Customer Reviews

Neiko 880 Lb. Electric Hoist - With Remote Control

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Installed in the attic space over my garage where we store seasonal stuff. Seems to be heavy duty and worked well right out of the box. I had to modify the mounting brackets to add heavy duty eye bolts so I could mount it to the ridge beam. I think they should provide several mounting options in addition to tubular steel. Other than that, I am quite satisfied with the product. Note: There is also a "professional model" with the same 880 lb lift rate for an additional $10-15. All the motor specs etc. are the same as the 880 lb model I bought for $104. Puzzling???

I used this hoist as a winch to tow my light (but not that light)aircraft back into a hangar. It was delivered as scheduled and performs well. Naturally it required a modification to the normal mounting technique for my application. That would have been easier for if the mounting bolts were US/English Standard instead of metric.

This hoist worked well for a year then when a cold spell hit it wouldn't work at all. Once it warmed up the up control button worked but the down control button did not. Incidentally, the up button became functionally the down button and visa versa. Looked for the user manual and found no reference to the manufacturer probably because they don't want to hear from you when their product breaks down.

I installed this in the rafters in my garage to lift up my Thule Cargo Box. It works great for that purpose. As others have mentioned the supplied mounting system is a bit unusual. It is designed to bolt onto a 1.75" square bar. I can't fathom where that is commonly available. I attached a couple of roof anchors) to my rafters, then with some missing links, eye bolts and other parts from the local hardware store suspended a 1.25" square bar (the largest carried by the local big box). I used a few scraps of 1/2" and 1/4" bar to keep things from sliding around.

A few other notes might be useful. The power cord and the cord for the remote control are both about 6' long. The cable is fairly long, around 30' as I recall. It easily reached from the rafters down to the garage floor. It easily lifts my fairly lightweight cargo box with no sign of strain. Starts and stops aren't perfectly smooth but they aren't horribly jerky either.

All in all I'm fairly impressed, particularly for the price.

I bought this item with great trepidation as it has had a very mixed bag of reviews on Amazon. Add me to the negative list. The item didn't work right out of the box and the owners manual, obviously written by an oriental person with very little command of the English language, was a great comic read, but no help with the defective product. I wasn't out any money after a refund, but very disappointed in not being able to use the electric lift in my new garage. I declined a replacement product due to a very bad feeling about the product after reading the owners manual. For the happy ending, however, please read my review of the 3" National pulleys I used instead.