DAILY DIARY: CHECKING OUT A FAULTY LIFT || ELEVATOR ENGINEERING INSIDER
Hello hivers! How are you doing and I hope you had a great day. I use this opportunity to welcome you to another episode of my daily diary series where I tell you about my life activities.
I work as an elevator engineer since the past 2 years from now so you can still call me a baby in the field though I have gathered a lot of experience since the last two years I have been in the field.
Wednesday morning was a very fine morning. It didn't rain like the how it has been doing on Tuesday and Monday but it later began getting towards noon.
Wednesday which was yesterday, we (my colleague and I) went to an old site which we hadn't visited for almost a year. At first, I thought we were going to work on their elevator but instead were going to check out the elevator.
My boss was invited to have a talk with the person in charge of the elevator of the building to know some certain things going on with the elevator.
I had to take picture of the call button, so I can remember the name of the elevator. From what I can see here the name is Tromp and from how the elevator looks, it would probably be made by one of these European companies if I am not wrong.
According to what I heard from the person in charge of this elevator, it was said that it has a problem with the door module and operation or so, and the drawing for the control board of the elevator is missing.
That is where the real problem comes from. It would be very difficult for an engineer to service an elevator without having a drawing that shows how the elevator is wired.
This is similar to "A blind man trying to drive a passenger to a destination". Thereafter, I was instructed to take pictures of the top of car and everything in it which probably include the door motors, inspection box, and so on.
Below are the pictures taken
The black round metal substance above is called the door motor which rotates the door open or close. While in the image below, the blue box is called the door module with is used to control the door motor.
The image below is a board in the inspection box of the lift just above the car of the elevator.
I went ahead to the control room of the elevator which is located at the roof of the building to see the elevator motor and also it's control panel. So I would share images that I took in the control room.
One of the first things you notice in most controller rooms is the synchronous motors because of how large they are though, not all buildings with an elevator have controller rooms. Some just have a very small elevator kept in the shaft of the elevator while the control panel will be placed at the top floor of the building just beside the elevator.
The company name of the manufacturers of the motor above is DIKAAT. I can probably guess it is a German Company from the writing I can see in the picture above.
Here is the control panel of the elevator in question. As I said earlier that the drawing of this control panel is not available, so it would be unwise of us to work on it without getting one.
The purpose of taking the pictures of the control panel is to share with other elevator engineers in contact if they would know this elevator and have a drawing at hand.
I still have a lot to share with you guys but let me end it here. I would share them tomorrow and what ever I discover today. Still later ๐๏ธ
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