Garage Door Openers Also Known As Garage Door Operators

Why is your garage door opener / garage door operator so important? Jon Phillips from A1 Garage Door Service joins Check A Pro Joe on this episode of Check A Pro Radio to explain. Jon goes into the nitty gritty of the importance of the proper garage door operator.

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Transcript of podcast:

The garage door is important to our home everybody and we don't think a lot about it when we press the button I asked my good friend John Phillips from A1 Garage Door Service to join me on the program today to talk about something that we just don't think a lot about and that's the garage door opener also called the garage door operator and John is going to Enlighten us about the differences the importance of the balance door and so forth John welcome to the program Hey Joe how's it going thanks for having me back on it's great to have you here so the garage door operator or what some people call the garage door opener it's an important piece isn't it yes it is it's uh it's the the brain of the operations it's what automates your door to make it convenient from you from your car and nowadays even your phone to 1:04 where you don't have to get out and open 1:05 it manually you can just do it all at 1:07 the push of a button a lot of changes in 1:09 technology before we dive into that tell 1:12 everybody who's listening the importance 1:14 of the door being balanced first before 1:17 that garage door operator does its job 1:21 so a lot of people are under the 1:23 impression that the the operator is what 1:26 lifts the entire door and we've covered 1:29 this in other sections as well but it 1:31 just automates it that's all it does it 1:33 just tells the door to open and close a 1:37 good functioning door with good parts on 1:39 it that's balanced with springs at 1:40 proper tension good bearings drums 1:43 cables hinges rollers making sure the 1:46 door is installed Plumbing straight and 1:48 perfectly aligned if these things aren't 1:50 done then the operator is kind of 1:52 useless and people spend good money on 1:54 operators and to to have a door that's 1:57 lacking or faulty in any of these 1:59 mechanical functions uh you could be 2:02 just wasting your money and ruining the 2:03 motor 2:04 yeah absolutely I encourage people all 2:06 the time to get their doors maintained 2:09 on a regular basis to make sure 2:11 everything is bolted down properly 2:13 literally screwed down because things 2:14 can loosen up and to make sure that that 2:16 spring is wound properly that it's in 2:19 good shape everything's lubricated and 2:21 the balance is so key and this is 2:23 something we talk about John and the 2:25 average person can't really figure out 2:27 the proper balance you guys use 2:29 equipment to determine whether or not 2:31 any given door is properly imbalanced 2:33 and then once it is everything is nice 2:36 and straight and square and everything's 2:39 in balance that garage door without the 2:41 operator without it engaged should 2:44 simply go up and down with just your 2:45 finger it should just move nice and 2:47 easily because we don't want a lot of 2:49 wear and tear on that garage door 2:51 operator so once it's all balanced the 2:54 garage door operator does its job so 2:57 there's a lot of new technology today 2:59 you want to talk about the differences 3:01 and and the great options there are 3:03 right without nerding out too much the 3:05 most basic function now is obviously 3:07 moving up and down and those motors used 3:10 to be AC Motors so alternating current 3:12 the motors were a little bit big a 3:14 little bit louder and then slowly but 3:17 surely we're progressing over to DC 3:19 motors so that's direct current it's a 3:22 smaller motor but in the garage door 3:24 application it's actually more powerful 3:25 and the coolest thing about it is with a 3:27 DC motor you have higher speed function 3:31 and what that does for your garage doors 3:33 so when the door goes to lay on the 3:35 ground and shut as the speed option 3:37 where it slows down and Feathers the 3:39 door down and that's the same thing when 3:40 coming up so it's not this abrupt 3:43 stopped where the doors hit in the 3:44 ground so anytime that you can hear the 3:46 door closing and hitting the ground 3:48 that's not good that's a jolt to the 3:50 entire system and it's a wear on the 3:52 doors with these DC motors that are 3:54 coming out now it's nice and gentle 3:56 pulls the door gradually gets up to 3:58 speed so it still opens it just as fast 4:00 it's just at the very end of that 4:02 closing and the very end of that opening 4:04 it feathers it nice and neat and so your 4:07 door is