Electric Brake Release - JLG Toucan 8e Operation And Safety Manual

Electric Brake Release

NOTE: Electrical release of the brakes requires enough battery
power to hold the brakes in released mode until destina-
tion is reached.
Figure 4-12. Electric Brake Release
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1. Chock wheels or secure machine with tow vehicle.
2. Position the key-select-switch to ground control station
(1).
3. Push and hold the enable push button (2).
4. Depress the brake release button (3) for one second to
release the brakes. Once the brakes are released, an
acoustic (discontinuous sound) alarm is triggered.
5. When finished towing depress and hold both the enable
push button (2) and the brake release button (3)
again or power the machine down at the ground control
station to re-engage the brakes.
NOTE: Any action to remove electrical power from the brakes
such as, depressing the ground control emergency stop
switch, or switching the key switch to OFF or PLATFORM
MODE will re-engage the brakes.
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