"David Courtney" wrote in message
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If you're just going to move a few pallets around the shop every day or
load a pick-up truck a couple times a week... couldn't you just gang
together three 12v automotive batteries?
You could charge them separately with a regular 12v automotive battery
charger?
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You probably wouldn't get much running time from just three car batteries.
To increase the running time you could use six or nine batteries in
series-parallel, but then you would have very long charging time trying to
use a regular battery charger. You could hook then in series pairs and
charge them from the 30 volt charger. Mounting that many car batteries in
the fork lift, and hooking and unhooking them for charging would be a bear.

Never mind--it's not a good idea at all. :-)