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That moment I forgot to check the governor tension on a 10 stop mod
We were finishing up a mod at a 6 story office building downtown last Thursday. Got the doors timed perfect, safeties checked, but I skipped the governor cable tension because I figured it was fine from the factory setup. Ropes started bouncing during the final test run and the car jammed between floors. Took us 3 hours to reset and re-tension everything with a tensionometer. Anyone else had a governor issue that looked fine on paper but totally failed in the field?
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calebc404mo ago
Hold up, I gotta push back on this one. A 10 stop mod with governor tension straight from the factory is usually dead on. Ive done over a dozen mods this year and never had a single bounce issue with factory tension. If you had rope bounce on a final test run, its way more likely the rails or the car slippers got misaligned during the install, not the governor. We just finished a 5 stop last month where the car drifted because someone tightened the guide shoes wrong. Did you check the rail brackets for level before blaming the governor?
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taraross4mo ago
Haha yeah man I've been there too! Last year on a 12 stop I had the exact same thought, governor looked perfect out of the box, but as soon as we loaded it up the ropes started dancing like crazy. Took us half a day to figure out it was the factory tension after all, not the rails or shoes.
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