formercast84
New Member
A dead beam is rare, but a reduce power on the system isn't unusual. They trains have to move slower because they aren't getting enough power for standard operations. It happens more often than people think.
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Monorail/boat issues 7/3
- Thread starter Skyway
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A dead beam is rare, but a reduce power on the system isn't unusual. They trains have to move slower because they aren't getting enough power for standard operations. It happens more often than people think.
I guess i just never had the privledge.Seems like reduced power on the beamway would cause all kinds of havoc on the inverters and not really good on the traction motors.It must be a problem that they have fixed, because in a year and a half, i never saw it.
joel_maxwell
Permanent Resident of EPCOT
That would be a nice evening stroll.... a long one.. but a nice one.
unkadug
Follower of "Saget"The Cult
Why would they need power inverters. The beam is DC, the motors run off DC, the lights run off DC, the sound system runs off DC...
The internal power supply system consists of 2 buss stabilizers,7 inverters,the low voltage power supply,and battery back up power.Functions of the inverters are;Inverts 370 VDC from the buss stabilizers to 230 VAC to power additional systems.Inverters 1,2,4,5,and 7 send power to two air conditioning units each.Inverter 3 sends power to both cab air conditioning units,the air compressor ,and the ceiling lights.Inverter 6 sends power to two air conditioning units and the battery charger.Inverter 3 is the most importan because it runs the air compressor.Air pressure falls to low, train will not move.It's possible if there was a power sytem problem at a rectifier that it could cause issues with the mapo system and result in reduced speed.But it would only effect that section of the beam and not slow service down that much.
Mr.EPCOT
Active Member
Nope, they took those out to stop people from going back about twenty-thirty years and seeing how much better things were run at WDW.
Just trying to explain ,that yes inverters are needed.It would be fun to try to run everything of DC though.:ROFLOL:
unkadug
Follower of "Saget"The Cult
thank you. Learn something new everyday! :wave:
sportzfrk480
New Member
Ok... Lucky you im a boat pilot, and i was there the 3rd and the 4th. this is what happened... the monorails can and do fail at any given time and according to murphy's law that might just so happened to be during the fireworks. I was also told at the dock by my superiors that both monorails and boats would shut down during the fireworks, with the perimeter fireworks going off soo close to the lines and on the water. I know the boats shut down for a half hour before and a half hour after because of potential fallout from the island fireworks. whether the monorails actually closed for that reason i dont know. (The first guest sent down to our dock by monorails because they have broken down is usually the first we hear of it.) so that may have been it.
but as someone has already mentioned the boat route from MK to GF or Poly has been moved over to the dock with the campground and lodge, as we are in a drought (water line is down about 2 ft.) and docking where we used to is infeasible...
finally the walking path is not going to be finished anytime soon as the canal it is cut off by is the holding area for the electrical water pageant (which just so happens to be active during the fireworks), and a semi-backstage area, that channel is also the only way, if need be, to bring the liberty bell (the ferry around tom sawyer isle) back to dry dock and have maintenance performed.