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Any chance there are a couple of 12v batteries used for CPU back up that are at or beyond shelf life expectancies?

Yeah goofy stuff at times. Does the building use card readers or some other security feature? I only ask because they do interface with the group PB r...

No Emergency Power option on this group? Is so, disconnect the input signal or fuse that controls that input.Is this a new problem on the existing gro...

The entire group craps out? Maybe something with EPO in the common panel:group controller? Tug every wire in the group controller and apply slight pre...

Yeah I’m suspect myself, but he does say in his bio he’d like to work for (I think he said-) KONE one day. So all light flaming aside he’s got an inte...

Instagram and you tube huh? Sure enough. Well, got me on that one. I hope your interests and passions with “elevators” will lead you to actually join ...

Is there a data tag fastened on any control cabinet? It would list date of mfg, job #, control model and manufacturer. State I.D. #’s are also posted ...

If it’s a new to you job on your route, have your salesman push it onto the building owners. After all, it’s their equipment. Sounds tough, but 1964? ...

I think I disliked every model or mfg’er of MRL. Guess I’m just a traditionalist. Laptops, diagnostic codes…yeah that’s ok, but…Machine on beams and o...

Not too much experience with the Northern 3200. “Normic” I think it was called? We had next to zero training with the MAP tool and heaven forbid you g...

I haven’t any experience with Miami Elevator, but I was around when U.S. Elevator was bizzzzy in the early to mid 80’s. I was the first in the L.A. of...

12” rise (one full step). All areas underneath the lift are dry? Any Inaccessible area where the oil may have migrated out of view like a side wall ne...

So literally no hydro oil in the units reservoir, or are you or the inspector seeing a green or red LED indicating “low oil” fault? The unit won’t run...

Originally Posted by Montana Rope tension? This was my first thought.

You know more than me on this topic.The straight up Northern units I had must’ve been the Normic model (20+ years ago!) but did not have pre opening. ...