Looking For Reversible Single Cabin Gondola or Tramway

Started by egieszl, Aug 17 2016 10:38 AM

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#1 egieszl

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Posted 17 August 2016 - 10:38 AM

Does anyone know of an example of a single-side reversible gondola. Similar to a pulse gondola with one or a few carriers close together, but reversible and with essentially only one line or side. Obviously the wire rope will form a loop, but carriers will be hung only one side.

I'm looking basically for an aerial lift that can run in a narrow corridor, across a short distance, that has low passenger capacity requirements.

Can you please point me to some examples.

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#2 _litz

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Posted 17 August 2016 - 02:40 PM

How well would that work?

The counterweight effect of the other cabin (or cabins) on a circular line are what make your haul rope motor capacity needs as low as they are (yes, it's big motors, but they're much smaller than required because of the counterweight effect).

With only a single side, you're effectively installing a winch on the uphill side to haul the carrier up and down the line, and has to haul the full weight

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#3 skiersage

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Posted 17 August 2016 - 04:14 PM

There are pics of such a lift on the main site. It is the ridge gondola at heavenly.
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#4 teachme

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Posted 18 August 2016 - 09:52 AM

I've seen more than a few driving around Europe. Many of them were small and temporary built beside normal trams and used for construction or rebuilding of the tram. Others were service lifts to TV towers or such. http://gondolaprojec...goods-delivery/

The second cable car at Stelvio Pass is also interesting as it is two cabins on two lines, but they are independent from each other. In this case two were built to allow one to evac the other over a glacier. In other situations I'm sure only one would be needed.

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#5 Lift Dinosaur

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Posted 18 August 2016 - 10:12 AM

Leitner Poma has built a few such systems, but they are 2S or bi-cable as opposed to mono-cable.
Here are some photos of one at Pacoima Dam, CA

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#6 _litz

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Posted 18 August 2016 - 02:03 PM

What design considerations need to be made to accommodate the lack of counterweight, due to the single path?

e.g., horsepower, bullwheel slippage, etc ?