Re: Using garage door safety beams

["Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Les Blalock" <lesNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:25:52 -0700, "Crash Gordon"
> <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>I've always thought it kinda dumb they mount those beams so low. IMO it
>>should be mounted high enough that if you leave your car partially
>>sticking
>>out of the opened garage door (like when you back in to garage to empty
>>groceries from the trunk and your wife pushed the button to close the
>>freekin door without looking to see if the car is ALL the way in!  - twice
>>she did that) - if the beam was higher the door would not have closed on
>>her
>>car (twice...did I mention she did it twice?)
>
> I suppose the beam has to be very near the ground because that's where
> a small child would be and I think that's the purpose of having the
> beams.  I recall hearing of a couple of kids having their heads caught
> by the door and suffocating and I believe that's about the time the
> safety beams became standard equipment with automatic openers.
>
> Les
>


Perhpas, but most modern openers will auto reverse when they hit an
obstruction before they get to full travel.


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