well let's let's just take two I had forgotten I have my phone number on my
sign on my gate and I just talking away with my phone number there and you know
99 people out of a hundred wouldn't think twice of the phone number being
there but I know there's some weirdo out there that really dislikes me and well
just because they don't like me doesn't mean they're weirdos they might be just
regular people who don't like me anyway I got a gate opener and first I'd like
to thank Pooh Bear for telling me about this it was on Craigslist
it was 240 miles roundtrip but I got it and I won't even tell you what I got for
cuz I'm I I'm almost embarrassed to have gotten away with this for so few dollars
but it's everything it's the entire kit and a brand-new in-the-box with a solar
panel battery and a battery box and it was worth the 240 miles to go get it and
I have scoured the Internet and I'm going to be careful not to show my my
number I've scoured the internet and there just is not any detailed mounting
instructions for this so I'm going to see if I can do a better job I've shown
how to put this up I've never done this before so you know there's going to be a
first I'm going to learn as I go kind of thing so we're all going to learn but
let me start getting my parts together and and the first thing the instructions
did I say instructions I mean I would never look at instructions first thing
I'm supposed to do is open my gate these are the the mounting brackets for this
along with this and that's going to now start marking out where these go and on
the other end this attaches to this on the gate I'll tell you what I'm going to
do first though this is the easiest and quickest part and I can get a whole
bunch of hardware out of the way and not think about it I'm going to
mount this solar panel first and I'll show you after it's done I'll show you
what it looks like because that's a piece of cake
you just have to aim it south and put in an area where it will get Sun and in an
area where the length of cord here will reach here we go okay get the little
panel that's a little 5 watt panel
pretty easy easy to mount and just aim it south and I've just got the wire laid
out of the way right now I'm not certain whether that goes direct
to the battery or to the unit and then from a unit to a battery we'll see all
right now let me start on the brackets that actually hold the motor all right I
got the mounting bracket mounted and
this has all kinds of adjustments you can put this straight out or a little
further out and this is a very heavy gate and the further away from the gate
you can mount the motor the more torque it's going to have when it pulls it
close or pushes it I mean pulls it open or pushes it closed the closer this the
motor is to the to the gate the less leverage is going to have to push it
closed or pull it open so how much right here there's a bunch of adjustments it
just doesn't work I'll have to move it in some but I want it as far away from
the gate as I can get it that way whatever power that little motor has
will work to its fullest potential being at a less shallow angle the steeper the
angle or the closer to perpendicular you can get this motor the less is going to
be required of the little tiny motor in there that turns the screw that opens
and closes it so I'm going to start with this and see how that works ok I'm not
100% sure but I believe you can thread this out
in order to mount this next bracket where you want and what I'm going to do
is I'm going to cut out a plate to bolt between this and this and then the
bracket that this mounts to I'm going to bolt on the middle of that plate now I
have opened or closed this gate here I'll show you what I'm doing here and
there are 16 inches of travel in this arm and between the the point here where
I want to mount it which is not here but here this is where I'm going to mount it
when it's when the gate is open the bracket will be right here and when it's
closed this thing that looks like it's going to have to travel about 12 inches
which is going to be just fine so that's what I'm going to do I'm going to make
my plate and mount it right here and since I have plenty of travel left on
this arm that's going to be just a perfect place to put it so let me go in
to cut a plate out drill some holes in here and get that mounted yeah I didn't
make a plate I just used the angle iron and now this goes in there I got to put
that pin in neglected to tell you that this has to be level eye level that
before I bolted that and okay now what I have to do is take this back off flip it
over put it back on and the reason is so you can get to this cover under here you
can unscrew that cover connect all the wiring and then when I get it all hooked
up to my battery there's an adjustment for how far you want it open and when
you want to stop when it closes so let me do a little more when I get this open
I'll be sure to show you that's the part that the mounting it's kind of you know
easy self-explanatory
if you have the knowledge and tools to get this far you know that's that's not
so difficult the next part it's not very clear in the
directions so I'm going to open it up and just have a look-see and and maybe
when you look at it firsthand maybe it'll be a little more self explanatory
so here we go contact
hell through the year I saved myself a whole bunch of calories and calories are
precious
good enough I'm happy all right let me shut you off and take you over there and
show you how I wired this oh not complicated the battery the battery wire
right there plugs right into this the solar panel it's self-explanatory it
says solar in right here there is no color code so it doesn't matter whether
black or red goes to the left or the right these two buttons here set the it
recognizes your remote this button sets the closed limit this button sets how
long you want it to stay open before it closes automatically this button it's
actually not a button that's you have to put a screwdriver in there and adjust it
that little slot and right now I have it adjusted to its least setting I think
it's 30 seconds and this if it hits something like a person or a car it
stops and reverses and I have it set to its maximum setting because I want it to
hold it tight up against my up against that so the wind so it doesn't vibrate
and it doesn't blow around and plus I have two stops that the gate rests on so
now I'll put the whoops put the cover back on and flip this back over and
we're done then I'm going to route my wires neatly and where they won't get
pinched or anything there's my transmitter there's my solar
panel it actually was a very easy job it took me a couple hours and now I got a
pack up and go to my friends house in Texas because uh her electricity is out
in part of her house and that's the part of her house that her mom stays in and
she has a an electric chair that she gets in and out of an electric bed that
she sleeps in so and her mom all she has is TV so I'm
going to get over there and see if I can't fix it so maybe this will help
some people I've been accused of having spoiled chickens
oil chickens No
ladies the masseuse called and she's running a little behind schedule so she
won't be able to make it till about noon sorry about that
and I'm drawing your water for your baths
see you
I just had a bowel movement