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#1448 - 05/19/11 11:50 PM
Re: New Controllers: Time For A Change
[Re: Vatorman15]
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Vic
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jack of all depts
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Motion Control Engineering (aka "MCE") manufactures non-proprietary controls, for AC Traction, DC Traction, hydraulic, etc. They have a great engineering team.
We've used Motion on nearly 500 units, traction and hydraulic, and had VERY FEW problems, overall. Most problems can be fixed in the field pretty quickly, or with their phone tech support. Their circuits are comparatively easy to trace, so a lot of techs like them. Boards are available o/n air from Rancho Cordova, CA. I like the flexibility they give us to configure spare input and output channels, and adjust operating parameters in the field. (Compare that to another manufacturer, where I had to get their engineering dept to write new software, with all the frustration and delay that incurs)
Last time I heard, they had something like 40% of the modernization market. For traction elevators, you could go with an MCE M4000, or the new iDrive. They can advise you best, as to what model meets your job specific needs. 916-463-9200.
(MCE, can I have my lollipop now?)
Last edited by Vic; 05/19/11 11:58 PM.
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#1451 - 05/20/11 10:34 PM
Re: New Controllers: Time For A Change
[Re: Mark]
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Vic
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#1481 - 05/27/11 01:39 PM
Re: New Controllers: Time For A Change
[Re: Matthew]
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Mark
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#1482 - 05/27/11 11:56 PM
Re: New Controllers: Time For A Change
[Re: Mark]
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GreenPants
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GreenPants
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I think you should go proprietary with Otis GCS controls, Compass destination dispatching and Panorama elevator management system. It is the best stuff on the market right now. You and your tenants would be very pleased, it would probably be cheaper and definably more reliable. Thats just my opinion as a Otis tech.
BTW the prices these guys are giving are just to buy the controller, the much more expensive part is the labor to put it all in adjust and inspect.
Last edited by GreenPants; 05/27/11 11:58 PM.
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#1486 - 05/28/11 02:17 PM
Re: New Controllers: Time For A Change
[Re: kiwinightstalker]
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Smitty
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I am not a fan of the pre-destination dispatchers because they really only work better in certain types of buildings. If you have for example a government building or higher security type of building, they could work well. The idea being that people arrive and go to a certain floor on a consistent basis. On the other hand if you have an office building with a pretty random type of traffic it doesn't work well. It's not that the system doesn't work but rather that people don't generally pay attention to what elevator they get on much less even the direction they want to go. In low rise applications the typical ETS based dispatcher works good enough. You can only get so fancy when it comes down to dispatching four elevators over the range of 10-16 floors.
Last edited by Smitty; 05/28/11 02:18 PM.
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