Elevator Mechanic Exam Prep | Questions, Answers & Comprehensive Study Guide 2026/2027

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Elevator Mechanic Exam Prep

12 Floor Building with three cars, 3 floors will not get PI's. How many PI's in total do you need to
order for this job? - ANSWER ✔ 12 Floors x 3 Elevators= 36 PI's - (3 from 3 floors)9 =27



a 75 Ohm resistor has blow and you don't have a replacement, What can you use? - ANSWER ✔
3 - 225 Ohm resistors in parallel or 3 - 25 Ohm in series


A car keeps blowing a 3(Amp) fuse at the same point in the hoist way, What is the problem? -
ANSWER ✔ Exposed traveling Cable


A class C fire extinguisher can put out what type of fires?



136 Pg 22 - ANSWER ✔ Electrical equipment including motors and switches


A fire needs thee elements to burn
What are they?



136 Pg 4 - ANSWER ✔ Fuel, Oxygen, Heat


A mechanic has a car that weighs 7000 Lbs. with a capacity load of 3500 Lbs. The counter
weight balance is 40%, What does the counterweight weigh?



204 Pg 14 - ANSWER ✔ Counterweights typically are hung to counter balance the weight of the
car plus 40% of capicity load.


3500 (Capacity) x 40 ÷ 100 = 1400 Lbs




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1400 (40 % of capcity) + 7000 (Car Weight) = 8400Lbs.


A newly modernized car has a noticeable vibration, The application engineer has asked you to
determine the frequency (HZ) of your 24" drive sheave. (Roped 1:1 with a contract speed of 500
Fpm.) What is the frequency? - ANSWER ✔ 500fpm/3.1416=159.15
Convert size of sheave 24" to ft=2'
159.15/2=79.58
79.58/60 hz=1.33 hz


A team is installing a 200Fpm. car with spring buffers. What is the minimum stroke?



215 Pg 4 Figure 5 - ANSWER ✔ 4" inches


100 or less 1½
101 to 150 2½
151 to 200 4


Area of a plunger



815 Pg 15 - ANSWER ✔ (Pi) 3.1416 x (R)radius ²(squared)
Plunger diameter is 10"
So you divide ÷ by 2 = 5
3.1416 x 5² (25)= 78.54 inches


As a mechanic, you are sent to install an escalator.
What point of reference would you use to square the unit?




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825 Pg 5 - ANSWER ✔ Column Line


Category 1 Oil Buffer test, How many seconds should it take for the buffer to fully come back.



215 Pg 10 - ANSWER ✔ 90 seconds no load slow speed


Does a residential lift require an Escape Hatch



845 Pg 6 - ANSWER ✔ An Escape Hatch is not necessary UNLESS manual operation is not
provided!



During Hydraulic pit maintenance, what are the three major hazards? - ANSWER ✔ Oil, Tripping
and electricity


Encoder Waveform
Question : You get a Sawtooth reading on oscilloscope out of encoder. Is it good?



350 Pg 16,17 630 Pg 18,19 - ANSWER ✔ A perfect Encoder Wave Form will have a square wave.
A Sawtooth Wave Form is produced when the rise and fall of the Encoder has a fault,


Escalator is 10 inches too low, what was wrong?



825 Pg 12 - ANSWER ✔ Incorrect column mark


Escalator Step Level Switch




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