What Sling, Lift Capacity and Battery Does the HoistAssist Hoist Have?

The HoistAssist hoist is published with a lifting capacity of about 440 lbs, a hoist seat with a safety harness rather than a separate sling, and a long-life battery with a charge indicator. No battery run time, charging time or sling size is printed anywhere, because the spec sheet is the only document published for this system, as What Is HoistAssist on a Walk-In Tub? explains. This page gathers every published hoist figure in one place, says what each one means for your bathroom, and lists the questions that are best answered for your specific order.

The Published Hoist Figures at a Glance

The HoistAssist is model Transfer3060HL, a battery-powered hoist paired with a 60 inch walk-in tub, shell LOLA3060. The hoist belongs only to this model, and it is ordered as part of the system with the tub. Everything in the table below comes from the published spec sheet. Where the sheet is silent, the cell says not listed, so you can see at a glance what is known and what still needs a conversation.

What the differences mean: the three things people ask about most have three different levels of answer. The lift capacity is a firm published figure, so you can plan around it. The sling question has a clear answer in kind, a seat with a safety harness, but no sizes or materials are printed. Battery life has no published figure at all, only the description long-life and the presence of a charge indicator. Plan around the first, confirm the second for your bather, and ask about the third before you rely on it.

A Seat and Harness Rather Than a Sling

If you have used a floor lift at home, you may be expecting a fabric sling that wraps under the bather. The HoistAssist is described differently. The bather is secured in the hoist seat with its safety harness, and the battery-powered lift raises the seat so the caregiver can lower the bather into the tub and lift them out again after the bath. In the published description, a bather who cannot bear weight or slide across is lifted in the hoist seat over the door opening and lowered into the water.

That is the full published sequence: secure, raise, lower, then the reverse after the bath. No harness size range, harness material or replacement harness part number is listed, so if the bather is very small, very tall or needs particular trunk support, raise that before ordering. How a caregiver should lift or steady a particular person is a question for that person's physical or occupational therapist, a point made in Transfer Techniques by Walk-In Tub Door Type, which also shows how the HoistAssist differs from every door-based transfer in the Ella lineup.

If your household already owns a floor lift with its own sling and you want to keep using it, the comparison changes. Which Ella Walk-In Tub Works With a Hoyer Lift or Patient Lift? explains that the HoistAssist is the tub the team points to when a lift is part of the plan, because the lift is part of the product. It also explains that anyone planning to use their own floor lift with another caregiver tub should share the make and model of that lift so approach and clearance can be discussed.

What the Battery Line Does and Does Not Tell You

The spec sheet describes a long-life battery with a charge indicator, and the lift itself is battery powered. That is genuinely useful. The indicator shows the charge, so a glance at it before a bath tells you where the battery stands before anyone is in the seat. Here is what the published material does not include:

• How many lifts or how much time a full charge provides.
• How long a full charge takes.
• The battery type, or a replacement battery part number.
• Charger details or any other electrical details for the hoist.

Because there is no owner's manual, brochure or dedicated warranty document online for the HoistAssist, battery care, lift operation, electrical details and coverage questions are all handled through a support ticket. When you open one, the state of the battery indicator is one of the things the team asks for, so make a note of what it shows whenever something seems off.

Planning Around the 440 Lb Capacity and the Seat Travel

The lifting capacity is about 440 lbs, and that figure describes the hoist. The tub it serves measures 60 by 29 1/2 by 39 1/4 inches, weighs 233 lbs and holds 70 to 76 gallons in operation. Its aluminum door and frame give a 39 1/4 inch opening with a 12 1/4 inch clearance height. The seat travels from about 18 7/8 inches to 42 1/2 inches above the floor, so the top of its travel sits well above that clearance height, which is what allows the bather to be carried over the opening and then lowered into the water.

The hoist rolls up to the tub door, and at about 48 7/8 by 47 by 27 3/8 inches it needs real floor space. Those hoist dimensions are conversions, because the sheet prints them in metric. A few planning points carry over from the published lift guidance:

• A lift needs a clear path to the tub and room for its base, so check the route from the bedroom or hallway as well as the bathroom floor.
• Plan the drain runs with your plumber before the floor is closed, and route them so nothing sits where the lift base needs to go.
• The HoistAssist drain is a 2 inch horizontal PVC drain with a plunger-and-chain stopper rather than the cable opener used on other Ella tubs, so mention the model whenever you ask about drain parts.

If the bather can slide across from a wheelchair with help, a powered lift may be more than you need. Assisted Bathing Options Compared sets the HoistAssist beside the HomeCare, the CareGiver and the standard Transfer tubs so you can match the level of help to the bather.

What to Ask, and What to Have Ready

Since several answers are not in print, a short list of questions saves time. Your Ella dealer or the team at (800) 480-6850 can take these before you order, and owners can open a ticket at ellasbubbles.com/support.

1. Ask what a full charge provides and how the battery is charged and cared for.
2. Ask about harness fit for your bather, and how a replacement harness or battery is identified.
3. Ask for the hoist's footprint against your floor plan, including where it will be kept between baths.
4. Ask any coverage question directly, because no dedicated HoistAssist warranty document is published.

For a ticket on a HoistAssist you already own, have the tub serial number, a description of what the hoist or tub is doing, the state of the battery indicator, and photos or a short video. The full list of published figures for the system, including the tub options and certifications, is in HoistAssist and CareGiver Assisted-Bathing Systems: What Is Published.

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