Electric fork truck can run with cable from grid? Urgent!?
We have a big problem: Our two fork trucks are broken down and this for several months. We are recycling pallets and urgently need to load all the accumulated pallets, – we are running out of space! One of our clients wants to give us an electric fork truck for free, because it is old and the batteries are bad and new batteries are very expensive. We can’t effort to buy these but I had the idea that maybe one can give the necessary energy by using the 220V with a cable hanging it high enough, so that the movement of the fork truck is possible in a radio of a few meter. The fork truck works with 24V, so it would be needed a transformer. What kind of transformer 220 to 24 V is needed? Would this work? Is there anything else needed so that it can function? Actually we need the fork truck only twice a week for not more than half an hour, but this is essential to be able to continue with our work.
We would appreciate any advice on this very much…
@adiabati: I thought about it using car batteries, because I have a lot of all sizes (about 200 that show that they still have 12 v, but I don’t know if they are still ok, I can load them to see, but that is a lot of work) the problem is that those car batteries doesn’t fit into the space of the fork truck. I could store the batteries at a place outside and use a long cable to connect to the fork truck through the air, – probably a silly idea indeed… I tried but there are no used batteries available around here. I have a welder and will try this. Thank your for the moment…
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lol thats just a silly idea.
better get the proper batterys what you wanna try is a big maybe then youve just waisted your time. go to a used forklift dealer for batteries they dont have to be new. and will be alot cheaper
you could try a ac/dc arc welder. but most are only rated 200 amps or so at 20-22 volts. for a forklift it might be a little light and if you overloaded the transformer on the welder for long that would ruin it likely. it would have to be a dc one of course. im guessing your best bet is to just buy as many cheap car batteries as is needed to power it. just run them in series to get 24V and if you need lots of power to run the thing use big batteries or use 4 maybe wired in series and also parallel. you could charge the batteries with an dc arc welder too while leaving them wired at 24 V easy enough. if you think that the truck will only draw say 200 amps at most ill bet a welder with a bridge rectifier would be fine but batteries wont be all that much heavier/larger so… might be safer to use batts.