Millennium Force
Quick question.
I was at the park this weekend. Busy as can be lol.
I just had a question about Millenium Force.
When I was riding it Friday night, it was almost to the top of the hill and got really loud on the track. The car after us was really loud to the point I heard it as I was walking away. Then it wasn’t running for a while. What can cause that?
Millennium is designed so that the anti rollbacks don’t touch the track when it is going up the hill quickly. When the train slows down or even stops the anti rollbacks engage. Millennium’s anti rollbacks are incredibly loud. On some days when the train was dispatched too early the lift motor will slow down or even stop until the train in front gets into the exit platform. When it slows down the anti rollbacks engage and cause that noise. I’m not sure why it stopped running but maybe the lift motor was acting up again as they’ve had a lot of problems with it this year.
Thank you very much for the answer. I’ve ridden it many times over the years and never heard that before. Kinda made me nervous lol.
If it was the anti-rollbacks, what was said earlier is right. From what I recall, there's a small wheel that runs along the plate next to the cable lift, which rotates and generates power to pull up the anti-rollbacks once the train is moving. If the train starts to slow down, the anti-rollbacks lose power and drop, making an obnoxiously loud noise. This also seems to happen in the rain sometimes, when that generator wheel is presumably slipping and allows the anti-rollbacks to drop momentarily.
If it was throughout the ride, I'm not sure. Could've been a bad wheel? But again, not sure.
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