Wayne Dalton offers two types of garage door openers: the ceiling mount and the wall mount. The innovative wall mount opener eliminates the need for belts and chains that clutter up your garage’s ceiling. These openers are called iDrive openers and are designed to work with Wayne Dalton garage doors. They Armor Garage Doors are the most technologically advanced openers on the market today. It sticks to your garage’s wall, right above the door. The iDrive opener uses a torsion system that is suitable for both sectional and and wood doors. It also has several safety features that you will not finding regular garage doors.
When installing iDrive garage door openers you will still need cable snubbers or cable drum warps. These will be necessary to keep the door counterbalanced. It will prevent the door from unspooling if it detects an obstruction. The iDrive garage opener operates at a frequency of 372 MHz and does not have to be installed directly above the door’s center. It can be placed anywhere along the TorqueMaster tube, you just have to make sure that leave enough disconnect cable to hang at least 6 feet off the ground. The iDrive opener comes with a power cord that is 6 feet long, but 15 feet extender cords are available as well.
The iDrive garage door opener does not have any width limitations, but your door can not be higher than 8 feet and must weigh below 225 Garage Door Store pounds. When first installing the garage opener you will have to run the install routine to test if of it is operating correctly.
