RE: [mh] Determining Garage Doors status

[Yangmin S. <ya...@sh...>]

 If you have an old hard rive around, you can take it apart and get two
large rare earth magnets.  They should be able to get a couple inches of
gap.

-----Original Message-----
From: mis...@li...
[mailto:mis...@li...] On Behalf Of David H.
Lynch Jr.
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 12:52 PM
To: mis...@li...
Subject: Re: [mh] Determining Garage Doors status

Get a stronger magnet it will give you a bigger gap. Any stronger magnet
will do.
Try Edmonds Scientific, Ebay, the web. Toy Stores. hobby shops,  Small DC
mottors in your parts bin.
Those magnetic nail pickups at home depot or hardware stores.

Tom wrote:

> I have a few DS10A's monitoring my garage doors.  Unfortunately, the 
> garage doors didn't always line up and activate the magnet.
> The ones that comes with the DS10A seem to be able to handle about a 
> 3/4" gap.
>
> I now mount the magnet on the middle track that is directly connected 
> to the opener.  This assures the 2 magnets always line up, but the gap 
> at times still varies  more than the 3/4" that the magnets can handle.
>
> I'd like to simply swap the magnet for one with a wider gap.
>
> I'm drawing a blank, but where else would carry wide gap magnets 
> locally (specifically in Atlanta) or even a good mail order place.
> I went to Radio Shack to see if they have any with a wider gap, but 
> they have about the same as the standard magnet.
>
> thanks,
> tom
>
>
>
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