Yesterday, the 11th of January, the Vasquez Cirque opened for the first time... for all of 1 hour. Unfortunately power surges have been closing the upper lifts, so patrol did a quick sweep and shut it down. The only open face was the south headwall- both the chute and the more northern face. Below, the 100s are open for quite a stretch south and north. West headwall all the way to waterfall are still closed- avalanche blasting has exposed the snow as frozen slabs. Just eye between the south and west headwalls to see how the snow is behaving. Not so good.
Snow is still crusty and the lifts may never open, so I don't know when the main gate will open again... but that's the current lowdown for anyone who cares.
What happens to a lift when it has power surges??????????
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Power Problems
Started by Kicking Horse, Jan 16 2004 08:41 PM
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Posted 16 January 2004 - 09:18 PM
It's not usually too eventful - usually the drive breaker will trip, or a fuse will blow. I believe on older technology, the lift may overspeed & shutdown. We had two of our phases short together (lift drive motors are three phase) causing a power surge & then a two-phase power outage, I was at the top of Paradise at the time - and the lift sped up past 100% and then hammered on both the service and emergency brakes, it was quite the stop. The weird thing was is we still had lights & control power, so we didn't know what happened until we heard it on the radio, and then we had to evacuate the lift on auxiliary.
- Allan
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