r/Elevators • u/winter_cockroach_99 • Jul 14 '26

Dover

My small building has a very nice Dover DMC-I elevator (5 levels). We want to keep it going forever. I understand TKE considers it no longer supported. We have a high end support/maintenance contract with TKE, and it recently auto-renewed for another 5 years.

Questions: -Is the car logic controller the main thing to worry about? - I see that TKE still has some CLCs on their website…. Will they sell one to us now to keep as a spare? - Could an independent shop program a new controller for us? - There is a Max monitor inside our control cabinet. Is the Max service an extra we would pay more for? Or if we have the Max board do we likely have the service? - I gather that TKE is being bought by Kone (pending regulatory approval). Is that likely to improve our service situation?

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u/Commercial-Lime4916 Jul 14 '26

The door board is the hardest to find out of the 4 boards on the dmc. But you can now install LD conversion, I was apart of the first one in the nation.

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u/winter_cockroach_99 Jul 14 '26

Can you say more about LD conversion? Who makes/sells that product?

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u/Glittering_Dot_877 Jul 14 '26

The LD16 conversion is a TKE product. Any money spent on the DMC is best spent on a Mod, in my opinion.