Parkside PASS 3.6 A1, Operation And Safety Notes

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get the fl uid in your eyes, also seek 
medical advice. 

Leaking battery fl uid can 

cause skin irritation or burns.

6. Service
a)  Have your electric tool repaired only 

by trained personnel using only genu-
ine spare parts

. This will ensure that your 

electric tool remains safe to use. 

 Hold the equipment by the insulated 
handles when carrying out work during 
which the screw or the plug-in tool could 
strike concealed power cables. 

Contact 

with a live cable may also make the metal parts of 
the equipment live and cause an electric shock.

 Additional safety instructions

We pay a great deal of attention to the design of 
every battery pack to ensure that we supply you 
with batteries which feature maximum power den-
sity, durability and safety. The battery cells have a 
wide range of safety devices. Each individual cell 
is initially formatted and its electrical characteristic 
curves are recorded. These data are then used ex-
clusively to be able to assemble the best possible 
battery packs. 

Despite all the safety precau-

tions, caution must always be exercised 
when handling batteries. The following 
points must be obeyed at all times to en-
sure safe use. 
Safe use can only be guaranteed if unda-
maged cells are used. Incorrect handling 
can cause cell damage. 

Important: 

Analyses confi rm that incorrect use 

and poor care are the main causes of the damage 
caused by high performance batteries. 

Information about the battery

• 

 The battery pack supplied with your cordless 
tool is not charged. The battery pack has to 
be charged before you use the tool for the first 
time.

• 

 For optimum battery performance avoid low 
discharge cycles. Charge the battery pack 
frequently.

• 

 Store the battery pack in a cool place, ideally 

at 15°C and charged to at least 40%.

• 

Lithium-ion batteries are subject to a natural 
ageing process. The battery pack must be 
replaced at the latest when its capacity falls 
to just 80% of its capacity when new. Wea-
kened cells in an aged battery pack are no 
longer capable of meeting the high power 
requirements and therefore pose a safety risk.

• 

 Do not throw battery packs into an open fire. 
There is a risk of explosion!

• 

 Do not ignite the battery pack or expose it to 
fire.

• 

Do not exhaustively discharge bat-
teries.

 Exhaustive discharge will damage 

the battery cells. The most common cause of 
exhaustive discharge is lengthy storage or 
non-use of partly discharged batteries. Stop 
working as soon as the performance of the 
battery falls noticeably or the electronic pro-
tection system triggers. Place the battery pack 
in storage only after it has been fully charged.

• 

Protect batteries and the tool from 
overloads. 

Overloads will quickly result in 

overheating and cell damage inside the bat-
tery housing without this overheating actually 
being apparent externally.

• 

Avoid damage and shocks.

 Replace bat-

teries which have been dropped from a height 
of more than one meter or which have been 
exposed to violent shocks without delay, even 
if the housing of the battery pack appears to 
be undamaged. The battery cells inside the 
battery may have suffered serious damage. In 
this respect, please also read the waste dispo-
sal information.

• 

 If the battery pack suffers overloading and 
overheating, the integrated protective cut-off 
will switch off the equipment for safety rea-
sons. 

Important.

 Do not press the ON/OFF 

switch any more if the protective cut-off has 
actuated. This may damage the battery pack.

• 

 Use only original battery packs. The use of 
other batteries may result in injuries, explosion 
and a fire risk.

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