dont know why but it fascinates me with lift doors with gaps just seeing it moving through the floor and the light from the outside going past

Haha, thanks for sneaking into there and shooting this cool video for us! I love BtS!

Have you ever been caught in the machinery room by the management of the building?

@danielrichardbond Hi, that thing attached to the big wheel is called an ENCODER. It reports how many turns the motor has done so that the controller can calculate where the lift is in the shaft. This is how the controller knows where to slow down and stop the lift. The encoder here is quite old, and they are usually fitted at the end of the motor, not on a belt. The batteries are more than likely to be for the lift alarm during a power cut. Hope that answers your questions :)

@ranger26a Hehe..cool! Thanks for your comment! It's always worth checking motor room doors - sometimes you get lucky like I did.

I wonder if that door motor is still growling away to this day.....

Mr Chay is just as interested in your hobby as my boys are in my work.

I can’t help but get excited when you get excited

Uh, that elevator (and even hotel) is scarier than the machinery room itself :D

The Italian Job. Good Video Matt.

The motor room seemed and also sounded like a server room.

Those cables don't look safe!

“È vietato l’accesso al personale non autorizzato” “I’m sorry about that😅” No problems, you make very good footage for us☺️

" I'm an engineer " Famous last words!

10:35 Nice sound

Scary elevators are out of the ordinary especially when they are old

3:40 What that lift doesn't do is take forever to close its doors!

Sorting through my liked videos and came across this video again. Wow, 2011. Undoubtedly these lifts have been modernised, the hotel possibly not even in business anymore...

It's amazing they left that room unlocked!

Love the old school encoder fitted to the motor :)

I love these videos! Keep them coming!

That looks fairly modern to me compared to some machine rooms I’ve seen. Are there any lifts still running with mercury arc rectifiers? Belsize Park deep level shelter still had them not that long ago, early 2000s maybe.

@produKtNZ Do you think this was originally fitted? Or do you think it has been fitted since installing. I'm not sure.

@produKtNZ I was watching for LEDs changing or relays operating as the lift (ascensore!!) was in motion, but I didn't see anything happening (only the floor display changing). If I did then I would have certainly moved the camera angle. I agree that it's interesting to watch the inputs and outputs to the controller changing state.

Wow, now that's a lift video! Don't think i would have gone in there alone but you got a great result. That control system looks a bit 80s or at most early 90s to me. Got any closeup photos of the board so you can see the date code on one of the components? I looked on Flickr but there's nothing on there yet. And by the way: love the intro :D Now all you have to do is to get Chay interested in lifts.

@mrmattandmrchay Hi again! Watched your photos on Flickr, thanks for uploading. I have added some comments as well. The bottom PIA chip on the circuit board on the left is from october 1988 so this lift is about 20 years old, 22 years max.

Theese are old italian FIAM lifts, they are now become very rare because of modernizations :( you actually was very lucky finding those ones in completely original conditions. I saw a lot of lifts like that but only 4 or 5 were original, by the way i am italian PS:the most scariest thing about the staff only lift is the door operator motor it sounds really creepy for me

This is a very modern lift mechanism. Some of the old ones are more interesting. I have seen some with thermionic valves in the control circuitry and cupboards full of switches and relays. Many of those ones had a cupboard full of spare parts as they were not simplified like this modern one. But still good to see.

"...It's open!" Nope, you had to open it.

what a sad neglected unit. I sure hope you are actually qualified elevator personnel....the cables are fine just dirt and fuzz on them, Likely another, building owner saving money on elevator maintenance. They take a big chance that there will not be a fatality because of lack of maintenance and yearly testing/inspection. 40 years in the trade here. QEI-1 certified..

I get to be in rooms like this and better ever day!

Looks very simplified compared to the elevator system in my old workplace. 6 story parking ramp with TWO elevators side by side. The control room had racks of relays and was built in 1968. It was in operation till around 2005ish when the whole structure was demolished. Those machines ran on ac to dc converters with were of the motor/generator type. I spent some time up there watching it work. Kinda creepy but you get used to it......

4:45 and 4:57 the door operator motor sounds very creepy, the motor of the lift itself has a powerful sound sort of to it wich sounds really cool

13:35 “access to unauthorized personnel is prohibited” I think

Sounds like that motor could benefit with some new bearings.

I assume the small motor connected to the flywheel and the lead acid batteries are some sort of back-up system in the event of power failure to take it to the next level? What do you think?

If you looked carefully on the boards it say KONE . iWork on these lifts but the mess is done by the repair guys or maintenance guys. It got also an emergency rescue device in case of a power cut . Cool 😎

@mrmattandmrchay Okay cool thanks for your reply. I've never seen that set-up before. Lead acid batteries seem a strange choice for that use, they're meant for high power short demand stuff. I've seen ni-cad battery banks before for alarms but not car batteries! I'm on my laptop at the mo, I usually use my iPad to use KZfaq so I think I'll take this opportunity to check out some of your favourites...

I do work on that kind of panel but it’s a duplex. It’s in that condition as the Maintanance guy should do a better job. But it’s nearly all original. The encoder is fitted as an optional as its not a gearless motor. But it works better with it. Nice work though.

