Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Elevator Controls (was: Re: Lasers)
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.154115.18645@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <26@<1064> <21000101@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <4163@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 90 15:41:15 GMT

In article <4163@husc6.harvard.edu> cleary@husc9.UUCP (Kenneth Cleary) writes:
>>>... We hope to do this by placing radio-controlled
>>>switches in parallel with the inspection key switches, and certain floor
>
>You should first of all discuss this plan with whatever agency regulates
>elevators in your area.  Don't be surprised if they [politely] laugh, and
>tell you to take a hike...

A good point.  Long odds that you are not even allowed to *look* at the
elevator circuitry without a licensed elevator repairman supervising.
("Not allowed" as in "seriously illegal; jail and a criminal record if
they catch you".)  Our local networking people, searching for a good place
to put a gateway box in one particular building, discovered an elevator
machinery room that looked ideal... until they discovered that they could
be arrested for even entering the room without a licensed repairman there.
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