Assuming I'm a young fit male.
2007-02-09 02:53:25 · 8 answers · asked by voiceofworldcontrol 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
U won't be kill if the cable snap. But you can be killed when u enter or exit the lift carriage because if the lift sudden move away from the floor, it act like a chopping knife and you will be chopped into pieces. And I alway took extra cautious when enter and exit the lift.
2007-02-09 03:33:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the cable snaps, the brakes will stop the elevator after a fall of about 2 feet.
2007-02-09 10:56:45 · answer #2 · answered by Gnomon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THe cables will never break. In the case that the weight in your elevator is above the listed capacity. THe elevator will stop.
But if you really want to know how many floors you would have to fall. As little as one floor could kill you. Depending on the way you are positioned in the elevator.
Heck, you can die for tripping on your shoe lace, if you fall just right.
2007-02-09 11:01:15 · answer #3 · answered by Michael Dino C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If all the traveling cables "snapped" {your odds of going to the moon before you die are better} the governor {monitors overspeed} would trip and cause the elevators safties to activate and stop the elevator.If you hit the pit before overspeed you would not be going fast enough to kill yourself. Hydraulic elevators don't use cables and don't have governors, and are used up to aprox. seven floors.They are drop tested and must pass before public use
2007-02-09 11:22:26 · answer #4 · answered by bob 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None.
There are automatic brakes on all modern elevators (in the US & Europe anyway) which will stop the levators in a short time after the cable breaks.
2007-02-09 10:57:49 · answer #5 · answered by JeffyB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Elevators have emergency brakes that work on cetrifical force the faster the wheel spin, the more they brake at a certiain speed the emergency brakes will engage about one floor free fall depending on there setting, It is unlikely that you would be hurt in a fall of only one floor.
2007-02-09 13:36:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You won't. Moderen elevators have breaks on the rails in case the cables snap.
2007-02-09 10:57:06 · answer #7 · answered by Nicnac 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Providing the emergency brakes don't fail, at least 4 stories of drop should do it. Remember falling doesn't kill you, its that sudden stop that does.
Although a pilot dropped over 30,000 feet and survived, his para shoot failed when he did an emergency ejection out of his aircraft.
2007-02-09 11:05:58 · answer #8 · answered by chefantwon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