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Originally posted by Hell Puppy@Sep 7 2003, 09:46 PM
Problem with the automated gates, as you said, is the big iron jobbies take a bit of time to open and close. Best solution I've seen to that is to double them up. Use the iron gate for security, but right in front of it you put one of the little simple wood arm gates as an anti-piggy-back gate.
When your card is scanned, both gates open. As soon as your car clears the wooden gate, it comes down swiftly and immediately to prevent piggy backing. The iron gate can then take as much time as it needs to shut.
It can still be defeated by someone getting right on your ass to make the sensor think it's one vehicle, but that makes it pretty obvious that someone is trying to bypass the card scan.
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Oooh - I like this idea. I don't think I've ever seen it though - anywhere I can take a look at it (and take some pictures)? I clocked it when we came in today and 5+ cars could have come in behind me.
Ours are just a small metal bar that comes down so it's not time that it takes them TO open and close, it's the damn delay on them. I'm sure some slowpoke got nailed ONCE so they made the delay so long. They were being broken until they put a camera up there and nailed one of the residents who was too lazy to get a passcard.
There was a mention once about the iron gates that open and close sideways, but I'm not sure what happened to the proposal. I REALLY want someone's car to be damaged while they're sneaking in.
