[Cory]

Originally Posted by octothorpe

Here's a picture that someone posted to illustrate the two types:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/at...achmentid=2834

Somewhere on Chief Delphi there's a powerpoint explaining the advantages and disadvantages of either type. I think Continuous is the most common and pretty clearly the better of the two (it's the version my team is considering). As far as I can tell, Cascade uses more wires, requires the up wire and down wire to move at different speeds, and causes each of the elevator segments to lift sooner (meaning a higher CG and thus more instability at anything less than full extension).

That was Chris H. You can find it here