Re: Using garage door safety beams

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

yah...i know.
I've been thinkin of adding a second set of beams about a foot or so above
the low ones.


"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
|