Elevator Forum

If they never light and don’t call the car either, look for a time clock or cut-out switch.

Go directly to a licensed elevator mechanic. It’s not something to mess with and you could easily make it a lot worse with a blue tool if you don’t kn...

There’s another screen under the up metering block that should be cleaned. When both are clean, reset low pressure with cold oil and see if it still d...

No literal MRLs. We do have machines in the hoistway but still has to be at least a closet for the controller and drive. No drives in the hoistway, co...

Oh I do. California is not so bad.

I don’t know I’ve never seen one

Dovetail is the distance from the bottom of the cylinder to the jack casing on a fully compressed buffer. It should only be about 1/16” on these so th...

That’s normal… There is no circuit to make the UPS turn on when you turn on the disconnect. When you turn off a TK hydro with a UPS you have to manual...

I didn’t adjust these but I have had to do this. I don’t remember having any problems though. It was a while ago but I definitely changed either the p...

Not exactly, KY9 boards have no LON controllers, only work for simplex Tac22. KY8 has 2 LON controllers, cat and hall, so work for simplex TAc20. All ...

I don’t think resync time ever went above 30 seconds. Too long can be a problem though, when the pistons fall away from the style caps you can suck ai...

Do you have a PCD tool? Need to see if it’s logging a fault that’s causing the calls to drop. If you don’t a good guess would be a fault related to th...

Check your CAN voltage. Should read about 2.4vdc from CAN low to G24 and slightly higher on CAN high. If voltage is funky, unplug the riser and read t...

I like to replace the TDC boards with these from ECI America. They also make LCD replacements for the other boards mentioned here. Especially good for...

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