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That one day last month when three elevators went down in the same building

I was working a routine maintenance call at a 12-story office building downtown and suddenly got calls for three separate cars stuck in the same hour. Turned out the controller board on the main line had a cracked solder joint that was causing intermittent faults. Managed to patch two of them back online with a quick swap from my truck, but the third needed a whole new board that took two days to ship. Has anyone else had a domino failure like that where one bad part took out multiple cars?
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xena_hernandez98
Whoa wait, you had THREE cars go down from a single cracked joint? That's insane man. I've seen a power surge take out two at once but never something that small causing that kind of chain reaction. Must've been a nightmare tracking that down with people screaming from inside the cars.
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logan271
logan27118d ago
Man, that sucks. One bad connection taking out the whole system.
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pat_harris
pat_harris18d ago
Always feels like the weakest link gets you every time.
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