Check for metal in your door
Vérifiez si votre porte contient
du métal
Controleren op metaal in de deur
Comprobación de existencia de
metal en la puerta
Controlla la presenza di metallo
nella tua porta
Prüfen Sie Ihre Tür auf Metall
EN
It is important to check for metal in your door before
installing the pet door. If not planned for, metallic
materials in your door can interfere with the sensor in the
SmartDoor
™
, affecting performance. To check for metal:
Drill a 5/16-inch (8 mm) hole at the center/centre of where
you expect the pet door opening to be. You don’t need to drill
all the way through your door, just far enough to determine
whether the door contains metal.
Inspect the shavings that came out of the hole you created. If
the shavings:
• Do not contain any metal at all, you will cut the
opening for your pet door using the cutting template
for non-metal doors
.
• Contain metal or foil, even in small amounts, you will need
to create a slightly larger cutout opening for the pet door,
using the cutting template
for metal doors
. Installing the
SmartDoor
™
within a larger cutout opening increases the
distance between the metal in your door and the sensor in
the SmartDoor
™
and improves performance.
Important:
If your door contains a significant amount of
metal, we recommend you install your SmartDoor
™
using
SmartDoor
™
Connected Pet Door Installation Adaptors (sold
separately). Installation adaptors make it possible to install the
pet door within the largest cutout opening, optimizing the
performance of the SmartDoor
™
sensor in the metal door.
Step-by-step instructions for this installation are provided with
the installation adaptors.
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