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Quick Review of the Hard Rock Lifts

This past weekend, I went on a trip to Atlantic City, NJ, my favorite city in Jersey to go lift filming. In the process, I have discovered some early OTIS Elevonic 411s, some extraordinarily unreliable Westinghouse Selectomatic Mark 6 lifts & some OTIS Elevonic 401 lifts recently refurbished by Schindler!

My first experience with the otis elevonic 401

The Elevonic 401 was absolutely EPIC and amazing!!! This system that I rode on goes around 6 meters per second, which is fast for any OTIS Elevonic 401. But what made it super awesome was its ever-so-forceful acceleration which had me pinned to the floor on the way up & floating off the floor when decelerating or going down. This was by far my favorite lift in Atlantic City, probably even moreso than the epic OTIS/KONE lifts at Tropicana’s West Tower!!

Although my experience only lasted for a minute and a half because I was pressed for time and wanted to avert the “card guards” on the two lowest public floors, I just absolutely had to find a way to avert the card guards so I could get a quick experience of the OTIS Elevonic 401. Next to the lifts was a very tall escalator that went up to the third floor which was the pool and spa. I rode the escalator up to the third floor and checked the lift bank for any guards, there was none! I knew what I had to do. I pushed the UP button & a lift came straight away, packed with guests. I rode the lift up to floor 8 instead of going all the way up to floor 41 in case the lift stopped anywhere along the way to pick up a card guard. Although the lift never reached its full speed and we only went 5 floors, the acceleration was what made the lift so much fun. It took less than 10 seconds from the time the doors closed on floor 3 to the time the doors reopened on floor 8 in fact. The doors took more time opening & closing than the lift spent actually moving. That was a first!

After I got off the lift on floor 8, I pushed the DOWN button to go back down to floor 3. A lift came straight away, so I was luckily not waiting very long. Going down was even more fun becaue I thought I was freefalling due to how fast the lift was accelerating. Decelerating PINNED ME TO THE FLOOR because of how fast it was. By the time I returned to floor 3, I was so dizzy that I had trouble walking, but nevertheless I took the escalator back to floor 2 to avert the card guards. Unfortunately, I did not get to ride the OTIS Elevonic 411’s next door.

The carpark lifts

These lifts were very basic and they were OTIS Elevonic 411 with Series 2. The call buttons on floor 2 have both been replaced with new blue-illuminating OTIS call buttons, but the car fixtures were original. These were typical OTIS Series 2 lifts running on Elevonic 411 logic so there’s nothing much to say about them, although they were also very fast.

That will be it for this journal post, stay tuned for more popping up soon.



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