From: Ryan Campbell
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 1:29 PM
To: _Regional_Operations_Managers; ; Vince Halboth
Subject: FW: What Canada has to say about Battery Equaliser
 
I sent this info out to you guys a while ago about the Battery Equaliser additive for your fork trucks. We have had it in our trucks for about a month or so now and it has proven to extend the charge life in our trucks. Since we only have 4 trucks, the overall savings is small compared to what most of you could see. The additive is a once a year deal that shows benefits after 5 days. If you are using battery change stations and swapping out batteries, this will help there to in reducing the time it take to cycle a charge for each unit. I know that some of you have brought in some to try, but if you haven’t, I would recommend it.
 
We used to have to put trucks back onto chargers mid day to ensure we would make it through shipping, but with doing nothing other than adding this stuff to each of the batteries, we have not had to do that in over a month now. The batteries are holding the charge hours longer than they have in the past. This would be a great benefit to all DC’s.
 
Rich Alapack is the contact in the USA for this stuff. Get it in your trucks and you will see the savings.
 
Ryan.

 
SUMMARY:

The letter is a good observation of the obvious improved performance, but there are more benefits to be considered:
•    More efficient asset allocation (the man and the forklift are on the job)
•    Energy savings (not having to charger at peak time)
•    Longer battery life (a convenience charge robs the battery of one life cycle, so that’s 2 per day)
•    A battery should cool 6 hrs after a charge (with a convenience charge that is not allowed to happen)