Does Stowe, VT really have the fastest eight person gondola? According to their hotel's website they do...
http://www.stowemoun....com/winter.php
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True or False?
Started by maplevalleymaster, Nov 04 2006 03:42 PM
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Posted 04 November 2006 - 07:22 PM
It's line speed is listed at 1,212 feet per minute (About 6.1 meters per second).
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Posted 04 November 2006 - 08:18 PM
Sunshine also claims the world's fastest 8 passenger gondola, but it is not true. It is 1200 fpm. I emailed them about this and they never responded.
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Posted 05 November 2006 - 11:55 AM
at one time or another the Stowe Gondola may have been the fastest...
On busy days I will run her sister "Skyeship" @ 1200fpm interconnected, yes she can go faster
but not much...
Iam pretty sure there is a max speed allowed for detach quads in Vermont
however I do not have the updated addendums
but I have been wrong before...
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On busy days I will run her sister "Skyeship" @ 1200fpm interconnected, yes she can go faster
but not much...
Iam pretty sure there is a max speed allowed for detach quads in Vermont
however I do not have the updated addendums
but I have been wrong before...
False ... "final answer"
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Posted 05 November 2006 - 07:26 PM
liftmech, on Nov 5 2006, 03:28 PM, said:
I'm pretty sure maximum speeds are design-related, not stated in law.
I,M not sure but u can drive'em as fast as they can handle. But i've never seen anything that can run faster than 1100 if u got a lift that can i'd love 2 c it. We have a six-pack Dopp and like i said 1100 is her round about top speed. Our gond is a 12 pers POMA and we run her round 1000 on a good day any wind so on and she runs around 850 - 900 anymore and its just not safe just thinck every sec counts on a derail.
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Posted 05 November 2006 - 07:36 PM
8ppl @ 1300 say at 2 mile's lngh = 1200 cap per hr... 10 ppl @ 1100 same lngh=1200 cap... 12 ppl @900 same lngh =1200 cap... sfer speed and just as many 2 the top. >;}
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Posted 05 November 2006 - 07:50 PM
I wouldn't say a gondola is safer at a slower speed. It seems to me like it is just an issue of maintenance cost at higher speed vs. initial cost to build a lift with bigger cabins.
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Posted 06 November 2006 - 05:21 AM
How would it not be safer at a slower speed? To me, slower speed=shorter stopping distance=less possibility of passenger injury or equipment damage.
That being said, if the lift is designed to go at a certain speed, and you've maintained it and set it up to manufacturer's spcifications, it should be able to run at that speed no problem (barring factors like wind and ice of course.)
That being said, if the lift is designed to go at a certain speed, and you've maintained it and set it up to manufacturer's spcifications, it should be able to run at that speed no problem (barring factors like wind and ice of course.)
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Posted 06 November 2006 - 08:54 AM
Skyeship CAN go faster that 1200 fpm but one of the lift mechs said VT regs prevent this from happening and such a governer is built into the equiptment regulationg this as such. He also said when they first built it during testing they had the line speed with cabins at 1500 fpm. I would have liked to see that! I don't even want to think about the tower faults that would have caused though because right now they can't run it at 1200 fpm without tower faults being caused. bla...i'm babbling again
anyway, the stations are long enough on skyeship to allow the lift to go faster.
anyway, the stations are long enough on skyeship to allow the lift to go faster.
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Posted 06 November 2006 - 05:09 PM
I think that Stowe's gondola was the fastest when it was built in 1991. It was the first lift to go 1200 fpm.
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Posted 07 November 2006 - 07:47 AM
... and when you are talking about the difference between 1200 fpm and 1212 fpm, it is some Marketeer using a non scientific calculator to convert from feet to meters!
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Posted 08 November 2006 - 08:25 AM
"It's still splitting hairs... "
1% ? It sure is. Good argument for analog meters (in some cases).
1% ? It sure is. Good argument for analog meters (in some cases).
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