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We are in Illinois.

I appreciate the sentiment, but the reality is that putting the alarm button on battery backup means a $3,000 cost.

In an 80 year old traction elevator servicing a 5 story residential building, which already has a fancy emergency phone that isn't dependent on building power, and elevator walls that make it very easy to hear anyone calling out from within elevator, you can imagine why we don't feel that putting the alarm bell on battery power makes much sense if its not required.

i suppose one could think up scenarios where someone who is mute gets stuck and the power fails, and the phone fails, and who is to weak to pound on the doors, could benefit from having the alarm bell on battery backup.. but then if it's not a code requirement you'd still have to ask yourself if maybe the $3,000 might be better spent on some different optional safety device..

another way to look at it is simply that, we'd like to know whether (since we have the phone) the alarm bell being on battery power required by code or not-- if not then we can at least CONSIDER our options. if it is, there is no point in us doing continued research about our options.