Genie Garage Door Openers

Genie offers a wide variety of excellent garage door openers. With over 80 years of experience, Genie continues to rise above the competition producing top of the line equipment. Genies garage door openers offer advance security and technological features. The Safe T-Beam infrared attribute senses objects in the garage doors path and stops to prevent objects from being crushed.

If you are looking for the horse power to lift the heaviest of garage doors Genies ½ hp Screw Drive opener with direct lift is perfect. Made to require very low maintenance, there are no gears or chains to wear down, producing longer equipment life. The garage door opener is delivered standard with a 15-year motor warranty and a 3-years parts warranty. The Screw Drive is far superior to a chain drive with less noise to boot. The Genie system is made to operate with fewer parts so less wear and tear to worry about.

Genie’s Excelerator garage door system offers a system with faster opening speeds. This is the quietest Genie product available, ideal for garages near bedrooms. The system is installed with two 60 watt bulbs that will give you extreme illumination for navigating your way through the garage at night. No matter what weather conditions your home experiences the Excelerator can perform. Made to work even in an extreme temperature of -25 F.

Genie offers many more garage door openers to fit your needs. Since 1964, Genie has presented a wide variety of superior products including, carriages, gears, residential garage door transmitters and more.

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I recently purchased a new Genie garage door opener at my local home improvement center. The product that I bought was a one half horsepower unit that came with two remote controls, a button to hide somewhere, and a keypad that will also open the door.

I really like having the multiple options available to open the door. My garage door is an eight foot by seven foot door and, being a fairly handy individual, I decided to tackle the installation myself.

I had read online where most problems with these units had to do with the people who came to install them. This made my decision to do it myself even easier. After unpacking the Genie I was greeted with a very user friendly manual that laid out all of the steps necessary to get the opener up and running in a matter of a couple of hours.

Oftentimes with projects I’ll guess that they may take me a couple of hours, but then run into a number of different problems and they take me all day long. I started installing the Genie at two o’clock on a Saturday afternoon and I had it in place and all wired together, ready to go, at four o’clock. The much anticipated first try had come, so I plugged in the Genie, pushed the button on the wireless remote, and the door went right up.

The half horsepower motor had plenty of power to move the door and its quiet movement was nice as well. I have now had the Genie for over a month and have had nothing but a good experience. The keypad works as advertised and the remote units have a nice range so that the door is all the way up by the time I get there.

I’m also a fan of the three year warranty I am guaranteed with the new unit. All in all I would say that the purchase and installation of my Genie garage door opener was a positive experience.

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My recent purchase of a Genie garage door opener was equipped with a wireless Intellicode pad that I could use to open the door without the use of the remote controls. Since this pad was a wireless unit the installation of it was extremely simple.

I just took the mount for the pad and screwed it into the side of the jamb outside of my garage door. This pad is small and fits nicely in the area I placed it. Its inconspicuous, but still noticeable.

After installing the pad I then had to program it. The unit came with a very informative set of directions that made both the installation and programming simple to understand and execute.

I only have one garage door so I only needed to set one code for the wireless transmitter using the Basic Programming instructions. To do this I had to open the cover all the way and wait for the indicator to blink once and then go blank. I then had to type in the numbers three, five, and seven, and press the PROG. button.

The indicator light then started blinking one time every second. Following the instructions included with the Genie I then entered my own personal PIN number to control the door. The PIN could consist of as many as eight digits. After entering the number I then pressed the PROG button again and the indicator light started blinking at a rate of twice per second.

At this stage the directions indicated that I needed to close the cover and program the Genie garage door opener itself. The Learn code button on my garage door opener was located on the rear panel of the unit and was simple and easy to find.

I pressed the learn code button and the learn code LED began to flash. Following the directions I then entered the PIN number I had used on the keypad and pressed the SEND button four times. My garage door went up just like it was supposed to.

The installation of this keypad had taken me less than ten minutes from the time I got it out of the box to the moment I had it working. The directions were clear and concise and I would recommend the product to anyone.

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When I think of some of the technologies that make my life better, my Genie Garage Door Remote is one of the first to come to my mind. This product does not promote world peace or lower my taxes. But, it is one of the things that makes my day better. I will admit that I take my Genie garage door remote for granted for long periods of time. I push the button at least twice every day, and some days more. Honestly, I never think about how great a timesaver it is – until something goes wrong and I don’t have it!

After many years of use, the batteries went dead in my Genie garage door opener last week. I had to get out of my car and walk around and through the house to push the button on the inside of the garage to get the door open. It was 103 degrees that day and so humid I began to sweat the moment I opened the car door! I did not know that it was only the batteries at the time, I worried that my grage door opener was broken and wondered how many days it would be until a repairman could get there.

Thankfully, the instructions reminded me to check the batteries and I was able to put fresh ones in that day. The Genie Garage Door Remote is like so many technological items we have grown to depend on daily. It is no big deal until it is gone and then you say “Thank Heaven for my Genie Garage Door Remote!”

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A garage is an important part of any home, especially for households with more than one car and no on-street parking. However, there was a time when a driver or passenger had to exit the car and open the door by hand. This was a task best suited to the young and strong, since most garage doors used to be heavy wood. The garage door opener changed everything. Known as a genie garage door opener, a simple push of a button triggers a motor that pulls open the garage door. You never need to leave your car, and when you enter the home simply push another button and the door is gently lowered.

The electric garage door opener was invented in 1926 by C. G. Johnson. However, the system still required exiting the vehicle to push a button mounted on the house. It was not until after World War II, when radio technology was perfected, that a device became available for remote access. The Genie appeared on the market shortly after. The first Genies used preset codes that the owner set by flipping switches on the remote and the home-bound motor. This provided 256 different combinations, which the manufacturer hoped would prevent crossover. People did not want their neighbors opening up their homes. However, the devices still experienced crossover with other radio technology as well as some security issues.

To compensate, the manufacturers limited the radio frequency range to between 300 and 400 megahertz. Furthermore, they created a special device inside the motor that changed the code used by the genie each time the device was used. This ensured a rotating code, significantly reducing the probability of unauthorized entry. Between 1950 and 2000, however, the use of radio technology exploded, and the genie market was forced to refine once again, this time limiting the frequency to only 315 megahertz.

Various laws and regulations sprang up in order to ensure public safety, since a garage door is a large moving object located within a home. All opener systems manufactured after 1982 are required to include a quick release lever, this is to allow the opening of the garage door in the event of a power failure. In 1993, a law was passed requiring all opener systems to include motion sensors to prevent the door from closing on any object stopped in the door frame.

Several different manufactures deal with these systems, ranging from high-end Craftsman systems that cost several hundred dollars, to lower-end Flash2Pass systems for only a hundred. The quality of these systems is more about durability than functionality, since the components experience a lot of wear and tear, a higher end system is always a better investment.

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