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LD Cart Transporter User's Manual
14766-000 Rev H
8.4 Startup
We recommend that you do a battery swap weekly, at a minimum. If you see a reduc-
tion in run-time, you should do a swap more often than that.
NOTE:
The longer you wait to balance a battery, the longer it will take to
balance. A battery that is badly out of balance can take well over 10 hours
to balance after charging.
8.4 Startup
Procedure
Press and hold the ON button for 0.5 s, then release. It takes about a minute for all the systems
to start up and make their various interconnections. If the platform doesn't start up, try power
OFF, check your connections, and then power ON.
Startup is complete when the Light Discs stop indicating boot (two blue light segments, mov-
ing in opposite directions from 6 o'clock to 12 o'clock and back).
Joystick
The joystick lets you quickly move the platform to its destination. This can be used to drive it
from the shipping dock to an automated docking station.
IMPORTANT:
The joystick should be locked up when not in use, to prevent
unauthorized operation of an AMR.
Figure 8-4. Joystick, (A) Speed Control, (B) Goal Button, (C) Directional Control, and (D) Trigger
The joystick plugs into the left side of the platform, under the small access panel at the upper
right corner of the platform. (The Maintenance Ethernet port is also there.) The access panel is
held in place with a push-push latch, and retained by a lanyard.
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CAUTION:
PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE RISK
The platform safety scanning laser will not trigger the E-Stop chain when
driven using the joystick. Although the safety scanning laser is integrated with
the emergency stop circuit at all times, the operator must maintain full control
of the pendant functions and the AMR when the pendant is in use.
