I love what I see. It is so much better than the standard 1 person elevator.
However, I have some questionss. It seems that other than requiring more room to retro fit the new shaft in, I need a control room?
Is there a way to run this on defaults, without the need to micro manage?
Can the control room if truly necessary (as my tiny hotel only has one shaft), be placed n the basement, or does it need to be above the shaft along with whatever "motor" control room is necessary? Trying to save what little space my small 5 story inn has (6 with basement subway stop).
Can you provide a direct video link for that youtube video? I cannot open it in my browser due to some unrelated issues to content , luanti , org. I wish to use an external player to view the file.
Thanks for any time you take to answer this, and thanks for doing visually to the cars, what I have been wanting to do for the default elevator. mod.
Hopefully you will update the listing here so its searchable within the game interface, not just manually.
Hopefully these will answer your questions, in order:
You do need to place the controller and drive somewhere, yes, but there's no need to have them be in any particular spot relative to the elevator. On one server I frequently play on, one player commonly builds "machine room-less" installations where the hoist machine is at the top of the shaft and the controller and drive are located in a closet somewhere.
You do need to set up the floor table when setting up the controller, but the rest of the parameters can be left at defaults and it'll work. It'll just be a bit on the slow side (1m/s) and fire recall will possibly send it to the wrong floor if you use that feature.
Placing the controller and drive in a basement is fine. Only the hoist machine needs to be above the car.
I love what I see. It is so much better than the standard 1 person elevator.
However, I have some questionss. It seems that other than requiring more room to retro fit the new shaft in, I need a control room?
Is there a way to run this on defaults, without the need to micro manage?
Can the control room if truly necessary (as my tiny hotel only has one shaft), be placed n the basement, or does it need to be above the shaft along with whatever "motor" control room is necessary? Trying to save what little space my small 5 story inn has (6 with basement subway stop).
Can you provide a direct video link for that youtube video? I cannot open it in my browser due to some unrelated issues to content , luanti , org. I wish to use an external player to view the file.
Thanks for any time you take to answer this, and thanks for doing visually to the cars, what I have been wanting to do for the default elevator. mod.
Hopefully you will update the listing here so its searchable within the game interface, not just manually.
Good luck to you and this project.
Hopefully these will answer your questions, in order:
You do need to place the controller and drive somewhere, yes, but there's no need to have them be in any particular spot relative to the elevator. On one server I frequently play on, one player commonly builds "machine room-less" installations where the hoist machine is at the top of the shaft and the controller and drive are located in a closet somewhere.
You do need to set up the floor table when setting up the controller, but the rest of the parameters can be left at defaults and it'll work. It'll just be a bit on the slow side (1m/s) and fire recall will possibly send it to the wrong floor if you use that feature.
Placing the controller and drive in a basement is fine. Only the hoist machine needs to be above the car.
Direct video link (same video as the listing) is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKm2epe0AzU