamp, the harder the desk works. Ask for reach at full extension, minimum retracted depth, and a dimensioned drawing.

Good question, and the sheet does not answer it. The published bands are 0.5 to 3 kg, 1 to 6 kg and 3 to 11 kg, and they overlap deliberately: a 3 kg display falls inside all three, a 2 kg display inside two. That pattern indicates the bands are separate spring assemblies rather than a single adjustable one, and the choice is about where the balance sits in the range rather than simply whether the weight fits. A screen at the very bottom of a band will tend to rise, and one at the very top will tend to sink. Weigh the display, aim for the middle of a band rather than an edge, and specify the band on the order.

Thicker rather than thinner, and the sheet only gives you one end of the range. It states a capacity of 85 mm, with extension pieces stackable beyond it, and no minimum thickness appears at all. The missing end is the one that fails. A clamp concentrates high local pressure into a small contact area, and thin tops, hollow-core tops, and honeycomb-cored furniture can crush, mark, or let the clamp pull through even when the surface feels rigid. Ask for a minimum thickness, a clamp force or torque figure, the clamp contact depth, and whether a reinforcement plate is supplied or available.

Yes, if a display screen equipment user uses the position. The Display Screen Equipment Regulations 1992, as amended in 2002, require employers to assess workstations used by habitual users, and a change to the workstation triggers a fresh assessment. Fitting an arm is a change. That is not a reason to avoid it, since the Schedule's requirement that the screen swivel and tilt freely is precisely what an arm delivers. Still, it means you should plan the purchase and reassessment together rather than discovering it afterwards. Budget the assessment time alongside the hardware.

Possibly, and it changes the question being asked. A clamp will grip a trolley rail or a mobile workstation top as readily as a desk, but a trolley is free to tip where a desk is not. Adding 4.5 kg of arm plus up to 11 kg of screen at some unpublished distance from the centre of a wheeled base alters that base's stability, and the assessment belongs to whoever puts the combination together. If the trolley also carries medical electrical equipment, the resulting system has its own stability and support requirements, and the assembler carries them. Ask the trolley manufacturer before the arm supplier.

Both ends of that question are answered here, which is unusual. The interface is VESA 75 by 75 and 100 by 100 mm, and the top load band reaches 11 kg, so a substantial display is genuinely within scope rather than merely bolting on. Confirm the display's own backplate pattern from its manual rather than its marketing copy, weigh it including any attached stand adaptor, and check that figure against the band actually supplied. No maximum screen diagonal is published, so the mass figure is the real limit.

Not stated. The sheet describes a clamp and the extension pieces that go with it, and says nothing about a bolt-through or grommet base. That matters where a desk has a bevelled or rounded edge, sits flush against a wall, has no accessible underside, or is glass or hollow-cored, because in those cases a clamp has nothing usable to grip. Ask whether a grommet or through-bolt base is available for the same arm, and what hole diameter it needs.

A usable spread between a seated and a standing eye line, provided the mounting point is chosen with both in mind. Nearly 30 cm of vertical travel covers most of the difference between a short user seated and a tall user standing in the same position, which HSE guidance singles out as benefiting most from height adjustment. The travel relative to the desk surface is not published and is determined partly by the arm geometry, so ask for the lowest and highest screen centre heights measured from the mounting surface.

On the published wording, very probably not. The arm has no medical purpose of its own, and the accessory route does not obviously apply. An accessory must be intended by its manufacturer for use with one or several particular medical devices. That connection has to be to named devices rather than to screens in general if the supplier claims accessory status; ask which named devices. If not, the duties apply to anyone supplying an article for use at work under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, with the General Product Safety Regulations, the employer's duties under PUWER, and the DSE obligations described above.

By local policy, because no product is recommended. National guidance expects shared patient-care equipment to be decontaminated with products recommended by the manufacturer, and none appears here for the aluminium or its finish. The arm sits at a workstation that is touched constantly and cleaned frequently, and three colour options mean three finish specifications that may behave differently. Request a written compatibility statement covering the finish supplied, and ask specifically whether chlorine-releasing agents mark or strip it.

Any position where the desk thickness is unknown, or the top is hollow-cored, until the minimum thickness and clamp force arrive—any bevelled, glass or wall-flush surface, where a clamp has nothing to hold. Anyone specifying without knowing the reach, since reach is what determines whether the surface is actually freed. And any mobile workstation where nobody has reassessed tipping stability with 15 kg added off-centre. For a solid fixed desk at a shared clinical position, with the band matched to the screen, it does exactly what the DSE Schedule asks a screen support to do.

Send it as one list. It covers reach at full extension and minimum retracted depth, a dimensioned drawing, the lowest and highest screen centre heights from the mounting surface, the minimum desk thickness, clamp force or torque, clamp contact depth, whether a reinforcement plate is supplied, whether a grommet or through-bolt base exists and its hole diameter, which of the three load bands ships and how it is selected, the maximum screen diagonal, cable management provision, the finish specification for each colour with a cleaning compatibility statement, the packed dimensions and mass, and the warranty.