Elevator/Lift Control Room (Over 30 years old!)

A look inside a live and working elevator/lift control panel which is over 30 years old, and is one of the few still using large relays/contactors to switch everything on and off, which makes it so awesome.

Also you can see the lift motor and the brake (watch the brake closely, it is difficult to see it move, since it moves only slightly!)

This is the only lift in a fully-occupied 5-floor office building, so it's active most of the time. Although the car has been 're-furbished' so it looks a lot newer than 30+ years old, the control room has not. (Yay :P)

(Sorry, the spark I made a big deal about on the video didn't survive YouTube's compression very well...)

I had no idea what video category to choose, so I just chose Entertainment, since it is pretty entertaining to some people (like me).

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• elevator
• lift
• control
• room
• panel
• contactor
• relay
• spark
• electric
• motor
• brake
• old

[produKtNZ]

Wow! I may have access to an even older one that this!, its has about 20 rows of smaller switches for the car positioning\ point tripping) about 80 or so in total to service 11 floors)

And then there's the big contactors for each motor direction, doors and brakes but its only the motor contactors that make a huge spark (about 7-15mm of spark!!).

As this stuff fascinates me too, there will be a vid from me up shortly :)

[SomethingUnreal]

That sounds awesome! =D

I look forward to your video! I only hope that it will be recorded at a decent quality, because an amazing number of these elevator videos appear to be done with poor-quality mobile phone cameras, which is a big shame. =/

[produKtNZ]

:) Will try my best, gonna be a couple of weeks tho. Since as you have said about the crappy camcorders. I have a crappy camcorder :S So i'll have to buy a new one.

I am the head concierge at the hotel, i have a single master key that opens 260+ doors :) including the lift motor room :D

[SomethingUnreal]

Good luck. =) I still look forward to it.

To be honest, any camcorder should be better than a phone's built-in 'after-thought' camera. ;)

[produKtNZ]

lol yea. but i do want something decent to record with... Any ideas?

[SomethingUnreal]

Well I use a camcorder (Sony DCR-TRV270E), although it's a pretty old design now (uses those bulky Digital-8 tapes), although it is still a decent machine - stereo, 720x576 video resolution (with 40x optical/990x digital zoom) and pretty good night-vision. I do recommend you check out pixmania dot com. They sell this kind of stuff brand new at decent prices. ;)

[AG3304]

Pop,bang,flash,click,clunk.The way electrics should be.And far more dependable than the electronic crap made now.

[Rbnqss]

gotta love the sounds of the relays

[pomonabill220]

HOLD THE DAMN CAMERA STILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[electrovlog]

Great components!

You can easily inspect and fix them, and you need not replace the entire contactor if a contact fails.

[danielrichardbond]

@andel74 Can you video it and put it up here?

[express777100]

definately an express controller, i remember the old contacts,

[mrcelica4589]

This control unit is powered by the Zilog Z80 microprocessor, same as the C-64 homecomputer.

[johnnv11]

OLD EXPRESS CONTOL PANEL WITH A NEW ELECTRONIC FLOOR SELECTOR,VERY DANGEROUS TO WORK ON AS IF YOU TOUCH ANYTHING INSIDE THE PANEL YOU WILL GET A SHOCK/ELECTOCUTED.

[andel74]

i inspect a lift with an arc rectifier (google it) still in use, its from the 1930's!!

[Vanishbug]

Amazing

[michelinman8592]

FABULOUS!!!!!