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reverse polarity battery

I bought a battery and they sent the battery with the polarity reversed. It got hooked up and no the horn goes off non stop with power hooked up but i get no reponse from any other light or screen on the forklift. Is their reverse polarity reset or did my forklift just get ruined. Id love any help please and thankyou.
  • Posted 6 Dec 2023 04:01
  • By jrbacon85
  • joined 6 Dec'23 - 2 messages
  • Minnesota, United States
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Go after battery manufacturer for all costs associated
Could have caused explosion or fire in your facility
And you should have reached out, alot of good cards in older trade ins that are getting scraped
  • Posted 16 Dec 2023 00:50
  • Modified 16 Dec 2023 00:52 by poster
  • By Matthew_Reed
  • joined 12 Jun'23 - 113 messages
  • New York, United States
So yeah just an update. After hooking it up correctly nothing happened. I caved and had a toyota tech come look at it. It fried the 2 main cards and the display card. It turns out they do not have any protection on this model. I have a company repairing the boards now. it actually blew 3 mosfets out on the one board. The other 2 were in cased but you could smell them. They had let out the magic smoke. Thanks for your help. For anyone reading this i can only stress if you buy a battery. double check the battery cables are hooked up to the correct terminals, not just looking at the color.
  • Posted 15 Dec 2023 23:09
  • Modified 15 Dec 2023 23:13 by poster
  • By jrbacon85
  • joined 6 Dec'23 - 2 messages
  • Minnesota, United States
Did you rehook the battery up correctly and still are getting nothing?
  • Posted 15 Dec 2023 16:31
  • By Matthew_Reed
  • joined 12 Jun'23 - 113 messages
  • New York, United States

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