BMGI E8 500 Solar and Electric Single Kit User Guide

: June 10, 2024
: BMGI

BMGI E8 500 Solar and Electric Single Kit User Guide

Step 1

Mounting the control box

Install the control box at a suitable location, no further than 1mtr from the master gate.
Use the pre-marked anchor points in the box to secure.
Highly recommend to silicone around these screws to prevent any water seeping into the control box and also preventing insect infestation.
Do not drill holes above the comput- er board as this will allow water in and damage the board.

Step 2

Prepare Regulator on Z Bracket

Prepare the regulator by mounting the Z Bracket at the screw hole located near the battery indicator lights with the bolt and nut provided.
Note: regulators may differ slighty in apperance to below photos

Single Solar

Step 3

Connect Motor Wires

Connect the Motor cables to MOTOR2 (MAIN) on to the EGA board
Ensure no motor wires are visible once screwed into the terminals to prevent any short circuiting from them touching.
Note: In the conduit, you should also have 1 wire to the solar panel ready. If the hard wired push button or keypad is to be connected, this wire should also be available

Step 4

Mounting the Z Bracket

Mount 1 Z Bracket onto the ledge in the control panel box as shown

Step 5

Mounting the Regulator

Mount the regulator onto the second ledge in the control box as shown using the second Z bracket.

Step 6

**Connecting the regulator cables**

**** Connect the red and black cable from the EGA control board to the battery terminals of the regulator (you may need to remove these cables from the plastic connector)
Making sure:
red is to + (positive) black is to – (negative)

Do NOT connect the cable from the solar panel yet

Step 7

Secure the 12 volt battery with the large Z bracket and screws provided
Caution: Do not drop the battery

Step 8

Power up the EGA control board

Connect the battery cables from the EGA control board to the 12v battery.
Ensure that the red cable is con- nected to the red terminal and the black cable to the black terminal
Caution: Observe Polarity. Wrongly installed polarity will damage the board

Step 9.

**Connect the positive and negative cable from the solar panel to the solar regulator terminals as shown in the photo below
** Depending on your colour of your solar panel cables:
(red + | brown + | black – | blue -)

Caution:

Observe Polarity.
Wrongly installed polarity will damage the regulator

Best Solar Panel Angle for all year round

Brisbane 38 °
Sydney 45 °
Melbourne 50 °
Tasmania 56 °
Adelaide 48 °
Darwin 14 °
Perth 43 °
0 ° being flat and 90 ° being verti- cal – panel must face

FULL NORTH

View page 35 in your Installation & User Manual for the correct setup of your solar panel when installing

VERY IMPORTANT

At this point with your actuator arms connected and your battery and solar panel powering the control board, your next step will be running the “ Auto Travel Function ” which you will find details on in your Installation & User Manual on page 38

SCAN ME – to watch the video ‘teaching the travel function’

The auto travel fuction learns the setup of your gate. It’s very important that you do this function.
It involves using the INC and DEC buttons located on your control board.
Note: If you have performed the travel function
correctly, your gate will now slow down approx. 200mm before it’s full open and full closed positions.

Attaching your control box lid using the screws & washers provided

Check that the autogate system is operational before closing up the control box.
Auto close will not be active.
Please see main user manual and set auto close after installation is complete.

Recommendations & notes:

Ensure that the mounting points on the control box are properly sealed to prevent water and insects from getting in.
Silicone off the conduit hole to prevent insects from getting into the control box via the wire
For solar we highly recommend to charge your battery every 6 – 12 months for 2 hours only on a 12v battery charger to prolong the life of your
Additional accessories connected to BMG’s swing motors may reduce the batteries performance e.g battery life and/or battery standby capacity during unfavourable
We recommend every 6 – 12 months to do a thorough check over the complete unit and it’s internals to make sure there is no insect infestation and that everything is still in good working

Step 1

Mounting the control box

Install the control box at a suitable location, no further than 1mtr from the master gate.
Use the pre-marked anchor points in the box to secure.
Highly recommend to silicone around these screws to prevent any water seeping into the control box and also preventing insect infestation
Do not drill holes above the computer board as this will allow water in and damage the board.
The red and black battery cables from the main control board are for battery back if required. We recommend a 12v 7ah batttery for backup.
The red and black cable that runs to a plastic connector block is for solar only. Leave these wires connected to the plastic connector for the electric kit.

Tip : Green connector blocks and brown connector block on the main control board can be removed to help with wiring in cables

Step 11

Connect Motor Wires

Connect the Motor cables to MOTOR2 (MAIN) on to the EGA board
Ensure no motor wires are visible once screwed into the terminals to prevent any short circuiting from them touching.
Note: In the conduit, you should also have 1 wire to the transformer. If a hard wired push button or keypad is to be connected, this wire should also be available.

Step 3

Connect the cable from the transformer

Connect the 2 cables from the transformer DIRECT to the EGA control board terminal AC12-16V (located top right hand corner of control board, this connector block can be removed to wire cables in) as shown in the photo below and turn on at the power point. Transformer is not polarity sensitive.

Caution:

WARRANTY WILL BE VOID if installed incorrectly DO NOT connect 240volts direct to the gate opener

DO NOT hardwire the transformer to 240volt, it must plug into a 240volt power point

DO NOT cut the plug end of the transformer for any reason

VERY IMPORTANT

At this point with your actuator arms connected and your battery and solar panel powering the control board, your next step will be running the “ Auto Travel Function ” which you will find details on in your Installation & User Man- ual on page 38

SCAN ME – to watch the video ‘teaching the travel function

The auto travel fuction learns the setup of your gate. It’s very important that you do this function.
It involves using the INC and DEC buttons located on your control board.
Note: If you have performed the travel function
correctly, your gate will now slow down approx. 200mm before it’s full open and full closed positions.

Step 4 – Optional

Secure the 12v battery if supplied
Place the battery in the control box with the battery Z bracket supplied
Caution: Do not drop the battery

WIRING FOR STANDARD PUSH BUTTON

WIRING FOR KEY PUSH BUTTON

Please note that the coloured cables in our above images are for examples only and may not match the coloured cables that you will be using

When wiring up the push button, you will be able to use the key to lock and disable the button. Follow both coloured wiring instructions (pink and blue) as above.
When securing the blue and pink cable to the internal pins of the lock you can either secure by soldering the cable, threading cable through the hole to secure it or secure cable with a connector.
When you attach the push button unit to your post, even though the button housing is a sealed unit, we highly recommend sealing (silcone) all the way around the back housing to prevent any water or insects entering in through your screws. Also when you drill the hole for your cabling we recommend to silcone up that entry point.
We recommend every 6-12 months to do a thorough check over the push button and it’s internals to make sure there is no insect infestation and that everything is still in good working order.
Please be aware that failure to perform the recommendations above may void your warranty.