U.S. Patent Number 5,886,883
When your lift-truck operator is changing NiCads, your lift-truck is non-productive also.

- Dedicated Digital Technology, a Georgia Firm, announces a new soldier in the battle to contain costs yet maintain flexibility in your warehousing operation. The Alternative Power System (APS) is designed to power your barcode scanner directly from the lift truck battery instead of using costly rechargeable batteries.

- This system, which mounts directly on the lift truck, converts the main battery voltage (up to 39 volts) to a clean 7.2 volts supply that will power any barcode scanner or similar terminal, and in the process, it eliminates the battery. It does not, however, require any permanent change to the piece of equipment that it powers. It also has no noticeable effect on the charge cycle of the main lift truck battery.

- Dedicated Digital designed the APS to be effective over a wide range of input power, and deliver from 6 volts to 12 volts of output power. Other voltages are available upon request. This means that practically any battery-powered device you are currently using in your lift truck operation can be adapted to the APS.

- Typical current drain from the lift battery is 80 milli-amps depending on the equipment or terminal you are powering.

- Your operators will no longer stop in the middle of a job because their barcode terminal requires a fresh battery. This alone will significantly increase both lift truck and operator productivity. The drain on the main lift truck battery is hardly even measurable because most battery powered devices run on very low amperage.

- The APS has many advantages over conventional NiCad battery power, and each of these advantages translate into direct cost savings for your operation.

- This also reduces the chances of running out of fully charged and conditioned NiCad batteries for your terminals. And, don’t forget. the less you use your batteries, the fewer batteries you have to buy. At standard battery use rates, operating on a five day workweek around the clock, the return on investment is less than a year.

- The fewer times the terminal is handled, the less likely the chances for an accident. At the cost of barcode terminal repair, this alone is a money saver.

- The APS is designed to work without the NiCad battery in the circuit, but any time you want to restore portability, simply remove the APS and replace the battery and you are back to your original walk-around terminal.

- Dedicated Digital also has a model for the APS that is adaptable to gas powered lift trucks with 12-volt electrical systems.

- You had the wisdom to convert to a barcode driven inventory system, you now have the ability to switch to a more economical method of powering the equipment that you have come to depend upon.