At Shoppa's Material Handling we represent a full line of products including, but not limited to, Toyota forklifts, narrow aisle and aerial trucks, utility vehicles, all-make parts, used equipment, equipment rentals, rack and shelving, the Advance line of Industrial Floor Cleaning Equipment, warehouse products, safety training and products, and warehouse design/installation/tear-down/liquidation. We look forward to seeing you at one of our many stores located in Saginaw, Amarillo, Brownwood, Fort Worth, Lubbock, Odessa, San Angelo, Wichita Falls and Kansas City.
Hey that's my buddy Tim Williams Sr. The top tech there. Cool dude. He punked out Pablo Canela, their tire girl, at work. Tim is such a bad ass tech, that Pablo got in trouble for telling on Tim. Lmbo. Tim Jr and Johnny Williams are also good techs and good ppl.
They have such idiots in management, that they promote the guy that steals from them both by taking inventory and by not doing a damn thing. Pablo Canela got his little secretary tire postion by snitching and brown nosing.
If you need forklift tires, don't buy them from Shoppa's directly. Their so called "tire lead" Pablo, steals them from the company and sells them at pennies on the dollar.
How low should I let the forklift's charge get before recharging. We do not use our lift but I few hours a week. We are typically using 1/2 of the charge per week. Should I simply recharge over the weekend at the end of the week or let the charge get lower before charging?
Well done, except, the verbiage in the industry is flawed. You mentioned... Boil over. Yes the batteries can boil over, but NOT due to heat. A battery should never be HOT. 149 degrees is the danger zone. 161 is the catastrophic zone where the battery is degrading! When Battery Professionals speak of a boil over, it is actually due to the acid going in and out of the plates. As a battery functions, the acid enters the plates. At charging the acid is pushed out. There is only so much physical room in the cell. So. If you water a battery at a discharged state, the acid will come out during the charge cycle and literally push the acid and water mixture out of the cells but not due to heat, due to physical room and expansion of volume due to the suspended acids coming out of the cells and needing space.
YES! Incorrect! IF you have a manual charger with a mechanical timer and it's set to 48 volts. You plug it into a lift with any computer systems and the lift is a 36 volt or a 24 volt, smaller than the set voltage of the mechanical charger, turn on the mechanical charger. YES. YOU CAN DESTROY THE COMPUTER COMPONENTS. LIKE A MODERN CAR, THE COMPUTER IS ACTIVE ON MANY TYPES OF EQUIPMENT. I HAVE SEEN IT HAPPEN. CUSTOMER NEGLIGENCE. Customer pay. Unfortunately, it was on a rental truck.
Thank you for this clear and necessary narration of battery maintenance procedures. About adding water ONLY after charging fully? We too have had clueless workers flood electrolyte all over- even onto the floor! ONE TIP for REALLY low batteries in very low use lifts. (We've had to charge batteries where the acid level is out of sight!.. So we make sure to bring water up just enough to cover all the plate surfaces, and THEN fully charge. This (so far) has never overflowed AND prevents charging only part of the plate surfaces, .
