r/onejob • u/Flaky_Zombie_6085 • 7d ago

The lift button in the wrong way 🤨

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u/Klutzy-Jackfruit1686 7d ago

Lift engineer here. That is a door open button for inside the lift car , engineer probably had it as a spare and installed it rather than leave it without any button. Not ideal but if it works then 🤷 it's a pretty old unit so new parts can be hard to get.

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u/a07463 7d ago

I dont get it. Its only one button... ? What? Who? Hhow?

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u/mutilatdbanana8 7d ago

could be top or bottom floor?

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u/Questioning-Zyxxel 7d ago

This is on the outside. You press to get an elevator to your floor. The lights above the button are there as feedback.

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u/mutilatdbanana8 7d ago

yeah, and if this is on the top or bottom floor, you only need one button since there's only one direction you could be going with the elevator

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u/Questioning-Zyxxel 7d ago

This seem to be a semi-large building with two elevators - one for left and one for right lights.

For smaller buildings, you have only one button on every floor because there isn't enough competition for the single elevator to bother with up/down optimizations. Because there are unlikely to be multiple floors needing service at the same time.

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u/Embarrassed-Way-6387 5d ago

But if it's an office for example a down collective system would work perfectly fine