LiFTFORCE Material Handling Battery Operating Instructions 08/01/18
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15% as an indicator to the operator that he should be ready to charge the battery. If the operator ignores
this advice, the battery will automatically shut down at 10% SOC. See below.
The wrench symbol will flash if there is a battery fault. If this occurs please contact an Exide Service
Engineer.
The Opus display can be seen in Figure 4, 5, 6 and 7 below. The Opus will only be fitted to systems where
GNB or the customer requires data logging to assess the duty cycle of their operation. This allows precise
sizing of the battery pack for the most cost effective solution.
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Fig 7
In addition to low SOC warnings, the buzzer will sound on warnings for: Under/Over Voltage, Under/Over
Temperature and LMU (internal electronics) Over Temperature. The system will only shut down for low
SOC. However, if the warnings indicated escalate further, the Battery Management System may take action
by shutting down the battery. If this occurs please contact Exide Service.
5.
OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS
5.1 Start Up and Normal Running
5.1.1 Discharging
At first installation the battery pack should be fully charged and the SOC display should read 100% before
vehicle usage. When the battery pack is first connected to the vehicle or charger it enters Self-check Mode
and the buzzer will sound briefly.
To achieve optimum life time operating depth of discharge of not more than 80% should be applied.