On Wednesday, 6 March 2019 16:17:58 UTC, Roger Hayter wrote:
whisky-dave wrote:

On Wednesday, 6 March 2019 14:16:39 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Tuesday, 5 March 2019 17:06:20 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
whisky-dave wrote
Andy Burns wrote
whisky-dave wrote

lifts where you have to tell it what floor before you
get in it and then wait for the lift that goes to that floor

so rather than just up/down buttons,

I've never seen a life with just up and down buttons.

Then you need to get out more. Most do BEFORE YOU GET IN IT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:E...trol_panel.jpg.

Dumb**** we were refering to inside the lift NOT outside.

Even a terminal drunken ****wit should be able
to read and comprehend the current first para
with the words BEFORE YOU GET IN.

But that doesn't make any differnce to whether the lift goes up or down.

Perhaps you don't have them in Aus or they work differntly.

Today the lift was on teh 4th floor. I was on the ground floor. we have a
basement and floors 1, 2, 3, 4,

SO I called the lift using the down button, according tlo you this means I
want to go to the basement, I didn't I wanted the 2nd floor.

The lift came to the ground floor I got in and the door closed. Nothig
else happened the lift stayed on the ground floor, after a few miniutes I
pressed the button for the 2nd floor and the lift went up.

Now according to ****wits, when pressing the down button outside the lift
the lift should go down well it didn't.


That's really fascinating. Such a simple conrtro system and you've
totally failed to understand it. If you want to go up, you press the
up button. You get a lift just as quickly, but one on the way to the
basement because of the another user's request will not waste their time
and yours by stopping on the way down. It will still stop on the way
up, if another lift has not yet reached you. But everyone will be saved
the time of the futile stop on the way down. In your case, the lift at
the top which is empty and has no demand for the basement will still
come just as quickly if you press the up button, but will know it has to
go up. So you lose nothing by pressing the right button, but the
overall system is improved.

Or possibly you're joking?
But I've know this lift for 30 years it's never worked proplely I was told that. It also until 2 months ago never stopped on any floor evenly there was a gap of about 4 inches if yuo were going up, but only 1/2 inch when going down.
It's been like that for years.
If yuo wanted to use a trolly you had to go up first in order to go down if you wanted an almost level surface.
Once while carrying 4 computers on a trolly, the wheel broke off and fell down the lift shaft.

When students are using it you won't know how many times or which buttons have been pressed and there's no way to work it out anyway as the internal lift buttons override the direction and floor number.

Ther theory might be great but what actually happens is another thing.

The lift should also default to staying on the ground floor but it doesn't do that either, it just stops on the last floor that it was used on.

But luckily I've only been stuck in it once.









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Roger Hayter