Gate Opener?

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Ugh, we have three at work and they are constantly needing worked on. I’m ‘kinda’ the go to guy to open them manually or reset them when needed.
Got to work at 5 a couple mondays ago. One gate was wide open and one was half open. Went back and watch security video so I could find out who I needed to chew out for messing up the gates. 1:47pm on Saturday there was a big lighting strike and fried everything.
Two weeks later and a repair bill of a little over 1k and they are working again.
 

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Ugh, we have three at work and they are constantly needing worked on. I’m ‘kinda’ the go to guy to open them manually or reset them when needed.
Got to work at 5 a couple mondays ago. One gate was wide open and one was half open. Went back and watch security video so I could find out who I needed to chew out for messing up the gates. 1:47pm on Saturday there was a big lighting strike and fried everything.
Two weeks later and a repair bill of a little over 1k and they are working again.


I was told years ago to never go AC power on Gate Openers. 12v DC only way, eliminates those elect surges, lightning strikes and power outages.

Now commercial might be a whole nother ballgame!
 

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I used to work with someone whose husband was a welder who built really nice (read: expensive) gates for a living. She said his advice was to avoid the big box store openers (IIRC, she specifically mentioned the Mule brand openers as ones to avoid), but I don't recall what he recommended. You might call custom gate builders and ask what they recommend. She said he usually had decent take-off (used) openers that he could make me a deal on, but I never did get around to that.

The apartment complex where I am now uses Chamberlain (IIRC) openers on its gates, but they're pretty serious overkill for a home gate.
 

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I used to work with someone whose husband was a welder who built really nice (read: expensive) gates for a living. She said his advice was to avoid the big box store openers (IIRC, she specifically mentioned the Mule brand openers as ones to avoid), but I don't recall what he recommended. You might call custom gate builders and ask what they recommend. She said he usually had decent take-off (used) openers that he could make me a deal on, but I never did get around to that.

The apartment complex where I am now uses Chamberlain (IIRC) openers on its gates, but they're pretty serious overkill for a home gate.


I have heard the Mule Brands are jokes too. Well 9 years on one so far! Funny thing a few companies I reached out to today said same thing as your coworkers husband!

I will say though I have it on a very lightweight gate and in high winds I secured it a lot over the years.

But now on this new to us place, I put a nice heavy pipe gate up on nice heavy ball bearings and also want it to lock when shut. So gonna not go back with a Mighty Mule.
 

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