Automated Gates for Homeowners Looking to Have the Decoration of a Driveway Gate but the Maximum Amount of Convenience
We hear quite often that homeowners are putting up a driveway gate either to give their property entry a finished look or to keep deer out. In both of these cases, the gate is not meant to keep people out, which is why they are looking to make it an automated gate. However, they also want to see how they can take it a step further and have the gate not be a hindrance to entry for cars or a burden on them to open or manage for guests.
One method that is popular is an exit wand on both sides of the gate. This will make it so both driving up to and driving out of the gate will automatically open it for any car. It will also prevent deer from opening the automated gate because exit wands only detect metal. (Note: Exit wands open gates; they do not close them. The gate opener’s auto-reclose feature is what closes the gate. All brand gate openers have this feature built into them.) One downside to the two-exit-wand idea is if the gate is near the road. If a passing car moves close enough to the range of the wand, it can trigger the automated gate to open even though the car is not entering the property.
One way to stop your automated gate from being falsely triggered by the road is to add a photo eye in series with the entry exit wand. This will create a situation where not only must there be moving metal from a car within range of the exit wand, but there must also be an object blocking the beam of the photo eye at the same time. A trigger from only one of the two devices will not allow the gate to open.
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