Elevator Forum

Moline was the forerunner of Montgomery Elevator co, now Kone Elevator. Headquarters are still in Moline ILL. It looks to be an old broken rope type s...

Make sure the tach or the Governor encoder aren't slipping. Also check the Governor Tail Sheave weight hasn't bottomed out.

if the the drive is V16L, it barely picks a full load, and can't pick itself off the safeties after a load test, until you remove the weights. Slippin...

put the elevator on inspection. push the safe button only, you should hear the e-brake pick. if you don't pick the e-brake, swap the main and e-brake ...

All this to re-engineer a 40 year old system is ridiculous. I know it is possible, an old Westinghouse hand could do it. But you are messing with grou...

If the Lingo isn't right or the question isn't phrased correctly we shouldn't give advice. I don't mean just badly written because English isn't the f...

how did we get from a Tac 50 question, to one from someone who isn't an elevator mechanic?

Does it act the same for car calls as it does for hall calls? If you break the electronic edge does the dwell time change. There are a fairly large nu...

I agree with e-man. A little hard to read. A comma here and there would help.

when you are on independent and hold the close button, does DO10 go low? If so the problem is probably in the door board or micro switches. Is the ope...

This is a drive not ok fault. I would highly recommend a new drive. Repairing this is a waste of time, money and effort. The proverbial Lemon of Eleva...

It definitely is coming from that series of muffler. They came out with a write-up on it years ago. The internal rubber in the muffler is breaking up....

as I recall the contactor closed and the load balance sequence begins to increase the torque and removes the load from the brake. the cell was adjuste...

I have seen Drive Sheaves with a groove empty many times. The load on the Sheave shaft, the speed of the unit, among other things dictate the type, si...

having problems of this sort requires you to have some replacement boards on hand. you really can't trouble shoot this sort of problem. It can be caus...