If your facility is involved with heavy manufacturing wherein you use large amounts of power for a variety of activities, and where battery charging is a small percentage of your total power consumption, a single station charger may be your best bet.

But if you operate a distribution center or similar facility, wherein battery charging is a significant percentage of your total building power, use of a multi-station charger will most likely be required.

A proper fast charge solution for such a facility involves a balance between two contradictory requirements:

• Keep the trucks running

  - versus -

• Avoid increased utility peak demand power charges due to power demand spikes from short intensive charging periods during breaks
• Avoid a high connected electrical load and substation costs
• Avoid high circuit installation costs

Applying high power single station fast chargers to simultaneously charge all trucks at the same time (whether they need charging or not) causes power spikes that can trigger additional utility charges. The result is a waste of precious facility peak power and only a partial fast charge solution.

Minit-Charger multi-station chargers strike this balance by providing maximum charge to trucks - automatically and uniquely - by prioritizing trucks according to charge need - every time a truck is connected. And, typically, all trucks are charged during a normal connect period. The result: get more with less - all trucks keep running, batteries stay cool and utility peak demand power is minimized.

Additionally, over 80% of Minit-Charger customers use Minit-Charger's Priority Charge Technology operated with staggered breaks. This operation mode assures the best of both worlds:

• Highest charge return
• Low peak demand power
• High charger equipment utilization rates