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They were designed this way to make it easier for the FD to extract passengers, especially in places like CA that prohibit the key in the door, or in ...

Oh! I forgot to mention. The absolute worse door operator is the Schindler QKS16.

When praising Fermator over GAL. I was mostly referring to the fact that GAL, which they should stop doing this because all the others have long stopp...

Here's some info on the belts: trol%20System%20Basics%20REV%200.3.5.pdf

Be careful falling for mods, especially it pressured by the smaller independent companies cause that's how they make money as scammers. I'm not agains...

Magnetek has a drive for the older KONE Ecodisc. Imperial has a machine that looks like the newer KONEs called the 540 series. https://elevatorworld.c...

Oh, don't forget about MCE Motion series. It's really good too.

PS: The only company I've ever seen that has ever built a non-proprietary elevator that really works is TK-Northern. The only brand of elevator I've n...

For those people who have DMC controllers out there. Be aware of independent companies using the "obsolete marketing tactic" to upsell you into gettin...

Don't forget about Adams.

Thyssen themselves didn't actually buy US Elevator. It was their Canadian subsidiary Northern that actually bought them in 1994. The Northern design i...

If you're looking for a plug style contact like those found on Schindler 3300/5500, try suns-usa or fermator.

No. If it's an old Miami Elevator HD, I would actually recommend looking to Wittur, since Miami Elevator was bought out by Thyssen (now TKE), and the ...

Another thing you could do to retrofit an old system would be to buy the GAL MOVFE linear (just the motor, controller, sensors) and then install it si...

If it is produced by an Italian company, it's most likely produced by Prisma. If you google it and look at pictures of the motors, they look mighty si...