Question on rolling gate across driveway

[3rdShot]

We have a rolling gate across our driveway, enclosing the back yard once you drive in. My lovely wife has backed into it on several occasions, being impatient and not waiting for it to fully open. I guess the last time, a weld broke between sections of the track on the ground that the gate rolls on, and may have thrown the stop switch off sync...I re-aligned and fixed the track sections, but the gate rolls closed further than it used to, and the end of the chain bracket is now jamming into the nylon/plastic roller guide in the motor houseing, starting to scar up that roller.

Is there supposed to be some kind of "stop" on the gate chain, or is there a length-of-run-time adjustment on the motor somewhere that I need to correct to make the gate stop at a point 9 or 10 inches shorter than it is doing now?

Once it stopped closed, I have pushed it back to where it should be, but then in the next open/close cycle, it closes too far again, and the end of the chain bracket hits the roller guide again.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dave

[Chuey]

there might be a limit switch you need to adjust.

[Chuey]

or a knob like a garage door opener you need to adjust

[Snakelover]

Any ideas?

Yeah. Make your wife fix it. That should help increase her patience. Just kidding.

[3rdShot]

Yeah. Make your wife fix it. That should help increase her patience. Just kidding.

We've been married almost 8 wonderful years.

Trust me when I say, you can't fix her driving, or patience level!

["DOC"]

There SHOULD be limit switches inside the control box you can adjust.

[Nova]

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dave

Make her park outside the yard and walk in

[cosmiccowboy]

There should be an end switch. Look for a protrusion on the gate that trips a mechanical switch when the gate is almost where it should stop.

[alec73065]

The rolling gates we have at work have a crank that goes in a hole on the side and you adjust the gate stopping point once it is closed by cranking it one way or the other. We have no limit switches on ours it is an encoder on the drive unit. I am not sure of the brand. Google your unit type , should find directions on how to adjust.

[Green Arrow]

What type of gate opener do you have?
Some have limit switches others learn there limits.

[3rdShot]

It's an Eagle model rolling opener, couldn't find any adjusting mechanisms or stop links on the chain, ended up unclipping the end of the chain from the gate bracket, letting the motor run in the closing-the-gate direction until it stopped, got the gate in the closed position I wanted, then rethreaded the chain through the pulleys and over the motor gear, then re-attached it to the bracket on the gate.

Of course in that process I broke the quick release link at the end of the chain and had to wire the next link to the gate bracket, but now it closes where I want it to, and seems to run fine.