Digidoor: An Advanced Garage Door Automation Unit
Digidoor is a garage door automation unit manufactured by a South Africa based company, Hydro Doors. This high-end garage door automation system is designed for providing low maintenance, convenient, long-term and reliable security solution. The product is developed and produced locally. This electronic garage door operator has become extremely popular in today’s garage door industry due to its superior design and technological advancement. This unique door operating unit was introduced in 1984. It won the prestigious Shell Design Awards for ‘good product design’ in the year 1985.
Hydro Doors attained instant success with the launch of the innovative door operator. Digidoor helped the company to capture majority of shares of the door automation market. The Digidoor operator was redesigned in 1993 in order to benefit from increased production volumes stimulated by increased market demand. The modified garage door automation system relied on advanced technologies, press tooling and plastic injection molding. Using these advanced technologies helped the company to offer high quality products to the customers at reduced prices. The revamped door automation unit again won the Shell Design Awards for being ‘an example of good industrial design’ in 1994.
Some of the benefits of installing this high-end garage automation door unit are:
Easy installation
Straight forward assembly
Easy to maintain
Aluminum drive section
Noise free operation
Fast operation (takes only sixteen seconds to open or close standard door)
Comes along with safety beam socket
700 N operating force
Different types of doors, which can be automated with the help of Digidoor are:
Sectional overhead doors (single or double) made from steel or timber
Sectional overhead doors with special height (Uses 3.6m strut)
Tip-up doors made from steel or timber
Roll-up doors (single or double)
For successful functioning of Digidoor, a door should be in fine working condition. You should be able to close and open the door easily with one hand. It should run and sprung smoothly without binding or sticking. The tracks of the garage door should be clean and free of grime. Also, it should be secured properly with correct clearances. The worn out hinges, bushings and rollers should be replaced or repaired. All the unnecessary brackets, ropes, levers should be removed.
Remember that garage doors, door springs, pulleys, cables and brackets are under very high force. They can cause serious injury. These equipment should be operated with extreme care to avoid any kind of personal injury. Operate the garage door only when it is properly adjusted and free of obstructions. Keep children, elders and pets away from the moving door. Also, keep the transmitter control of the electronic system away from children. Examine the door and operator periodically for damage, wear and improper balance.