@mrmattandmrchay Depends on how modern the building is. It looks to be the original motor and a partial controller upgrade

"It was open, so I opened the door..." Apparently it actually _wasn't_ open, then.

What state/country is that hotel in?? I would really like to know... :)

@drenahmeti22 Of course :) There is a GoAnimate! movie heading this direction though!

@TarzanAndConz :D Yes the FX box you sent gave the video a fun starting! And, yes, I took quite a few photos - I forgot about Flickr - but I will upload them tonight or tomorrow. Thanks! Matt

Elevators in my dreams are for some reason even worse They aren’t even fully enclosed and have a big gap between the car and the shaft walls

It's funny, I am fan of all of your videos but for some reason always come back to this one. Strange.

@produKtNZ Also, 12:58 That was the cover for the governor =\ Did you happen to see and status LED's on the controller boards for the shaft sensors? I find it's quite interesting watching them light up as the car passes landing markers :)

Hi Matt, what is the funny looking device on the floor at 07:48? Also do you think the locked motor room would have had the same style machinery? You could hear it working away as you tried the door that was locked, and it sounded the same as the machinery in the open room.

Only in Italy...

5:54 why do you like floor 3 so much - is it that hard to pick between 1 and 3???

Do the lifts still exist ?

I wish I had those pocket sounds, so I could bring it to school xD

Interesting rack of control equipment. But in this day and age, it's a wonder they didn't ban you and them some. Sneaking into the elevator equipment room (with a camera no less) they might've turned you over the police on suspicion of "planning a terrorist attack"

We have one in school that.... is very scary, someone in my class got stuck in there for like one hour.

What model of camera did you use? Very good image quality for an 8 year old video.

I thought there were only 12 floors let alone 16! And I think I know why chay thought it was 'stupid rubbish'. There was no relays! It was a circuit board!

5:16 what floor is that? Looks like the abandoned part of the hotel.

Which city you were? I saw you were in Italy 😀

Scary!!!

EPIC MOTOR!!!

Is there a sprocket at the pit that the chains go around?

If you push the 10th floor button twice, will it take you to the 20th floor? Just curious. 😋😁 Thanks for the video.

Fiam ? I know an extremely similar lift that the one you filmed, it is way smaller though. I always thought it was from the 70's but the lift was actually built in the 90's. They also built the lift in my apartment building in the 70's. Kone upgraded it slightly but the relay logic is original

@Elevatorkid96 hehe, it's called passion I think! :)

9:22 lets see... Floor set to -9, for testing purposes, of course.

appropriately creepy....

Chay's so funny!

I wonder what exactly is scary about this room....

Typical Italian job, they think wires are spaghetti and should be randomly thrown everywhere :/

What was that piece of yellow stuff stuck in the cable?

Oh you're in italy :-D .. the label "Manutenzione completa"(mente mancante) :-p

there was a hotel I stayed in it was in new Mexico I think but it was. a well I forgot how many floors but the elevators where Otis series 1 I went to the top of the stairs and the lift room was unlocked I didn't go in cuz of like you said there are a lot of risks doing it so I didn't enter the lift room but it was cool Lol

how do you get the sound effect remote

Where is it?

In luxembourgh hotel Hilton theres also 2 of those but there abandoned

What is elevator place

It seems that you don’t have experience in old elevators especially FIAM or KONE. I worked on hundreds of them and they are safer than others . People who didn’t had experience on these can’t say they are scary. I worked on the early days of FIAM lifts and are still going strong since 45 years. On all lifts even known brands if installations are rubbish you can get a bad experience. If it’s the cheapest and worse lift installed properly it lasts a lifetime. I have been working on lifts for over 35 years including fabrication at workshop from doors to car to chassis to motor beds to brackets and go on site and install from a to z including electrical after fabrication of control panel. The worse lifts and complicated are otis. They got the name but not the product . I have seen broken motor gearboxes and beds crushed after testing emergency brakes so even the known brands are somehow crap. For me the best are IGV who used to do everything except motor and guide rails.

Where is that hotel, i'm italian

Which hotel is that?

that noise that the doors make at 4:58 on that little lift that u said was scary is weird

looks like it's time for the lift and it's components to be tuned up a bit.

Yeah chay! listen to your dad! lifts are cool! naughty chay chay!

5:10 XD

400V Three-phase current is not a high voltage! 400V three-phase current still belongs to the low-voltage range. High voltage only starts above 1 kV.

Is the thing at8:50 a safety brake???

Idk why I find machine rooms scary.

Am I right, Did Express have their escalators made by Italian Fiam?

7:49 what’s that fan thingy?

@joeyollie123 [Chay's reply] OY!!

Scary lift lol

Ha ha ha ha!

This motor room has Minecraft cave sounds

Oh, It appreas some parts of the video are a tad bit corrupted... The glicthes are called corruptions that is.

Chay

Dude when he just go look the old lift motor room that no motor and brake in that he hear sound that he hear

I think it’s a death of a lift

Abandoned elevator

FIAM brandis one of the best Italian companies and now its called KONE

5:10 your welcome

You sound like Paul zerdin no offence you have a nice voice