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Warning: Had a hoistway door interlock fail on a 90s Otis unit last Thursday
The car was on the 7th floor when the door just wouldn't lock, leaving the safety circuit open and the elevator out of service. I had to bypass it temporarily to get the car to the lobby for a proper fix, which felt sketchy but got people moving. Has anyone seen a specific uptick in these older Otis interlocks failing lately?
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the_kelly16d ago
Wait you bypassed it? That's wild, how'd you even manage that?
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victorb5116d ago
Yeah, the "how'd you even manage that" part reminds me of my buddy last week. He got locked out of some work thing, a two-factor setup. He spent like an hour trying his backup codes, which were all wrong. Then he remembered he had set up his personal phone as a backup device years ago, totally forgot about it. It was still logged in somehow, @the_kelly, so he got a push notification there and just approved it. Pure luck, really.
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