![]() ![]() ![]() But you would need to run the motor under an actual load and measure the temperature rise and the rate of temperature rise to determine if it is suitable.Ĭlick to expand.Ah! The pioneering spirit that made this country great lives on! No degrees necessary to participate and learn here. It may turn out that your garage door motor could work fine, although perhaps with a cooling fan attached to its shaft for prolonged operation. Here is yet another example of a newbie posting a solution (re-purpose a motor salvaged from a garage door opener) instead of asking for help to solve a problem (how do I select a motor to operate my grain mill?). Running the motor continuously for ten minutes is probably outside the design specifications for that motor. One minute (or less) ON followed by at least a minute of OFF time for motor cooling is reasonable. One does not normally spend endless periods of time opening and closing garage doors. Garage door motors are designed for intermittent duty. That may account for why it "got pretty hot" after running for one minute. If your motor does not run in two directions, it is either wired incorrectly or damaged. This is usually done by reversing the motor direction. Garage doors go up or down, requiring some mechanism to reverse the direction when fully raised or fully lowered, or when an obstruction is encountered. Given your statements that (1) the motor turns in one direction only, and (2) that it "got pretty hot" after running for one minute, leads me to believe that this particular motor is either wired wrong by you, or it is unsuitable for use to drive a grain mill, with or without reduction pulleys. Seek the services of a licensed electrician before you set something on fire. ![]() If our light module is what you need, I'm sure we can come to some arrangement.Click to expand.If the ladder diagram offered by fios agaibh does not make any sense to you, then you are totally unqualified to re-purpose your garage door opener. I can only *guess* that the light modules are the same. I can no longer find the original light module (maybe we got rid of it), but ISTR that it had a sensor next to the red button.īTW, ours is the iDrive for Torsion Springs, not the iDrive TorqueMaster. How to tell the difference? The only way I know is that the original one had a hole near the red button on the opener, with the IR diode peeking through that hole. When that all went kaput a couple of years ago W-D sent a complete new unit - the one that has recently quit and cannot be repaired. Have you tried cleaning the contact on the bulb socket? Have you tried retraining the light to the opener?ĭo you know which kind of opener/light module combination you have? Our original one had an infra-red link between the opener and the light module, but this gave a lot of trouble and W-D sent a replacement circuit board and light module which used a radio-frequency link. Our light module seemed to act up a few times over the past few months, but I think it was really just a poor contact with the center contact on the bulb. Those poor German workers! Fancy being paid even less than Chinese workers so that they can keep their jobs! *It really does seem to have been made in Germany, not in China with a German company's name on it. It is very quiet but significantly slower than the iDrive (which was claimed to be much faster than other drives).Ĭons: a) the wall station is not wireless as the iDrive's was, so there is additional wiring to run b) the iDrive had a delayed-closing feature, so that I could press the button and walk out through the still-open door, which would then close behind me c) no staples were included, so I had to make a special trip to the store to buy some to staple the wiring in place. A metal arm connects the door to a carriage containing that motor. The design is very simple: a 24V DC motor with a sprocket travels along a fixed chain inside a metal C-channel. (Amazon also sells them, but there is no free shipping option.) Adding the wireless keypad gets the total price into the free-shipping category. Lowe's and HD both sell them for the same price ($228), but only on line: not in the stores. I read the reviews of the German-made* Sommer Synoris 550 opener and decided to buy one. Our Wayne-Dalton iDrive quit - although the motor was supposed to have a lifetime warranty, they are no longer made and no parts available. ![]()
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