Doppelmayr CTEC Uni-GS return station.Loading area and CTEC-style operator house.Riding up the line.Tower 5.Wide chair spacing.Arriving at the drive.Unload ramp and motor room.Side view of the Uni-GS station.Tower 9.T3.Return terminal.Another view of the top station.Doppelmayr Worldbook entry.
Spacing has no impact on speed. It has a design speed of 1000 feet per minute like most detachables. It could be that they are running it at full speed when many other resorts are running their lifts at 800-900 fpm. It’s easier to run a lift with bigger spacing at full speed because there are fewer misloads with the longer interval, but it does not mean the lift is any more or less capable.
When I visited Homewood in January 2020 it was running at 1000fpm with a chair interval just under 10 seconds. That puts the chair spacing at around 165 feet and the capacity at around 1,450 pph. I honestly don’t think there is a need to increase capacity because even on the busiest days of the season you would rarely wait more than 3 minutes in the lift line. Was Old Homewood still running at 1000fpm with the closer chair spacing?
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Because of its wide chair spacing, this lift runs much faster than a lot of express lifts.
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It is over 4,000 feet long, but only has around 60 chairs
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Spacing has no impact on speed. It has a design speed of 1000 feet per minute like most detachables. It could be that they are running it at full speed when many other resorts are running their lifts at 800-900 fpm. It’s easier to run a lift with bigger spacing at full speed because there are fewer misloads with the longer interval, but it does not mean the lift is any more or less capable.
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honestly, the chair spacing seems closer now, I went there today and the chairs seem much closer together
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When I visited Homewood in January 2020 it was running at 1000fpm with a chair interval just under 10 seconds. That puts the chair spacing at around 165 feet and the capacity at around 1,450 pph. I honestly don’t think there is a need to increase capacity because even on the busiest days of the season you would rarely wait more than 3 minutes in the lift line. Was Old Homewood still running at 1000fpm with the closer chair spacing?
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I found a photo of the old SLI quad chair:
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Where?
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Never heard of an SLI quad before, are there any more
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Nope, it was the only one, made right before they went bankrupt
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Last time I checked this isn’t the Quail Chair… Yet another mistake in a Doppelmayr Worldbook entry.
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