Northern & Western New Jersey Lift Filming Journal

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For this lift galore, we have broken it into 4 parts: Carpark & hydraulic (part 1), North tower (part 2), South tower (part 3) & Homestyle & Funny (part 4). Each of the 4 parts features the Hard Rock Hotel in Atlantic City. Carpark & Hydraulic For the carpark & hydraulic portion of the readcast, we will focus on the following lifts as well as noting differences between their design, build & run: Hydraulic lift , which is a standalone fully original OTIS Series 1 from 1991 which serves only the casino level & boardwalk upper bar deck level “CF” Old parking , which is a set of 4 modernised Schindler Haughton (now OTIS Series 2 from the 1990’s with sticky buttons & square brailles) which serve floors G & 1-11 New parking , which is a set of 6 modernised OTIS Series LX lifts (now OTIS Series 2 from the 1990’s with regular buttons & oval brailles) which serve floors G & 1-11 Hydraulic Lift This lift is a 1991 OTIS 211-LVM with colorful Series 1 ...

The DOVIS lift  Epic & awesome lift, which overshoots the floor on the top floor due to a bad positioning system. It needs readjustment. It has a rough ride quality due to the uneven acceleration & constant bouncing & vibrating going up & down & it plops into place when finished accelerating downward. This lift has extreme intelligent leveling & has a very weird flat Series 1 floor indicator. Only the internal buttons have been replaced since. This lift rates 4.4 stars on the GC Lift Character Report.  The Schindler lifts  Great lifts, which have tastefully modernised previous OTIS Elevonic 401 lifts from the 80s. These lifts are very fast as they travel 350' per minute & have noticeably jolty & quick startups & level very fast, as expected for a Schindler. One of the lifts had a misaligned door mechanism making it very uncomfortable to ride but it just added to the character. Another had a broken alarm & the third bounced while acc...

Macy's This Macy's location has a basic standard Schindler HXPress which in 2018 completely replaced a 2011 generic lift which replaced a 1965 OTIS with "Series LX". This lift scores 3.6 stars on the General Chicago Lift Character Report & has a wooden car. It has slightly jolty acceleration & leveling, but going down it's as smooth as a traction lift with barely noticeable stops. Nordstrom These lifts are beautiful Schindler American M-Series cars which replaced plain cars back in 2009. Originally installed in 1997 as high speed gearless traction units, typical for a Nordstrom, these boast the same configuration as the King of Prussia Mall in Upper Merion Township, PA & the Somerset Collection in MI & boast a high top speed of 310' per minute. These have very smooth but forceful acceleration & get up to speed in only 2 & a half seconds. These have very fast deceleration & leveling as well. The trip only takes under 10 seconds to ge...

It's no secret that the happiest lift filmers are the ones who craft their expectations & preparation in such a way that they respond exactly the same way to the best & worst case scenario as they respond to the middle case scenario. But how exactly does one manage to do that? By setting opposite expectations to how they prepared for the trip to go. Oh yes, my dear fellow beginner lift filmer. That's right! If you expect the worst to happen but you prepare a plan in case the best case scenario happens, then you have a recipe for neutral emotions at the end of your lift filming agenda regardless how said trip went. You won't necessarily feel happy , but you also won't feel sad, angry, frustrated, etc . You will feel perfectly neutral.   But what exactly is a best case scenario? A best case scenario is a situation where everything goes right.  This means little to no security, all lifts are easily accessible & in working condition & none of the floors on a...

1. Concourse at Beaver Brook  These lifts are very nice OTIS Series 1 glass hydros from the 80s with digital floor indicators on 211 LVM microprocessor controllers. These are goats. They break down often but they do have their quirks to them, e.g. intelligent leveling, jolty startups & speedy accelerated positioning systems. They are very fast for their rise & what they are as they travel around 135' per minute despite only going a few floors. 3.7 stars on the GC Lift Character Report.  2. Independence Building  Dover Impulse lift from the 80s with sticky buttons. This lift has a mirror front & travels a speed of 135' per minute just like the other one. 4.1 stars on the GC Lift Character Report due to its semi loud motor, jolty leveling & very quick startup & smooth stopping. This is the first non OTIS or GAL lift I found in Clinton Township.  3. Corbit Building  OTIS Series 1 from the 80s, but this time on a relay logic controller with analo...

August 4 Stamford, Connecticut from 10 PM - 11:45 PM August 6 Clinton Township from 9 AM - 11 AM followed by Short Hills from 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM August 7 Random lift galore in Northeastern NJ from 7:30 AM to 7:30 PM (50% likely) August 8 Hard Rock Atlantic City: 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM August 9 Atlantic City: 1:00 AM - 6:00 AM & 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM. More filming throughout the day if possible. August 10 Hard Rock Atlantic City: 5:00 AM - 7:00 AM August 12 King of Prussia: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM. Fully dependent on quality of Atlantic City footage September 1 Kean University: 7:30 AM - 7:45 AM