So we rented 4 good size scissor lifts for the benefit event we've been dealing with... When they came, one was dead, and the other 3 struggled through the first day... Naturally we were pissed, and called the rental company... So we plugged them in to charge overnight, and figured we'd be ok the next day...
Well the next day the lifts started dieing about 4 hours in to the day... Call the company, and they send a tech out the next day... He checks out everything, and the lifts are fine, so his judgement is we're doing something wrong... Now I've run scissors and other types of electric lifts for years... I know how to plug the damn things in, but I went over with him exactly what we plugged them in to, and how long they charged, and that no we were not tripping any breakers...
At any rate, he left confused, and we were left pissed... The next day, I didn't go in as I had to move my girlfriend to a new apartment... My partner called while I was driving down there... He had discovered the problem... The facility guys were shutting off the power to the entire building some time after we left for the day, and kicking it on shortly before we got there in the morning... The lifts were getting about an hour of charge time every night rather than the 8 they require... I'm surprised and impressed that the lifts were giving us as much service as they did...
Who saw that coming...
Posted by Backstage at November 12, 2005 09:34 PM | TrackBack