Reversing Trends: An Unsensored Garage Door

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- It is technology that employs a soft touch, but removes a big pain for garage door owners, while making it safer?

How could something that requires touch be safer than a photo-eye sensor, non-touch system?

Electric door openers with adjustable, high force settings can be purchased almost anywhere, and can be attached to a myriad of overhead type doors including homemade doors. Martin's U.L. listed system, without photo-eyes, is actually sold as a garage door and opener system. Martin Garage Doors had to pass various tests and add new safety features, ranging from very low force adjustability to probe safety tests on the door.

The Martin system can't be over adjusted or defeated by simple means, like many other openers with photo eyes can be. A Florida contractor recently installed his photo-eyes sensors towards the ceiling. His son was killed when the door didn't reverse.  

Found in elevators, subway doors, automobiles, and now U.L. Listed Martin Garage Doors, the soft touch technology continually monitors resistance. Also, children cannot play riding the door up because the resistance added is outside the normal operating range.

Soft touch reverse technology meets all the requirements of UL 325 -- a key child safety requirement for door and gate openers.  Some experts have argued that the law mandates photo eyes with each garage door opener, but U.L. listing of the Martin Garage Door system, along with one other product, demonstrates otherwise.

Since the introduction of photo eyes in the 1980's, the vulnerability of the safety device to sunlight, cobwebs, bent brackets, dirt or even mice, has shown how flighty the sensors can be.  They can be defeated by something as simple as a child straddling the sensors.  

For more information see www.martindoor.com.

SOURCE Martin Garage Doors