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Question about a weird elevator setup I saw in a Chicago hotel this weekend
I was staying at this older hotel near the Loop on Saturday and their service elevator had this really strange controller setup. The buttons were laid out in a circle instead of a straight line, and the emergency stop was on the bottom right instead of the usual top corner. They had a handwritten note taped to the panel saying "press slowly" in Sharpie. Has anyone else run into a setup like this where the wiring or controller placement just seems totally off from what we're used to? I'm wondering if it's some older code thing or just a bad retrofit.
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calebc404mo ago
Did they have the floor numbers painted on backwards too?
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felix4144mo ago
That "press slowly" note is a dead giveaway someone wired it backwards or used the wrong gauge wire. Had a similar mess in an old building in Philly, had to slap the buttons twice just to get the doors to close.
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