E8 500MM Stainless Steel Automatic Gate Opener for Gates with Wired Keypad, Safety IR Beams and Exit Push Button for Dual Swing Gate

This was an inexpensive solution for a gate that was quoted at $6,000 by a professional installer (and we already had the gate). We spent about another $450 on electrician and handyman to install it. I was able to set the control panel and we love it. We put down an invisible dog fence loop with battery operated rock in same space as electrical and our dogs are safe when gate opens and while it closes. We had an arm bend and could only think a teenager was riding the gate or a car hit it. Replaced it and it worked for awhile. Turns out our gate had pulled free from our brick wall and that needed repairing. Box wasn’t closed all the way and a slug may have dried itself on board. $90 and a new control board is on its way! Love this gate. Customer service very helpful.

E8's Dual Gate Opener System is the best replacement gate opener that I could find to replace my expensive Elite Miracle 1 system, which Chamberlain discontinued. E8 systems in the US differ somewhat from those sold in their Australian Homeland, so don't download the online manual for your install planning. I found the center stop they require impracticable in snowy environment, but easily built an alternative that's extremely reliable. They should but do not offer alternatives to that, as well as spell out how to use your existing wireless remotes, ground loops and motion sensors, and their Slidell tech support is not worth the phone call.E8 is built so well, powerful and easily replaced that despite the limitations noted, is by far the wisest best value choice that I could find on the market! I would definitely buy it again!!!

Worked well on my gate. You do need to be mechanically inclined to install this. It’s well designed.

Working good

THESE OPENERS NEARLY PUT ME OUT OF BUSINESS!!!!. After doing research, reading tons of reviews and settling on this unit, I began installing these openers as a business. The problem first began on my own gate, which was the first opener I installed. The gate began to malfunction after approximately 3 months of light use on a gate that was way lighter than the specs even called for. I triple checked all connections and even sent a picture of my wiring to the company so that they could verify my work was correct. They verified I had installed it correctly and sent a new board, stating that it was rare for this to ever happen. A few weeks later I started getting phone calls from countless customers having similar problems. I triple checked connections, battery and solar panels on all units...everything appeared operational. While inspecting the circuit boards I began to notice the same problem on all the units. They seemed to intermittently power down and power up even without being touched. As I began to look into return options on all the boards I began to realize the nightmare had just begun. The company wanted me to pay for return shipping and buy the $100 boards until I could send the old boards back so they could “verify” the boards were defective. When I received word back from the company that there was nothing wrong with the first board I sent but that they would return it “just this once” I realized this problem was bigger that I had first realized.Fast forward....we have switched to Apollo openers and eaten all of our profits on the installed for the first six months of business. Thankfully the nightmare is over for us and we didn’t piss too many people off by offering free installs on our Apollo’s.DONT MAKE THE MISTAKE WE DID....DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!!