[MBZ 500E]

A friend of mine just installed the Wayne Dalton Insulated Doors and the I-Drive opener and I have to say it is a nice setup.

The drive is EXTREMELY QUIET, very very fast on the way up, average on the way down and offers a host of features.

Features include

- sensorless system - instead the drive detects a opposite force and reverses the door. I tried it by placing my hand under the closing door, it required minimal effort to stop the door and reverse it.

- it also has a 10 second timer so you don't have to run out of the garage and slide under the door.....very cool feature. This combined with the sensorless system makes it easy to use the garage as the main point of entry if your house is designed that way.

- another feature is complete wireless system. This includes a keycode transmitter mounted outside, the lights which turn on when the opener is activated and the pushbutton opener mounted inside the garage.

- multiple lights can be mounted with this system since the lights are activated remotely.

- the drive has a lock feature which prevents the door from opening when the door is completely closed.

- the drive assembly sits above the door instead of above the car. So for those of us with space constraints it is much easier to install shelf units above the car and get full utilization of ceiling space.

I believe Lowes sells the entire system for $235/door plus installation. Only thing I don't know is the reliability.

I currently have an old Genie screw drive which I am not too impressed with, this is on my long term list of things to change.