Installation and Maintenance Manual
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Important Information For Gate System Owners & Users
WARNING: To reduce the risk of serious injury or death, read and follow all instructions in
the gate operator handbook and on the warning labels.
Save These Important Owner and User Instructions:
(Installers - be certain to instruct the owners and users about the following items)
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Automatic gates are for vehicular use only! Provide walkways and signs to direct pedestrians to
a separate walk-through entrance. Because an automatic gate can start at any time without
warning, always keep people away from the area of the gate. The Warning signs that have been
supplied with this operator must remain installed, in manner clearly visible, in the area of both
sides of the gate.
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Never allow children to use or play with controls that operate the gate. Keep all remote controls,
especially radio transmitters, away from children.
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Teach all users how to turn off the electric power and how to release and move the gate manu-
ally. Use the manual release only when the gate is not moving.
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Test the function of the gate operator monthly. The gate MUST reverse its direction of travel
upon contact with a rigid object, and/or stop upon a sensing a 2nd sequential activation prior to
reaching a full travel limit. Also test for the normal function of any non-contact sensors. If the
gate system employs the use of a transmitting edge sensor, be especially certain to test and
replace its battery on a routine basis.
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KEEP AUTOMATIC GATES PROPERLY MAINTAINED. Have a professional gate installer
perform routine tests of the entrapment protection sensors, such as photo eyes and gate edges.
Also, make all necessary repairs to the gate hardware to keep the gate running smoothly. Fail-
ure to adjust and test a gate operator properly can increase the risk of injury or death.
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In addition to appropriately placed external entrapment sensors, ask your installer to reduce the
setting of the pressure relief valve to the lowest setting allowable that reliably operates the gate.
This valve controls the force of the operator, and the sensitivity of the inherent reversing sensor.
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Do not attempt disable or muffle the Warn Before Operate buzzer, except in class IV
restricted access locations. This buzzer provides an alert that the gate is about to move.
