Elevator Forum

I think on the old Otis stuff the C contactor was the safety string contactor, it pulls in when your safety string is made. Sounds like your safety st...

I'm with you, it is very annoying when folks don't wire things right. I had a car we picked up fail Inspection on an annual because I told the inspect...

Goodluck. In my experience the manufacturer is ridiculous to work with. They won't help anyone whose not a dealer. Your best bet is to contact dealers...

Gotta love them old independent elevators. Around here we have a ton of Salem and Monarch elevators. They're almost all geared overhead tractions with...

Just replaced a smartrise brake board, capacitor literally blew the top of itself out. Seems like they're using too small components and pushing them ...

Iboxs are probably the easiest controller to do a five year test on. All the tests are done through the Iview computer. You literally go to the tests ...

I personally would put some weight in the car to get it close to balanced to the cwt and then remove the comp ropes and fix the sheave. You could do t...

I guess what im trying to say is i don't find it that odd that even though a manufacturer came out with a updated board to address an issue that there...

I haven't had that issue in particular but I'm not suprised by what your saying. GAL didn't come up with a newer version of that board for fun. It sou...

I haven't adjusted that on a 211 but hitting the door close button should put the controller into short door time. It should be a seperate adjustment ...

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Pm me. I can email it to you. Do you have a blue tool?

I agree. Its particularly sad when it's a small 2 or 3 story building that would've been served well by a simple hydro for many many years but they go...

I don't know specifically about Otis boards but it seems like all boards are getting harder to find. Hall call boards for 330a's used to be easy to ge...

There are some more advanced ropes nowadays to help with specific problems. Like compacted strand ropes and parallel core ropes