23rd Anniversary of Elevator Photography. Let's go (try to) ride an elevator 

If they did require Hilton to install more elevators in the garage they would have to be MRL traction and judging by their contract it could be an Otis Gen2 Series 7 or a ThyssenKrupp Synergy. I really hope it's a ThyssenKrupp Synergy as modern day Otis Gen2's ESPECIALLY with blue fixtures are boring to say the least. How are they boring? I've ridden an Otis Series 7 in the Poughkeepsie grand and I felt barely anything. all I had to do was tap the button for it to light up and it was the green series 7. It was boring enough without the Gen2.

If these get modernized by ThyssenKrupp then AWESOME but if they get modernized by Kone then oh well but otis I hope it's series 4

Glad you enjoyed it

LOL

2023 and the parking garage elevators are still the way they are.

Reloaded and it played. Didn't know there was another elevator in this garage. Will have to check it out sometime

It's not broken. It's probably getting maintained. Plus that elevator has gotten stuck loads before he filmed it.

Hold your desired floor and the door close button for the entire trip UNTIL the elevator begins to decelerate at your floor. This way it will skip all other calls. It may seem selfish but trust me, it works because I've seen people do it in RU-vid videos with Otis Elevonic 401's.

Tried that. The elevator still opened on other floors. Sometimes several times. If holding the two buttons helps, it might have skipped new calls made after the elevator reached my floor, but not the ones made before it reached my floor. I suspect the two elevators, if they are programmed, skip calls automatically going the wrong direction (unless someone hits both up and down buttons at the same time or something). One goes up while the other goes down. If no calls are made going up, then they both go down towards the ground level. If they are both going down at the same time, then those above have to wait for one to hit ground first and change directions. This gives plenty of waiting time for people to gather around the elevator shaft. So as the elevator is going up to the top to reach my floor, I suspect those people were already calling it either before I came or at the same time. The elevator appears to take those calls as it goes to its end destination. I got some insight to this from the OTIS freight elevators at my workplace. if someone on another floor calls the elevator before you did, even if you are inside the elevator, it will automatically light up the floor called and go there first. It goes first call, first serve. Can be annoying if you just get on, and the 3rd floor lights up when you're ready to go to the 1st floor (from the sub level), but that is how it goes. you hit your floor asap, unless you're on one of them that requires the door to close first (have to hold the button down all the way or it opens), then you want that door to close asap and push the button. Workers who carry freight are very aware of this feature and use it to their advantage.

Also the elevator in question is not an Otis. It looks like it uses Dover's hardware and layout, but w/o the logo and in its place a very small local company's logo (hardly any web info on them).

+Alex Strauser yes u are right. I should not have done that

when did you stop the door with your hand

is there a link to that video

+NewageconnoralarmXtra I was demonstrating the bumper

+DieselDucy ah okay.

It may not necessarily be broken they could have it on independent service or shut off due to the construction.

AdamP511 Gaming I used to think it was a bad mod but after seeing the outrageously despicable monitor TR mods across NYC, I will prefer the Atlanta Marriott Marquis mod anyday. BTW I have regained my love for Otis after riding a buncha there lifts

If I come to Roanoke I'm interested in filming the elevators in the church Avenue Garage I've been hearing they are the fastest car park elevators in Roanoke but more importently I want to film the ThyssenKrupp MRL elevators in the building with the walking areas on top

Agreed

Like Chewbacca and Jr at Roosevelt Field mall. :(Now demolished)

Were they fun? Boring? I need to know. I'm going to the Marriott Marquis in AUGUST and I'm scared to find out how they ride. If they boring then WTF did I check into this hotel for. I might as well ride the service elevators the whole time as they probably are still Series 1 from the 80s.

They were pretty fast, and the series 7 fixtures look good in them. They still seem to ride the same as when I went several years ago. I will try to upload a video in the next week of them.

MathGuy Michael to me they look abs horrible, Thyssenkrupp would've been so much better.

I haven't uploaded the videos yet, but here they are (raw footage): drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzVsS5g5w0dtcmwxVWItZjc0MW8

MathGuy Michael Crappy Series 7. ThyssenKrupp would've been far nicer.

It just wasn't working at the time.

That elevator has gotten stuck BOATLOADS when dieselducy hasn't filmed it.

yep

Ya, I hope so too!! Can't wait to see what elevator it is

+ELEVATORS AND NORTH AMERICA My prediction and hope for: Otis Gen2 Series 4 or 7 or Schindler 5500.

+Floridian Elevators In my opinion I wouldn't want a 5500, it looks even cheaper than a 3300 , I would hope for a series 7 Gen2!

ELEVATORS AND NORTH AMERICA IMO 5500 looks great, but Otis Gen2 is even better!!!!

It's supposed to open anytime now, beginning of June

nope :) they are staying.

+Andrew Reams (dieselducy) Cool

I bet they are being modernized by ThyssenKrupp

because it started elevator photographry

Specialty Elev8ors and UEE's by Technicalboy3000 I thought that was the Marriott marquis.

battytec videos Nope it was the hILTON

You were almost correct with the bypass you pressed the two correct buttons but you have to KEEP THEM PRESSED until you reach your floor then release. Pressing both until the door closes and the elevator starts to move is what you do if an elevator is on independent service.

Press and hold your floor and the door close button

Is there a specific order? I tried both simultaneously and held on them until the door closed, but that didn't work. Okay I'm going to try holding onto them the whole time and see what happens.

BugFolk keep me posted there are some elevators it doesn't work on but it should work on ateast 90% of them.

worked 2/3 attempts, but I think I just got lucky since it is "non peak" hours at the high rise. I really need to try it on the days they have the food drive at the community level. The time it did not work, I was still holding down on both buttons and yet it still opened to let someone in. The elevator type I think is lagerquist?

construction

You're very smart. He lives in Virginia.

The dilithium crystals were shot

elev8tr15 WHAT ARE THOSE

John Smith we are lift enthusiasts. We film the lifts at different buildings as a hobby.

Where is the dead pixel?

Dont see any.

2:51 a little up from the middle of the screen there's a blue dot

aidan lee I saw that but that's just sun glare, right?