Apollo Gate Repair in Grapevine, TX

An Apollo opener is a tubular actuator on each leaf, a 1550 for a single gate or a 1650 for a pair, with a 12 volt battery and board in a steel box near the hinge post. On a Grapevine property near the lake that box is the weak point. Damp air and wind-driven rain find their way in, low-voltage connections corrode, and the gate starts stopping a few feet into its travel or reversing after it closes. On older homes the issue is age: boards from earlier generations and actuators that have done a lot of work.

We measure battery voltage while the gate runs, then the panel or trickle charger, then every connection in the box. Corroded terminals are cleaned or replaced and the box sealed. After that we look at the actuator, its arm and the mounting brackets, which wear and fatigue, and at limit drift on the swing arms. A worn-out older actuator can often be swapped for a TITAN unit on the same mounting geometry. We work on Apollo gates near Nash Farm, in Silver Lake and along William D. Tate Ave.