Transcription of Elevator Guidelines for Emergency Generators - VTX
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March 1998 Elevator World45 Passengers trapped in elevators need every opportunityto escape an Emergency situation. If designed to operate onstandby power, the Emergency generator must operate ele-vators safely and reliably. If the elevators do not operateproperly while on Emergency power, seri-ous consequences can most commonly ignored operation ofan Elevator is its ability to operate properlyon standby power. The American Society ofMechanical Engineers (ASME) andmost local codes require Elevator standbypower testing annually, with no-load andfull-load (125% of capacity) test every fiveyears. Furthermore, if more than one eleva-tor is capable of running simultaneously,they shall be tested shows that many buildingsignore this code requirement.
46 March 1998 Elevator World The most common problems operating on emergency power discovered to date have been: 1. Increase in THD, up to a …
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