Help with electric gate wiring
My elderly neighbors bought a small piece of rural property that has an electric gate. The gate has electric keypad boxes, as well as remote controls. The gate was working fine for the first few weeks but just stopped working. The remotes have new batteries and the key pads all beep and flash green when you enter the code, so they aren't the problem. When we opened up the battery box and THIS is what we found. I know very little about electroonics other than being able to chage a light fixture or ceiling fan, so I have NO idea what I'm looking at with this jumbled mess. I did pull the battery (which, when tested is still good, though it was dead). After fully charging the battery, I reinstalled, but the gate still won't work. There are 2 red lights on when we open up the battery box. One is next to a fuse looking thing that says "master close". There's also a battery charge maintaner that has a green light on next to the "power on" label, but a red light next to is on next to the the "charger" label. Any suggestions you might have on how to troubleshoot/repair would be welcome! Fee;l free to give instructions like you're talking to a highly competent 6th grader. :) The property is over an hr from any cities and my poor neighbors don't want to spend the extra money to hire an electrician to make the trip all the way out there, if there's a way we can fix this ourselves. Thanks in advance! submitted by /u/Wastingtime1492 [link] [comments]
| | My elderly neighbors bought a small piece of rural property that has an electric gate. The gate has electric keypad boxes, as well as remote controls. The gate was working fine for the first few weeks but just stopped working. The remotes have new batteries and the key pads all beep and flash green when you enter the code, so they aren't the problem. When we opened up the battery box and THIS is what we found. I know very little about electroonics other than being able to chage a light fixture or ceiling fan, so I have NO idea what I'm looking at with this jumbled mess. I did pull the battery (which, when tested is still good, though it was dead). After fully charging the battery, I reinstalled, but the gate still won't work. There are 2 red lights on when we open up the battery box. One is next to a fuse looking thing that says "master close". There's also a battery charge maintaner that has a green light on next to the "power on" label, but a red light next to is on next to the the "charger" label. Any suggestions you might have on how to troubleshoot/repair would be welcome! Fee;l free to give instructions like you're talking to a highly competent 6th grader. :) The property is over an hr from any cities and my poor neighbors don't want to spend the extra money to hire an electrician to make the trip all the way out there, if there's a way we can fix this ourselves. Thanks in advance! [link] [comments] |
