Just joking here... nothing serious in this post.
I think I am going to insist that [around here] they change what we call these older cobbled together 'fine pieces of equipment'. sometimes they are referred to with/as my last name, or sometimes we call them as "john Player's" with regard to another Forkliftaction poster in this part of the woods.
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I think we can call them RCav8or's... and then explain they used to live in Alabama?
if we knew who swoop was, we would call them -all- his...
[sometimes I crack my self up... I am so funny]
I better have some coffee b4 I post much more.
Yes sir bbforks but the downfall is locating parts for some of these seasoned heaps. I am sure contactor assemblies for these will be fun to find well as tips. After many years of different techs,the wiring gets all modified and you are left scratching your head at the wadded up mess if wires and at some peoples handy work. Worked on an old hybrid (eaton/yale/towmotor or a combination of) once that had a 4 cylinder LP Continental engine turning a generator that in turn powered contactors and eventually electric drive motors. The wiring looked like the under dash of a teenagers car who couldn't decide what amp and radio to settle on or where to connect wires. Wiring was all electrical tape with perhaps an essence of original insulation. A complete nightmare!
Isn't trevb talking about the curtis 833? That one is used till mid 90's iirc. I have a couple of NOS ones.
I thought I was the only one working on dinosaurs that old! It is kind of rewarding to keep the ole lifts running
Finally found out what these little jewel were for and trevb nailed it. Seems the fossils of the world (dumb systems) had no way to let you know when battery was getting low other than BDI if equipped. Then one day a brilliant company come up with a lil add on module that would cut hydraulics when battery voltage was getting close to battery rated voltage. Apparently these modules were sold to about every battery supplier known for units that did not have oem pump cut cards already installed. These were probably installed by a lift dealer tech or battery tech. Finding these Exide pump cutters are near impossible. Just today i had to remove 2 of these cards that were mounted on a couple of fossils (Yale model k66c and Hyster e40ac) to regain hydraulics. One had sat 2 years and the other several months before i took a look at them. Shame i couldn't find a exact replacements for these but customer wanted them off period. What the customer wanted, the customer got.
seem to think it was a very early battery discharge sensor to cut lift out when battery low, used to see a type with two turn dials on a small box to set it never really knew what it did though