This is a list of different elevator fixtures that have been made and/or used in LG elevators.
Mid to late 1990s
Batch 1 (standard)
After changing their name from GoldStar to LG (Lucky Goldstar), the company continued to make these fixtures under the LG name until the late 1990s. Buttons are black round with orange illuminating halo and symbol or number. In the LGP, MGP and HGP type elevators, the floor buttons will emit a beep sound when pressed.
There are two types of button panels that LG made. One is a dark grey colored surface mounted panel and the other one is just a basic stainless steel panel. For the surface mounted car stations, the floor indicator display is either slanted downward towards the floor (similar to an Otis Series 1 panel) or just flat. For the stainless steel panel, the floor indicator display is much smaller - these panels are usually found in bed or freight elevators[1][2]. All the indicators use red 10 to 12-segments display, along with two orange triangle arrows.
Batch 2
These fixtures use black square buttons with orange illuminating lamp. The floor indicator for is a long rectangular floor counter above the door with digital segments display. It is the same type as the one used by GoldStar in the 1980s.
Batch 3
These fixtures are usually found in luxurious places and high-rise elevators.
Black square buttons
These are black square buttons with an illuminating halo and white frame. The door open and close buttons are white.
Square touch sensitive buttons
These buttons are similar to the black square ones above but the collar/frame is an illuminating halo.
Round touch sensitive buttons
LG also made a round version of the touch sensitive buttons which are usually made of stainless steel with an illuminating halo. There was also a black version. These touch buttons are normally used as call buttons although they could also be used inside the elevator as floor buttons but this is very rare.[3]
Floor indicators
Like all the other fixtures, LG use red 10 to 12-segment digital display and two orange triangles for directional arrows.
Rolling text bar indicators (VMD series?)
This indicator is usually found in high-rise elevators. It is a multicolored LED text bar which shows analog-style floor numbers and sometimes custom text. An example of this indicator can be found in the elevators at Baiyoke Sky Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.
Hall floor indicators
Like its predecessor GoldStar, LG had a few types of hall/landing floor indicators. The most common and distinctive type is the one that has a slanted digital display in the middle along with two flat displays on the sides where the arrow would be shown. This indicator are found above the landing doors, and are either incorporated into the transom panel or just installed on the wall. There are also vertical hall floor indicators which are installed separately next to the landing doors. Some elevators also have the landing call stations combined with a floor indicator.
Hall lanterns
LG had several different variants of hall lanterns, with almost all of them were originated from the GoldStar era. The most common ones are the round glass lanterns with or without a triangle arrow. Another style was the vertical bar lanterns, with the lanterns protrudes from the panel. All of these lanterns lights up green, red or orange.
Mitsubishi fixtures
Like GoldStar, some 1990s LG elevators in South Korea used late 1980s-early 1990s Mitsubishi fixtures[5], due to the technical relationship between the two companies. These fixtures are exactly the same as the ones used in the Mitsubishi SPVF elevators except that they bear the LG brand instead. These fixtures are only found in South Korea.
Generic/third party fixtures
Dewhurst
In Hong Kong, all LG elevators installed in Public Housing Estate blocks, Home Ownership Scheme blocks and government buildings used Dewhurst fixtures which consist of US81 braille buttons and UL200 floor indicators (the latter are only used in Public Housing Estate blocks and Home Ownership Scheme blocks). Some elevators installed in commercial and private buildings are also fitted with Dewhurst buttons.[6]
A few early LG elevators in public housing blocks built by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) in Singapore also used Dewhurst's Black US81 buttons, along with Dewhurst's ULS47H LED indicators.
Unknown generic Korean buttons
Almost every LG elevators installed in Singapore's HDB public housing blocks from the mid 1990s to early 2000s use generic buttons from South Korea, with the standard LG button beeper. It is unknown what company that made these buttons.
Late 1990s to mid 2000s
Standard fixtures
These fixtures are used in Di (Distributed Inverter) elevators, as well as late models of L/M/H series elevators. These fixtures are available in two versions, one with a stainless steel capacity badge, and another with a plastic badge featuring the direction indicators. Buttons are stainless steel rounded rectangle buttons with illuminating halo, with letters printed or engraved. The alarm button can either be rectangle or round, the latter for the plastic badge version only. These buttons emit a beeping sound when pressed, and like all previous fixtures, the floor indicator uses 10 to 12-segments display, with a new orange LED option alongside red.
After LG's elevator division was bought by Otis to become LG-OTIS in 1999, the buttons were updated to feature braille marks and illuminated letters, and a convex square or round button with illuminated lettering was introduced. After LG-OTIS renamed to Otis Elevator Korea (OEK) in 2005, these fixtures were updated again with surface-mounted buttons and a new floor indicator design. By the 2010s, these fixtures are no longer made by OEK in South Korea, but they are still being made by its subsidiary company Sigma for other countries, especially for modernization of older GoldStar and LG elevators.
In some countries such as Singapore and Hong Kong, Dewhurst chassis are also provided as well as landlords request.[7] Meanwhile in the United States, these fixtures have been modified by adding braille plates next to the buttons to make them ADA compliant. In addition, the American version have a different alarm button which was not made by LG. It is unknown which company that made it.
Stainless steel capacity badge version
Plastic capacity badge version
Generic/third party fixtures
LG elevators in Singapore and Hong Kong often use generic fixtures like Dewhurst, normally using the US90-15 push buttons and vandal-resistant floor indicators (in Hong Kong only).
Notes and references
- ↑ LG Freight Elevator @ Tutuban Prime Block, Manila (ELEVATOR #7) - YouTube
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWyoOxTBhoA Unusual LG Traction Service Elevator - YouTube
- ↑ LG Traction Elevators at Travel Hotel Mangga Besar, Jakarta - YouTube
- ↑ That is later retrofit/same version by Sigma.
- ↑ 경기도 고양시 일산서구 탄현동 탄현 부영7단지 704동 LG산전엘리베이터 탑사기 (짝수)
- ↑ 灣仔彰顯大廈LG升降機 (3);LG elevator @ Bayfield Building, Wan Chai (3) - YouTube
- ↑ It means only indicators are in corresponding LG standard.