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80 Volt Pneumatic

I am a sales person for a Cat/Clark dealer in FL. I have had a little luck converting IC pneumatic customers to 80 volt this year. We are considering ordering several units for stock and would like to know if any one else has been able to convert and how are the trucks holding up? Have you seen a decrease in your customers operating cost?
  • Posted 20 Jul 2011 00:54
  • By BleedGreen
  • joined 19 Feb'08 - 11 messages
  • Florida, United States
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If the product is sold and an order not taken,,,and you use a true 80 volt approach then you will be successful. Your service department will be your worst headache and problem (doesn't matter whose 80 volt you sell Linde, Jung,) Most service departments are resistent to doing things a different or new way...Most of them can't tell the difference between a monthly PM and scheduled maintenance...
  • Posted 22 Jul 2011 00:06
  • By just_a_guy
  • joined 11 Feb'10 - 16 messages
  • South Carolina, United States
Sold similar units to the power companies in GA called EMC. Units worked well (biggest complaint - the are too quiet for NASCAR country) - the Linde unit and I assume the unit you sold were set up for working in the rain as standard - sealed this & that's water gutters, etc.
Our EMC's are sort of like electrical power co-ops. They are in the business to promote "buying electricity" over natural gas so they need to practice what the preach - I weaved that thought into to my sales pitch (less direct than stated above of course).
Just make certain your service folks are trained on the units & have more than one set of service software to take care of the units. At the time these units were sold the service department was armed with one laptop load with software & one trained tech - a road tech. This caused some issues as you might imagine.
  • Posted 20 Jul 2011 03:22
  • Modified 20 Jul 2011 03:28 by poster
  • By johnr_j
  • joined 3 Jun'06 - 1,452 messages
  • Georgia, United States
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