Batteries - General Maintenance; Batteries - Charging; Gasoline/Lpg Fuel Option; Fuel Level - Snorkel S3970BE Operation Manual

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Batteries - General maintenance

Al ways keep the bat ter ies clean, free of dirt and
cor ro sion. A film on top of the bat tery can ac cel er -
ate dis charge.
Cold re duces bat tery ca pac ity and re tards charg -
ing. Heat in creases wa ter us age and can (in ex -
treme cir cum stances) re sult in over charg ing.
Use dis tilled wa ter to re fill the bat ter ies. Avoid wa -
ter con tain ing me tal lic sol ids such as iron.
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Batteries - Charging

Fully re charge the bat ter ies, im me di ately af ter use.
one (1) charg ing cy cle per day is pre ferred. Fully
charged bat ter ies per form best. The deeper the
dis charge, the fewer num ber of cy cles a bat tery will
de liver. deep dis charges de te ri o rate the bat tery
quicker than shal low cy cles.
An overly dis charged bat tery may need to be cy -
cled a few times be fore it can fully re cover. If a bat -
tery be gins to heat be fore be com ing fully charged,
it may be nec es sary to re charge and dis charge the
bat tery a few times.
The S3970RT / S3370RT / S2770RT is equipped
with an au to matic bat tery charger that will com -
pletely re charge the bat ter ies and turn off af ter the
charge cy cle is com pleted.
n Gasoline/LPG Fuel Option
This section ex plains how to start and run the ma -
chine that has a gas o line en gine. Start ing a gas o -
line en gine that is set up to burn LP-only or
dual-fuel is also dis cussed in this section. Read
and un der stand all the pre vi ous chap ters be fore
you be gin to op er ate the ma chine
The S3970RT / S3370RT / S2770RT has the op -
tion of be ing pow ered by a gas o line en gine. If it has
a gas o line en gine you need to know whether it is
set up to burn LP-only, or dual-fuel (LP or gas o -
line). If it is set up to burn dual-fuel you have to de -
cide whether to burn gas o line or LP. The sim plest
way to tell what kind of en gine set up you have is to
look in the fuel com part ment on the left side of the
S3970RT / S3370RT / S2770RT open both fuel
com part ment doors.
If the only fuel source you see there is a
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tank labeled GASOLINE FUEL, the
S3970RT / S3370RT / S2770RT has a
gasoline engine set up to burn gasoline.
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If the only fuel source you see is one (1) or
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more LP tanks, the S3970RT / S3370RT /
S2770RT has a special gasoline engine
set up to burn LP-only.
If you see a GASOLINE FUEL tank and
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one (1) or more LP tanks, the S3970RT /
S3370RT / S2770RT has a special
gasoline engine set up to burn either
gasoline or LP.
Once you have de ter mined the type of en gine in -
stalled and the type of fuel you will burn you should
go to the cor re spond ing sub sec tion be low that ex -
plains how to start that type en gine.
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Fuel Level

Check the level of gas o line in the fuel tank and/or
the amount of LP gas in the cyl in der(s). To check
the amount of LP gas read the fuel  me ter (see
Fig ure 11.10).
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LPG Tank Gauges & Fuel Level
Figure 11.10 - Fuel Level Gauge
LPG tanks have two (2) fuel gauges on top. One
mea sures cor rectly when the tank is stand ing on
end (VERTICAL) € the other mea sures cor rectly
when the tank is lay ing down (HORIZONTAL) 
Both read in frac tions-of-a-full-tank. (see Fig ure
11.10).
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