PSA: That 3-hour door adjustment turned into a 2-day mess on a Miconic 10

I had a Miconic 10 in a downtown Denver high-rise that started skipping floors. Thought it was just a door timing issue, figured 3 hours tops. Two days later I finally traced it to a corroded wire in the car top harness that only acted up when the cab hit a certain temperature. The intermittent signal loss drove me crazy. Anyone else run into ghost faults that take forever to find on these old systems?

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dakotawood2d agoMost Upvoted

Corroded wire on a Miconic 10? You mean Tuesday.

avery_lopez2d ago

Third pin from the left in the main control connector behind the car top station box, right? Had one that looked pristine till I scraped the jacket back and found green crust all the way up to the strain relief. Did yours show any weird phantom floor calls before you found it?

wesley_martin1h ago

Man, you wanna talk about a Tuesday? I had one of these things take me THREE full days once because of a wire that only acted up when the car went past the 14th floor. The vibration at that specific spot would just barely wiggle the broken strand. I felt like a real dummy standing there scratching my head while the building manager kept asking if I'd started drinking on the job yet. That third pin you mentioned is ALWAYS the culprit on these old beasts, it's like they designed it to be impossible to reach just for fun.