Dover 1000 foot per minute gearless traction elevator machines

This is a recently modernized Dover gearless traction elevator machine room. The machines are DC 60 horsepower open frame motors with a directly mounted rope sheave. It's double wrapped. In other words the cables (called ropes in the elevator trade) are connected to the car, go up and over the motor sheave, down and around the deflection sheave, back over the motor sheave, and then down to the counterweight. This gives the motor a lot more "grip" or traction to the hoisting ropes. The controller is part of a larger modernization project. It's a Thyssen Krupp TAC32T with Destination Dispatch.

Destination Dispatch is a completely new way of calling an elevator. Instead of the traditional method of pressing an up or down button in the lobby, you are greeted with a large screen. You simply select the floor you are going to, and it assigns you an elevator. Once that car opens it's doors, your floor is already selected for you. This system is a lot more effective in reducing the amount of redundant stops which in turn makes the system more efficient by reducing wait times. The upper floor continue to have traditional up/down hall buttons.