BMGi Solar and Electric Single Gate Opener User Guide

BMGi Solar and Electric Single Gate Opener

Product Information

The Wiring Guide provides instructions for the installation of a single gate opener for both Solar and Electric Systems. The product includes a control box, motor wires, a transformer, and an optional backup battery. The package also includes accessory wiring for standard push buttons, key push buttons, and 7-channel long-range receiver wiring. The green connector blocks on the main control board can be removed to help with wiring in cables. The solar system includes a regulator with a Z bracket and battery indicator lights. The product comes with a warranty, and failure to follow the instructions may void the warranty.

Product Usage Instructions: Single Solar Wiring

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. It is highly recommended to silicone around these screws to prevent any water seeping into the control box and also prevent insect infestation. Do not drill holes above the computer 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.

Step 3: Connect Motor Wires
Connect the Motor cables to MOTOR2 (MAIN) onto the EGA board. Ensure no motor wires are visible once screwed into the terminals to prevent any short- circuiting from them touching. In the conduit, there should also be one 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. Gate Direction Pull to open: Blue (left) – Red (right). Gate Direction Push to open: Red (left) – Blue (right).

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 cables 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 that red is to + (positive) and black is to – (negative). Do NOT connect the cable from the solar panel yet.

Step 7: Secure the 12 Volt Battery
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 connected to the red terminal and the black cable to the black terminal. Caution: Observe Polarity. Wrongly installed polarity will damage the board.

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

Single Solar Wiring

Solar Gate Opener Wiring

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.

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 appearance from the below photos

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

Step 5 Mounting the Regulator

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 connected 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 vertical – panel must face FULL NORTH

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

IMPORTANT:
At this point with your actuator arm 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’

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:

1. Ensure that the mounting points on the control box are properly sealed to prevent water and insects from getting in.
2. All cabling must go through the entry hole located at the bottom of the control box.
3. Silicone off the conduit hole to prevent insects from getting into the control box via the wire conduits.
4. For solar, we highly recommend charging your battery every 6 – 12 months for 2 hours only on a 12v battery charger to prolong the life of your battery.
5. Additional accessories connected to BMG’s swing motors may reduce the battery’s performance e.g battery life and/or battery standby capacity during unfavorable conditions.
6. We recommend every 6-12 months 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 order.

Single Electric Wiring

Electric Gate Opener Wiring

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 from seeping into the control box and also prevent 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 the battery back if required. We recommend a 12v 7ah battery 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 blocks on the main control board can be removed to help with wiring in cables

Step 2 Connect Motor Wires
Connect the Motor cables to MOTOR2 (MAIN) onto 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 the control board, this connector block can be removed to wire cables in) as shown in the photo below and turn on at the powerpoint.
The 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 powerpoint

IMPORTANT:
At this point with your actuator arm connected and the transformer powering the control board, your next step will be running the “Auto Travel Function” which you will find details on in your main Installation & User Manual on page 38

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

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

Power up the board with the backup battery
Connect the battery cables from the EGA control board to the 12v backup battery. Ensure that the red cable is connected to the red terminal and the black cable to the black terminal

Caution: Observe Polarity. Wrongly installed polarity will damage the board 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.

Attaching your control box lid using the screws 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:

1. Ensure that the mounting points on the control box are properly sealed to prevent water and insects from getting in.
2. Silicone off the conduit hole to prevent insects from getting into the control box via the wire conduits.
3. 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 battery.
4. Additional accessories connected to BMG’s swing motors may reduce the batteries performance e.g battery life and/or battery standby capacity during unfavorable conditions.
5. 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 order.

WIRING FOR STANDARD PUSH BUTTON

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

WIRING FOR KEY PUSH BUTTON

Please note that the colored cables in our above images are for examples only and may not match the colored 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 colored 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 the cable through the hole to secure it or securing the 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 (silicone) all the way around the back housing to prevent any water or insects from entering in through your screws. Also when you drill the hole for your cabling we recommend to silicone up that entry point. We recommend every 6-12 months 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.

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

WIRING FOR 7 CHANNEL LONG RANGE RECEIVER

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

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