Hey Mike..Question for you concerning Elevators....
I was recently stuck in an Elevator..( and the person i was with wasn't even good looking..they were a male employee...!!!)what i think happened was this..I was going up..to the 19th floor and the on the way there was jerk and it felt like the elevator was falling..Now i dont it actually fell but i think it stopped suddenly causing the upward momentum to continue..this caused the cable to go slack then the car "fell" the inch or two to tighten the cable..(On the right track so far?) After this Jerk happened the car stopped and wouldn't move..(Insert popular elevator manufacture here!!) came in and reset then the car moved to the closest floor and was cool again..aside from the change of underwear!! (I hate heights and were suspended between 18th and 19th floor..thats about 260' to the bumpers down in the parking garage!!)
I called the building maintenance staff and they said.."dont go any where!"...Followed by lots of laughter..they then asked if there were any other passengers in the car..io told them who was with me and after more bouts of laughter i was told to "Hang on!!"..More laughter..(The building Manager i have worked with for many years so he can get away with this stuff with me..)..The elevator mechanic was in the building at the time doing maintenance in the other tower so i was only in there for about 15 Min's or so..
First question..what would of caused the sudden stop..
2nd question..why after it stopped would it not start again..
3rd question..a couple of times in the past this elevator would be going up then slow down and stop then start to desend..then slow down stop and start to assend..why?
4th..Why does the car pull up slightly when going down..(By this i mean if i get on the 10th floor i can feel the car travel upward momentarily then go down..Is this to release the breaks or just make it easier on the passengers guts??
Lots of questions i know but am just curious..Starting to get a hate on for these things...
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I was recently stuck in an Elevator..( and the person i was with wasn't even good looking..they were a male employee...!!!)what i think happened was this..I was going up..to the 19th floor and the on the way there was jerk and it felt like the elevator was falling..Now i dont it actually fell but i think it stopped suddenly causing the upward momentum to continue..this caused the cable to go slack then the car "fell" the inch or two to tighten the cable..(On the right track so far?) After this Jerk happened the car stopped and wouldn't move..(Insert popular elevator manufacture here!!) came in and reset then the car moved to the closest floor and was cool again..aside from the change of underwear!! (I hate heights and were suspended between 18th and 19th floor..thats about 260' to the bumpers down in the parking garage!!)
I called the building maintenance staff and they said.."dont go any where!"...Followed by lots of laughter..they then asked if there were any other passengers in the car..io told them who was with me and after more bouts of laughter i was told to "Hang on!!"..More laughter..(The building Manager i have worked with for many years so he can get away with this stuff with me..)..The elevator mechanic was in the building at the time doing maintenance in the other tower so i was only in there for about 15 Min's or so..
First question..what would of caused the sudden stop..
2nd question..why after it stopped would it not start again..
3rd question..a couple of times in the past this elevator would be going up then slow down and stop then start to desend..then slow down stop and start to assend..why?
4th..Why does the car pull up slightly when going down..(By this i mean if i get on the 10th floor i can feel the car travel upward momentarily then go down..Is this to release the breaks or just make it easier on the passengers guts??
Lots of questions i know but am just curious..Starting to get a hate on for these things...
D
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