Special Features of LiftMaster Garage Door Openers

One of the most important aspects of the Liftmaster openers is safety. In this respect, all residential garage door opener models are equipped with The Protector System, which is a Chamberlain trade mark, and which consists of projecting an invisible light beam across the opening of the garage door. If the beam is interrupted, it sends the stop command to the opener, and it reverses the movement, thus preventing children or pets to get caught by the door.
Quality is another concern of LiftMaster. We can say that Chamberlain revolutionized the garage door openers industry, by innovations such as the polyurethane drive belt molded with flexible steel cords, or the Motor Vibration Isolation System which makes the door operate smoothly.
Security is key for LiftMaster garage door openers. They all have a system which locks the door in place when closed, plus a rolling code technology which is proprietary of Chamberlain’s. The Fingerprint Keyless Entry allows access to only ten people whose fingerprints are scanned and memorized by the system. This is one step further on the road to convenience in home and garage appliances. Why open the garage door manually, when you can get these remote control openers to do it for you? Why step out of your car when you can only push a button and see the garage door moving?

These are only a few characteristics which make the LiftMaster garage door openers the choice of smart garage owners. Personally, I like Chamberlain products and most of all, LiftMaster. Depending on the drive system, Liftmaster garage door openers can be :

• with direct drive: model no 3800
• with chain drive: models no 3595, 3575, 3265, 3255, 3245, 1355 and 1345
• with belt drive: models no 3850, 3585, 3280
• with screw drive: model no 3130 and 3240

While the Elite and Premuim Series of Liftmaster garage door openers come with lifetime motor warranty, there are a few openers belonging into Chamberlain’s Contractor Series of openers, which have this warranty for the motor limited to either 4 or 2 years.

If you’ve just got your new garage built, chances are that you had difficult time deciding which was the right garage door opener for your situation. Others may say that an opener is just an opener, and as long as it does its job, which is to open and to shut the garage door, it cannot be wrong. However, going deeper in details, you’ll see how many types of garage door openers are there, thus making your choice difficult.

First of all, there are many brands. My father has a Stanley garage door opener operated by remote, and he is satisfied with it. In my opinion, Stanley or not Stanley, Genie or Liftmaster, or Chamberlain, a garage opener needs to have certain qualities and features as a remote control, a service team ready to install it and to help me with troubleshooting in maintenance and operation, plus an affordable price and an extended guarantee. Is Stanley offering all these? Probably they do, but I think others may do it as well. You definitely need to do some research prior to buying anything.

Garage Door Openers Types

There are three different types of door openers:

1. chain driven opener
2. belt driven
3. screw drive openers

Each of them fits a different purpose, and they are chosen depending on the door’s weight or size. A chain driven garage door opener is appropriate for heavy doors, like the wooden garage doors, which are massive, solid, and usually weigh quite a lot more that other doors made of composite materials or aluminum. So, wooden doors are a match here. Chain drives are driven by a powerful motor, which gives them resistance to bad weather conditions, but which makes them a bit noisy.

Screw drive openers come as the most common option for usual garage doors. They typically work buy having a lifting mechanism that moves along a threaded steel rod. These are quite powerful and come in variety of different horse power motors.

Last but not least, the belt driven model of garage door opener has the great quality of being extremely silent. If your garage is neighboring a bedroom, you may want to choose it for your door. The belts do have a tendency to wear out a little fast then the other types of models. Belt driven openers typically don’t have the power that the others have either.

These are the basics when choosing a garage door opener that will suit the needs of your garage.

For more info, you can check out Tyler Casselman’s site Garage Door Openers Guide

Garage door openers need an engine to make them operate the door. You don’t have to think in big terms here. No, you should not need a V8 engine to run the garage door. The automatic garage door openers are so convenient and they are standard in most garages today. No rain or snow when you get out of your car to open the garage door. Actually you don’t get out of all, you just sit in your car and press a button on the remote control.

There are some issues to be aware of concerning the safety and security. For example for young children, some old garage doors can pose a risk. Even if you don’t have any children living with you, you need to concern yourself with any neighbor kids, even housebreakers! that you could be held liable for if an accident were to occur. The newer models of overhead roll up garage doors feature pinch resistant or anti pinch panels. This feature makes the door safe and fingers will not get injured if stuck in the gap between panels while the door is closing.

When you have decided which type and make of your garage door that suits you, the next step is to choose a garage door opener. You will need a powerful opener if the door is heavy. An opener with at least 3/4 horsepower may be your best option. Also choose a model that uses heavy-duty, industrial-strength chains that will guarantee you years of dependable operation. If your door is of normal weight you can go for a less powerful
opener.

Most garage door openers make noises and so does the door itself although some models are specifically designed to be quiet. If you want a more quiet system you need openers with very quiet belt openers. The models have flexible rubber belts that mute vibrations and eliminate the metal-to-metal contact of other chain- or screw-based models. Also more powerful systems usually work easier, smoother and are more silent.

For safety reasons an electronic eye at the base of the door automatically cause the opener to reverses during the close cycle if an object or person breaks the beam. Usually the systems work even when the door sense an excessive load on the closing mechanism, which will automatically reverse the closing or opening.

Some models, actually a lot of them, claim to be virtually maintenance-free. It is usually self-lubricating systems with chains that always run smoothly and make as little noise as possible. More expensive models have a kind of isolation of the motor which gives a quiet and powerful operation.