Or a blackout. If you are in a winter affected area, knowing that there was a tank or gearbox heater with a solenoid monitoring temperature would be something that cheered you up in knowing the lift would be reliable. I'd sooner have the snow and ice melted off as it landed. I'd like to see a key switch to run it, rather than think the kids down the street could play with it. Another liability thing that is easy to avoid.
Speed costs dollars, typically.
So speed here is not really important in most cases. The reason its not so important is that we are only going to use this lift type for travel of probably four to six feet vertically. Once you get above that, you have to start looking at upping the typical 10-15 fpm speed, usually at some cost. I do not like this lift being used much more than six feet, unless there are really good reasons. At the top level, we have to have some protection from falling off the deck through the lift entry space and down some distance.