Snickers & Twix change everything.
In this episode segment of The Fence Podcast, Brian T. Frederiksen visits the DoorKing booth and talks with Justin about a new operator design generating interest in the market. Brian notes the booth’s attention to detail, including clear, easy-to-read labeling and a concealed board layout. Justin explains that the display unit shown requires safety devices to operate, though the production version is still being finalized. He also clarifies that the side-mounted component is only for the display setup and not part of the standard product. Justin then highlights the operator’s main features: a DC brushless motor, an encapsulated board, an LCD interface for programming, and a USB function that stores the operator’s setup. That USB capability allows installers to transfer settings between multiple units and quickly restore programming if a board fails, such as after a lightning strike. Brian reflects on DoorKing’s long-standing influence in the industry and its U.S.-based manufacturing in Inglewood, emphasizing the company’s commitment to producing its own circuit boards. The segment closes with Justin directing listeners to DoorKing’s website and nationwide two-day training seminars for more information.
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(682 words)All right, we're over here with Justin over at the Doorork King booth. And you got some really cool stuff over here. It looks like we got some Snickers, we got Twix, some Butter Fingers. I mean, you guys got everything. Oh, wait. Let's go back to the operators here, though, for a minute. So, this is what everybody was waiting for on the market pretty soon. But, um, this is pretty unique, your uh design. I like that you uh you went and you got all the the board and everything concealed behind there with easy to read. You always always have easy to read displays um especially contacts and stuff where you hook everything up. So, you guys are just always got that figured out. But is this like a That looks almost like an exit wand or something on the side of it. What is this thing on the side? Oh, this is uh cuz it requires a safety to run and so it's it's Oh, for the display. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So, it doesn't come with that. No. No, it does not. It does not. We don't we want we want to kind of talk that. But, you know, there's no space for photo eyes here. So, we're kind of making it move. But, it does require the safeties to move. Tell us a little bit about it. Yeah. So, um, it's going to be a DC brushless. The board's encapsulated. There's programming LCD here where you can walk through, but then there's the special thing is this USB right here. It's going to tell it what operator it is and how that setup is. So, you could transfer this over to another operator and not have to do the same with every operator if you've got multiples on that site. Now, with uh this board, let's say in the future there's a lightning strike or whatever, the board burns, you have to replace the board. When you come back and plug in that USB, everything's going to download. So, you're not having to reprogram the loops, the settings, limits, or anything because it's taken whatever setting you had before, and it's going to download it onto the new board. Yeah. So, um, what I like about Door King is, I mean, even myself, I think, uh, I grew up putting operators in. And, uh, I mean, if I, if I had a dollar for every, uh, SL3000 and Doring 1812 I installed, it's probably still out there, right? You know, yeah, it's probably still out there. You guys have pioneered some of this stuff, especially uh, when it comes in the American market down here. Um, and a lot of your stuff, and not a lot, almost all of it's made here in the US over uh, in Englewood. Yes, in Englewood. We do everything down to the circuit boards we make ourselves. And I've been fortunate enough to come do a tour. you guys uh walked me around in there and it is impressive. So, anybody's watching this, go back and uh take a look at that video cuz that was quite extensive uh tour of inside of there. Yeah. Um hey, you know what, Justin, thanks for showing us all this stuff. How can they find out more information on this? Um if they want to look it up, just go to our website and uh we're we've got uh seminars going out throughout the country. It's two-day seminars. Yeah. So, keep an eye out for the ones coming to your town. Just go to doorking.com and then click on company and then look at training and you'll have a full schedule of everything throughout the country. And I've been to some of your trainings. You guys know what you're doing on that. All right, there you go. You have it everybody. Go to doorork king.com and check it out. Pretty much get to any any any expo that's going on in our industry. You guys are there supporting it. We appreciate that. Thanks, Brain.
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