<div dir="auto">I have measured the energy used by a garage door opener on more than one occasion. they draw a fair amount of power while operating, however. they don't draw power otherwise so the total energy is very low. I am wondering if a low cost non pure sine inverter to AC operated off the switches which would be low voltage would not serve the same low energy use and reliability of a DC garage door opener</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 31, 2018 2:39 AM, "John" <<a href="mailto:john@gosolar.co.nz">john@gosolar.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-NZ" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-3127713612340652971WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi all, any recommendations where to find 12 or 24v garage door openers. Can\u2019t remember this coming up on the list beforehand. It is just for a single car garage door. Don\u2019t want to use an inverter, usually better to go direct to a dc motor.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Once I have a suitable opener, I can design the rest of the system around it.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for any/all input. <wbr> John Veix, GoSolar Ltd, N.Z.<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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