Elevator Forum

That is a factory-installed jumper. The TS1 to TS2 is an optional emergency top slowdown switch on the rail. I always thought it was included because ...

You could prob go old school. Mount a wand micro switch so that every time the door opens it trips the micro and rings a gong.

If you want to mess with it try turning up the OF pot. Also, you can remove the J3 jumper and see if there is better operation. These operators have a...

As I understood it, high performance was used when there were heavy hoistway doors. If your operator is a high-performance operator, the belt and shea...

This was on a Mod re-using Westinghouse Machines. So the controller was prob a Resolve.

Does the unit have front and rear openings? Had this same issue in a building every time there was a power loss we had to re-install all the parameter...

This is just a thought. Have you checked the washers on the Brakes? You need to be able to move them by hand. Also the dead zone between the cigar swi...

Could also be a bad card rack or, a bad I/O interface among other things. The thing with this type of problem is you almost always need spare boards t...

Prob a bad power board.

It sounds as if you are over-compounded. Have you looked at the series field shunts? On an Otis controller, the series field is shunted with that coil...

So the motion regions are shown in the error log screen. The 1st digit is the mode, normal is 1, inspection is 2, relevel is 3, search is 4. The 2nd d...

It may be calling for the motor to heat the oil.

Are you getting any drive errors? Has the brake set? It sounds like the unit doesn't know the correct position. When the fault happens what motion reg...

Sounds like PT input is high. That is the low oil input.

If the elevator motor is DCV and it has its own generator for power, the generator has a timer that shuts it down after a period of non-use. Often tim...