Tips and Tricks Longer Lasting Forklift Batteries

A cheap and effective solution to the problem of using filtered water. You can attach it to your water line, it is cheap and you get the benefits of filtered water. It's easy to use. You don't have to mess with bottles of filtered water. You can use an automatic water gun and a battery is filled up in seconds rather than the minute or so it takes to pour in filtered water from a bottle, which is probably the main deterrent to using filtered water. This makes filling up easy and painless and eliminates the minerals that pollute the batteries and cause you expense and lost productivity.

Do not allow charging during 15 minute breaks and lunch periods. Batteries are made to draw down 80% and then be full charged. If you opportunity charge you significantly reduce the life of your battery. I think the reason this process starts is when you have under performing batteries, the drivers know this and they try to get a little more charge during their breaks. Opportunity charging accelerates the deterioration of battery performance. If you identify the lesser performing batteries you can avoid this issue. This can reduce battery lift by a year or two, plus you have the cost of electricity for unnecessary charging and the labor cost and lost productivity when a battery needs to be charged.

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Equalizing creates tremendous heat, particularly when a battery is a little older. Heat kills batteries. It sheds the lead. Equalizing can give a temporary boost but the battery is used up more quickly. I go into facilities and literally see batteries steaming from the heat. The temporary boost you get comes at a high cost of shorter battery lift and the costs of increased handling and maintenance.