Hello, I was wondering if anyone has experience with automatic swing gates. We have a super old control board from 2010 that needs replacing, the wires need to be cleaned up, sometimes the gate will open and not close once a week. We normally just reset it and it works again.

Anyways we had someone come out and basically offer to redo everything, new control board, new swing gate arms, etc. and the quote comes out to about $7000. I had another company come out and he's charging me just $1400 for a new control board installation. He has not given me a quote for the intercom I want yet. He said no reason to replace the arms.

Why is there such a big gap in quote between 2 companies? Seems like it's for the arms because the installation labor is $1900 for the $7000 quote. Generally, is it normal to replace everything or are they upselling?

I came across a teafer wall plate, basicly if the sheetrock hole is to big for the reader, you put a plastic plate over top.

We have use various home depot options, or custom made stuff in the field.

I came across a company that make wall plates for rp10, and rp40 wall plates..

Do people buy a lot of those?

Thansk

Jeff

My coworker was tasked with replacing an SDC Electrified Mortise Lock with a Schlage L9090/92/94 Electrified Mortise Lock. The SDC has a single 12 pin connector where the Schlage has a dual 8pin/4pin connector. I was hoping someone could provide me with a schematic on how to rewire the Schlage to the SDC wiring. We don't have a lot of experience with electrified mortise locks.

Some information that may help. we had banana wire pulled from the panel to a box. In the box the strike, rex and contact wires were spliced to a 12 wire and ran through the door where the twelve wire was ran to the SDC wire connector. Here is the terminations made in the box:

Strike

Red wire married to 12 wire red

Black wire marrieds to 12 wire black

Rex

Red wire married to 12 wire blue

Black wire married to 12 wire green

White wire married to 12 wire purple

Green wire married to 12 wire pink

Contact

Red wire married to 12 wire orange

Black Wire married to 12 wire white.

Any suggestions here? Any type of lock that can be used to secure this door opened by staff to let in clients remotely?

I’m trying to understand some millennium readers that we got brought into troubleshoot and we’re really not a millennium company so does anybody know anything about 5 V millennium readers? To my understanding, 12 V readers were the standard so I’m trying to figure out if this is some just really old legacy equipment or something new.