Buy Mighty Mule FM138 50-Feet Gate Opening Wand SensorMighty Mule FM138 50-Feet Gate Opening Wand Sensor Product Description:
- For use between 30 and 50-Feet from the gate
- Easy exit from property without having to push a button
- Gate opening sensors with 100-Feet and 150-Feet lengths also available
- Includes 50-Feet direct burial cable for installation
Product Description
Direct-burial Gate Opening Sensor wires directly to the Gate Opener Control Box and senses mass metal in motion. This unit is recommended for use on the inside of the property for handsfree exit by automobiles without having to push a button. Includes a 50ft. cable that should be trenched and placed next to your drive and buried no more than 12 inches deep and no closer than 30 feet from the gate. It will detect vehicles (cars, trucks, ATVs, motorcycles, etc.) as they cross over the sensor's 12ft. magnetic field, automatically opening the gate. Application: Gate sensor, Works With: GTO/Mighty Mule gate openers
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Quality Issues with all Mighty Mule products
By Bob K.
I have has a Mighty Mule 350 for over 3 years now. I welded all the connections to my gate and post because the hardware that comes with the units will loosen with use. My personal gate has had no problems. I had electricity to the site and use the transformer to keep the battery charged. I recommend as large of a deep cell battery you can find if your use solar to charge. I maintain 5 other community gates as a free service. All are in remote sites with no electrical power and thus use solar panels to charge the batteries. Two gates use Mighty Mules and 3 use a older more industrial arm style opener. All gate openers have problems especially when you have users that have a hard time opening their car door let as lone operating a key pad or remote. The problem with Mighty Mule is about a 1/3 of their products are defective out of the box and customer service is non-existent. I work full time and gate repair is in my valuable free time. I don't have the time or the patience to deal with a company that does not care about its customers. I thus buy spares and keep extras on hand. I have had one defective arm unit out of the box. Mother board issues; wouldn't operate the gate lock and couldn't adjust the close time potentiometer. Mighty Mule wanted me to box up the unit and pay for shipping to their site in Florida and then wait for return instead of shipping me a new unit and shipping the old unit back at their expense. We are talking broken right out of the box; I would never run a company like that. My most recent dealing is with a Gate Opening Wand Sensor...didn't work out of the box. I bought another brand from Gate Crafters and it worked fine. MM unit is now a door weight.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Works great! Very pleased.
By Jane L.
I installed this opener to my gate system that was not a Mighty Mule brand. I followed the instructions and trenched a section and ran the cable through a PVC pipe and up into the box. The installation instructions asked to wire it to both the battery and to the chip-board, but I was able to connect just to the chip board in an empty section specifically for a gate sensor. It worked right away and I've had it several months now with no problems. It is great!It's great for people to have a way out without pressing a key pad or using a remote to open the gate. I chose this gate opener because it didn't require putting it into the driveway pad.My gate is powered by solar power and a battery and it works together.Warning: keep in mind that your tractor or mower will set it off, so be careful, and it will not stop your gate from shutting on something.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.Defective product
By Margaret
Bought this product brand new. Upon attemting to install it on gate system it was found to be defective. It falsed intermittently. That is even when there was no moving metal in range of the sensor it would still trigger intermittently. Because it was beyond the 30 day return period Amazon would not take it back leaving me to try to get warranty with the manufacturer. I hope I have better luck with them then I've had with Amazon. Oh yeah, I acquired a gate mate CP-3 sensor (not from Amazon) instead of the Mighty Mule FM138 and it works perfectly.I wanted to add this to my post: I sent the sensor in to GTO for service. They returned it "no problem found". I checked it again and it had the same problem as when I sent it in. I give up. I guess I'm out $140 bucks. My advice is to stay away from this product and this company. The other sensor I mentioned earlier in my review continues to work flawlessly.
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