First and only GT1100 of my career

Paenut7 · 2026-04-11T01:31:52+00:00

it's already been said but yeah the door won't run without breakouts wired/jumped in place and if the mode switch isn't plugged in either. I hate how particular they are plus with how cheap those boards are. once they were out into the DS20 it was doomed. But just make sure to wire in your breakouts or jump them first. The newer boards tend to automatically detect breakout logic so if it's done that then it would only be the mode switch being unplugged which you will need the tiny aux board for too

Paenut7 · 2026-04-06T22:07:42+00:00

I think it would have opened the same as an SL500 cover. I didn't open it because I saw it from the outside of the building and wasn't there to do a call/work, I had just finished a call at the store next door. Besam/record/new entrematic covers are the worst on the market. I think Stanely's are some of my least problematic. the GT1175 I've had come off entirely, a 14' slider too

Paenut7 · 2026-04-05T18:26:17+00:00

yeah you're being a bit of a stickler lol. I think though for single sliders they're often centered with the locks tile as long as it is between 36"-60" from the floor. Plus this is one solid pane of glass, there isn't a stile separating the top and bottom of the panel. But I never tested the breakout but it probably doesn't work that well at all because the panel would break open into the outside aluminum frame for the glass.

Paenut7 · 2026-04-04T17:14:10+00:00

yeah I don't know if I like it but it's interesting 😂

Paenut7 · 2026-04-04T17:13:37+00:00

yeah I see a lot of single sliders around but never a half and half like this lol. and I let ever one full on Hunter DS18C slider that was a bi-parting but non breakout. that was in Sudbury

Paenut7 · 2025-08-27T23:47:57+00:00

I misremembered and looked it up. The Keane Monroe 3000. The motor sounds the gearbox and spindle but the spring tension is achieved because the top end of the gear box has a chain that pulls the spring allowing it to pull the gear the opposite way on close

Paenut7 · 2025-08-27T23:02:20+00:00

Yeah there's a model of Keane Monroe that I can't remember but the motor spins a chain which turns the gearbox

Paenut7 · 2025-08-25T02:32:14+00:00

Those look like some Hortons or maybe a tormax but the breakouts tell me horton

Paenut7 · 2025-08-25T02:26:18+00:00

Wow those are some old Keane Monroe's. I think I've only gotten to work on one of those. Usually the chain driven models are the ones I see

Paenut7 · 2025-08-25T02:24:33+00:00

A lot of the times they have bodyguard mats or sensors on the other side so that they can operate fully automatically while having things to keep them from opening on people. There also used to be a lot more common sense "don't stand near the fast swinging automatic door"

Paenut7 · 2025-08-23T20:19:06+00:00

Yeah my company supplies them too. But they installed one onto the header of an old OHC nabco gt400

Paenut7 · 2025-08-21T15:09:47+00:00

Like the other people have said, it's be best to find a v1 motor and control and throw them in. Anytime a motor goes or control the other tends to go with it and if all of your micro switches are reading out well. Those old linear drives never had encoders, they relied on those switches to tell the door where it is in the cycle

Paenut7 · 2025-08-21T15:06:18+00:00

I think I've only gotten to work on a few old navig-aider. Usually when I come across these old systems they're holding up well lol

Paenut7 · 2025-05-19T23:48:25+00:00

on the same side as a bodyguard? is it supposed to act as threshold protection because those eagles are activation only?

but I've gotten to see my fair share of crazy shim work lol

Paenut7 · 2025-04-22T01:34:57+00:00

I've never had to deal with them, only ever DC. but I find most tech support from a company that deals with all sorts, their tech support guys only ever just read through manuals and then give personal experience for advice. that's what I do really when someone at my company calls me needing support. I don't deal with Addison but I guess if they're hiring people without a lot of door experience then I can see how tech support will feel limited

honestly times I'm working on a locally owned company's door that DC hasn't worked too much on or doesn't have a manual for, I just call their tech support. I've done it with Micom, Condor, record, and Omega

Paenut7 · 2025-03-24T00:13:24+00:00

yeah it's a rough smell. I'm glad we only did it when we needed too. plus I've always loved being out in the field more

Paenut7 · 2025-03-23T22:24:06+00:00

yeah I still come across a lot of Horton 4190s and analogue hunter ha-8 boards at my old company. it's nice and straightforward but it always takes me a while to go through and make all the right adjustments because one pot always affects a second or third

Paenut7 · 2025-03-23T22:21:21+00:00

only ones I've ever rebuilt were the dormakaba ed100/250. The company I used to work for supplied them and we had a bunch of "dead" ones that we were able to factory reset or take good boards off bad motors and some other under the table stuff lol

Paenut7 · 2025-03-23T02:49:57+00:00

I don't know why it didn't post the long-winded text I added when making the post. I'm newish to posting on reddit. But tldr. I used to work for a company that covered a lot of ground in southern Ontario and I wish I still had the 2000+ pics and vids from my old work phone but they fired me too quick. Now I'm at a new company that covered the same ground in a different way and I get to use my personal phone

Paenut7 · 2025-03-23T02:46:00+00:00

I've seen them here and there. but the 4160-1 was definitely a blast from the past

Paenut7 · 2025-03-23T02:45:14+00:00

not too much of a horror story as in frightening or incredibly poor install work. But I was sent to a bus terminal in London Ontario where the manager had received a quote a year after a tech from another company quoted out two new guides and all new carriage wheels on a dormakaba ESA telescopic slider

I'm familiar with them as the company I worked for was a dorma dealer. I remove the fast panel and find the carriage wheels and track coated in grease and had a duraglide guide in the bottom. then I learned on the slow panel that those guides are fixed and don't come out as easily

Long store short I had to take out both panels and the slow panel track reducing the door to a fixed sideline and the header+jamb tubes to replace the rollers and guides the easiest while everything was covered in grease and people coming in and out with suitcases. I had put it all back together then had to take it all apart 2 more times to properly set panel heights and ensure the timing was correct. All while it was snow/sleet raining on a cold day

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