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[SkiDaBird]

Imperial at Breck is under 1000 pph correct?

[DonaldMReif]

When Imperial opened, it had just 15 chairs on it. They eventually doubled the number of chairs to the current 30 chairs about a year or so later.

[Aussierob]

Jersey Cream at Blackcomb is 2864 pph and we do run it at full speed. HSQ

[llamborghinii]

Was just about to mention imperial express. I'm not sure how they decide how many chairs are on the rope, but I saw both 25 and 30 at different times last season.

[llamborghinii]

I believe the High Rustler lift at Alta has 7 chairs as well. I can't think of any lift with fewer chairs than that.

[DonaldMReif]

Rustler has just six chairs.

[passengerpigeon]

Fixed grip single:
Lowest capacity - Chvatimech, Valaská-Chvatimech, 150pph
Highest capacity - Gospinca, Krvavec, 1000pph

[ss20]

Mount Snow claim's their in-house chain-driven double chairs from the 50s and 60s had a capacity of 1200 pph. Pretty remarkable for the time.

[snoloco]

I know I mentioned the Pony Express at Steamboat for being low capacity. I read in their master plan that when it was installed in 1998 it had a capacity of 1200 pph which it still has today. However, it was built with the option to add chairs and increase to 1,800 pph which they want to do when snowmaking is added to Longhorn and Middle Rib. I rode it today and it has few towers for a 5,000 foot long lift (only 15 including initial hold down). It definitely can't do more than 1800

[Smacpats]

It looks like sunday river express, white peaks express, jordan bowl express, Carpenter, snowshed, Superstar and the old Siberia (replaced by HSS this year) are all listed as 3k (HSQs)
http://www.skilifts....sr/sre/sre.html
http://www.skilifts....ille/wp/wp.html
http://www.skilifts....sr/jbe/jbe.html
http://www.skilifts....r/carpenter.htm
http://www.skilifts....ria/siberia.htm
http://www.skilifts....d/snowshed.html
http://www.skilifts..../superstar.html

This post has been edited by Smacpats: 17 April 2016 - 04:17 AM

[liftmech]

snoloco, on 30 December 2015 - 06:59 PM, said:

I know I mentioned the Pony Express at Steamboat for being low capacity. I read in their master plan that when it was installed in 1998 it had a capacity of 1200 pph which it still has today. However, it was built with the option to add chairs and increase to 1,800 pph which they want to do when snowmaking is added to Longhorn and Middle Rib. I rode it today and it has few towers for a 5,000 foot long lift (only 15 including initial hold down). It definitely can't do more than 1800

Our '11 Doppelmayr has 15 towers and runs 2400 PPH. Towers have very little to do with capacity, more the overall load and length of a lift. By that logic mine should do an ungodly number at 35 towers

[snoloco]

Pony Express has very widely spaced towers and if it had twice as many chairs, it would drag on the ground because it would sag so much. According to Steamboat's master plan, that lift was built with 1,200 pph, but designed to be upgraded to 1,800.

[liftmech]

I guess I'm not making myself clear. If they upgraded the capacity the tension would be correspondingly higher, and the carriers would still not drag on the ground. I understand that the master plan says the lift is only good to 1800 PPH; my point is that the number of towers affects capacity much less than you think. The lift here that I was referring to is also 5000' long.

[snoloco]

I read the remonteesmecaniques page for both lifts. The towers seem about equally spaced on both, maybe slightly more on Pony. Didn't know that lifts with a higher capacity usually run at a higher tension. That would keep the chairs from hanging too low.

[liftmech]

Yup. I have two tension settings for my lift; 95 bar at 2400 and 105 at 2800.

[snoloco]

So it's 2,400 now and it would have the higher tension if upgraded to 2,800m

[liftmech]

Correct. Although seeing how many problems people have loading now, 2800 PPH would suck. The thing would never run well.

[alexboesen]

Imperial Express at Breckenridge is at 600 PPH

Another lift for the list - Squaw Valley Funitel 4000 PPH

[2milehi]

600 PPH means 24 seconds between chairs. This seem a little excessive from what I remember (15 chairs on line during early season).

[skierdude9450]

Imperial Express was built originally with 15 carriers for 600 p/h, however 15 additional carriers were added the first year bringing the total capacity to 1200 p/h.