Home Forums General Discussion Technical Questions 330 A 94 fault

I have a friend who is getting repeat 94 faults. GAL Locks and he was wondering if there is anything special he should look at.

94 is the result 99% of the time of an improper reset. Turning the Line off and back on to clear a fatal.
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What Company does your "friend" work for?

Dan
Check to make sure the relays drop properly for both the car and gate.

HighRise He works for Midwest Elevator in St.Louis (local 3). And will report XTRA info after next visit.

Cheap door contacts/replace

94 is a door lock contact fault check contacts you can also get this when the door lock bounces mostly caused by dirty contacts

Change contacts for good measure. Then, In the smlcd history, see if by chance there is a 75 happening right before the 94. If a 75 exists, check the door closer tension at the floor as well.

Did the rubber stops fall out of the jam letting the door go to deep into interlock? With eci locks its a problem not sure with gal though.

Update... This unit is in a hotel and after going over everything 2 or 3 times my friend had a new cover for the gate switch built that would keep someone from reaching up and making the gate contacts with the doors open causing the fault!!!! Not one call since. You cant fix stupid but sometimes you can out fox em.

Damn! I've had people reach between the strikes and flip the pit stop switches but I've never heard of someone reaching up and hitting the gate switch. I'll bet the the software would fire a mismatch. Sometimes i've seen gate switches hang on the cover (while cleaning them and putting the cover back on when the car door is open) or the pivot pin gets bent or dirty. The roller is supposed to hit that cam while opening and knock it down to ensure drop out (as I'm sure you know). It probably has one of those clutches that can't split the doors but if not, is it possible someone is separating the doors and the SDoor contact is making up while the OL is triggered? You never know what you'll find in these hotels.....

We had some miprom 21s in a university dorm and the taller kids thought it was fun to hit the gate switch all the time along with punching out the emergancy light lenses. The university finally got smart and put in cameras in all the cars which cured the problem after alot of mommys and daddys recived some rather exspensive elevator bills beacause of their stupid kids.