Talk:Shabbat elevator

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[edit] Capacitor vs. Resistor

"Regenerative braking is also disabled if it is normally used, shunting energy collected from downward travel, and thus the gravitational potential energy of passengers, into a capacitor network. This prevents violation of the Shabbat prohibition against doing useful work"

I believe the original statement of "into a resistor network" is correct, as the article is referring to what happens in the case the elevator being in Sabbath mode. 134.173.56.219 04:54, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sabbath

This article is named "Sabbath elevator", but the See also link links to "… Shabbath". Is it Sabbath or Shabbath?

See Shabbat#Etymology.--FocalPoint 20:42, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No Button Pushing

How does the elevator know when it needs to start moving, open it's doors, or go to a floor if there is no button pushing on the Sabbath? Does it just go up and down all day regardless of whether or not there are passengers? 198.151.12.10 (talk) 23:35, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, precisely. It goes up and down all day, opening and closing the doors on every single floor, regardless of whether or not there are passengers or which floors they got on or off at. -- pne (talk) 10:13, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Name of the article

I believe that since the elevator is actually called Sabbath elevator, the move to Shabbat elevator is not appropriate.--FocalPoint (talk) 18:04, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

A check by Google indicates "129.000 for Sabbath elevator" and "168.000 for Shabbat elevator", showing that both are in use. My position is therefore changed to neutral for this move.--FocalPoint (talk) 20:01, 17 May 2008 (UTC)