That 36 hour old door reversal job that should've been 4 hours
Last Tuesday I got called to an old Otis in a downtown Cleveland building, like a 1980s unit, and the doors just would not sync right no matter what I did. The customer said it was acting up for weeks but they waited until it fully jammed on a Tuesday morning during move-in traffic. I spent the whole first day chasing down a bad door switch that tested fine on the meter but freaked out under load, turns out the contacts were just barely kissing when the car was level but not when it settled. Ended up camping on that job for 36 hours total, sleeping in my truck for a few hours between trips, and the fix was a $12 limit switch and a 20 minute adjustment after I finally figured out the car was sitting 3/8 inch low on the rails. Has anyone else spent way too long on a simple sounding problem just because the actual condition is hiding behind a flaky component?