Re Curtis, I was told by the head service manager of the dealer corporate headquarters it was a Curtis controller. That inspired me to take a look at it. The data plate is Jungheinrich but it does look absolutely identical to the Curtis 1234E, which has a unique design on the case.

This reminds me of something I haven't mentioned in this thread...and that is, I also own an older version of this same pallet jack...the CAT WR6000 (which as most of you know, is really a Jungheinrich with a CAT sticker) Bought it used about a year ago, and unlike this new one accelerates smooth as silk.

So now you are wondering why did I buy the new one in the first place... LOL....well, the CAT has 8 foot forks and is therefore relegated to a few specific uses in my business...like moving automatic bandsaws in 7 x 7 foot crates. But the forks are just too long to manuver in most of the shop for the other machine moves.

Also due to the 8 foot fork model being a "not needed much, but when needed, needed really bad" situation, I never bought a proper battery for it and get by with a couple of deep cycle marine batteries, so it's not much use for my upcoming major use situation for that reason as well as the "too long" forks.

The irony is I bought the new Jungheinrich because I like the old one so much ! Never in my wildest imagination did I think a new one would be *worse*.

When I've complained about the performance of the new one and mentioned how smooth the old one is the standard response is "well yes, the old one has a different controller !" As if that is supposed to help me accept the new one runs so bad ?? Almost like saying "well yes, the old models had a good controller and the new models have a crappy controller !"

Anyhoo, enough for now....gotta get to work...thanks for the responses folks.