Home Forums General Discussion Technical Questions Kone ecospace floor stop tuning

Uh, well, at least I am able to trace signals through the controller, so that's not too bad.

Kone wants WAY too much money for the boards. An ADON board costs thousands, door operator board looks like it's worth $250, they want $2,900 for it, a motor tach is in the thousands, etc, etc. Spare parts cost way too much.

I don't appreciate the fact that the event log has no date and time stamp. You can't tell easily where one fault starts, and the other one ends, or when it was running on auto between faults, or for how long, what floor a fault occured on, etc. It does show the state of all basic signals, when the fault occured.

The 77S, 77N, 77U rail magnets are just stuck on the rail, without a bracket, w/o some recess to fit into, not even a spray paint shadowing. Seems like an afterthought, poorly executed.


The control program seems too uptight, too highly strung. It shuts down if a leaf falls on the roof, spits out codes left and right. Kinda flakey.

Removing the HCB board in the drive is a root canal. I've never worked on any controller that had a board so difficult to work on.

Compare the above to an MCE 4000 traction control, well, you can't, cuz there's no comparison. According to an engineer from MCE, a local Kone office asked MCE to design a mod controller, to replace the KCM831 and V3F25. They were gonna do so, but word was Kone hdqrtrs in Finland put a stop to it. I can see why, it would have been a black-eye for Kone if one of their own offices contracted with MCE to replace their own stuff. But this stuff is a black eye on them anyway...so it's a moot point. Maybe they were afraid contingency attys would smell blood in the water.

Short answer? Get a Motion controller.