This Hall double services the middle part of the upper mountain.Fixed bullwheel up top.The top station and last tower.View down from the summit.Bottom terminal and lift line.Loading area and motor room.Portal tower 1.Counterweight tensioning.Lift line overview.
The reason is because the uphill capacity is an average. The equation used for a chair’s hourly capacity is the seconds in an hour times carrier capacity (in this case a double) divided by chair interval. So for this chair it would be (3600 x 2)/(chair interval) = capacity, meaning an interval of 6.3 seconds would result in a capacity of 1139 pph.
Since 6.3 seconds doesn’t go equally into 1 hour, the chair won’t transport the exact same amount of people each hour. If the chair brings up 1140 people one hour and 1138 the next, it averages out to a capacity of 1139.
How does this lift have an odd hourly capacity if it is a double?
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Could it be the number of chairs on the line?
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The reason is because the uphill capacity is an average. The equation used for a chair’s hourly capacity is the seconds in an hour times carrier capacity (in this case a double) divided by chair interval. So for this chair it would be (3600 x 2)/(chair interval) = capacity, meaning an interval of 6.3 seconds would result in a capacity of 1139 pph.
Since 6.3 seconds doesn’t go equally into 1 hour, the chair won’t transport the exact same amount of people each hour. If the chair brings up 1140 people one hour and 1138 the next, it averages out to a capacity of 1139.
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