SPACE/N

About the SPACE/N

Start with the door, because that decides everything else. A sectional door is made of horizontal panels hinged together that run up a pair of tracks and fold back flat under the ceiling. A counterweight door is a single rigid panel that tilts out and up, balanced by weights or springs at the sides. The SPACE/N drives both of those.

It does not drive a roller door. If your door rolls up into a drum above the opening rather than travelling back along the ceiling, this is the wrong opener and no accessory changes that. Roller doors are the most common garage door in Sydney, so this is worth thirty seconds of looking before you go any further. Ring us on 1300 736 683 and we will put you on the right thing instead.

The second qualifier is area rather than weight. Sixteen square metres is the published limit, so multiply the width of the door opening by its height. A single garage door around 2.4 metres wide and 2.1 metres high comes to roughly 5 square metres. A double at 4.8 metres wide is close to 10. Both sit comfortably inside the limit, and a door that does not is a conversation to have with us rather than a reason to order and hope.

The third is how often the door will be used. DEA rates this version at 20 cycles an hour and 60 in a full day, which is a domestic figure and a generous one for a household. A shared basement door on a block of units will exceed that before lunchtime. That is not a fault, it is a different class of machine, and our commercial and strata technicians are on 1300 655 600 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to specify one.

Inside the housing is a 24 volt motor with two channel encoder technology, which is how the unit knows exactly where the door is at every moment rather than inferring it from running time. That position tracking is what lets it slow down at each end instead of arriving at speed, and it is what lets it recognise an obstruction and stop. Maximum thrust is 600 newtons.

The control board is DEA's NET724EVO, with EASY and PRO menus so a straightforward installation can be set up quickly while an awkward one can still be adjusted properly. Its EVO TRACK force tracking follows the door's own force curve rather than holding one fixed threshold, which matters on a door that is stiffer in winter than it is in February. The radio receiver is built into the board and holds up to 200 transmitters, which is far more than a house will ever need and useful on a shared driveway.

What arrives is the operator with its control board, one GTX4 remote and one GTX-WALL wall transmitter. The GTX4 is a four channel 433 MHz handset and DEA supports three coding methods on it, being rolling code, dip switch and DEA's own D.A.R.T. coding. Allgate sells that as one new package and does not break the accessories or the individual spare parts out as separate lines, so this listing is the whole of what we supply for the SPACE/N.

Now the rail, and please read this part twice. It is not in the carton. Article 636130 is the operator head on its own, and the thing it pulls the door along is a steel track with a belt that DEA sells as a separate item in two lengths. AB16 gives 2668 mm of useful travel and AB20 gives 3468 mm. The right length is decided by the height of your door, the two are not interchangeable, and a rail from another brand of opener will not do the job either.

That makes this listing most useful to two people. One is replacing a failed DEA operator where the rail on the ceiling is sound and only the head needs changing. The other already has the rail on order or on hand. If you are the first of those, ring us on 1300 736 683 with the code off your old unit before you buy, because we would rather check your existing rail suits this head than have you find out from a ladder.

A few practical things. It runs from an ordinary 230 to 240 volt power point, so there needs to be one within reach of the ceiling mount. The protection rating is IP20, meaning it is an indoor unit and belongs inside the garage rather than under an eave. It is rated from minus 20 up to 50 degrees Celsius, which covers anything a Sydney garage will do to it. A courtesy light is built into the housing and comes on with the door, which on a night arrival is the difference between finding the step and not.

The belt is the part worth understanding last, because it is the part you will hear. It is reinforced with iron filaments through its length, which is what keeps a belt from stretching and going noisy after a few years, and the whole unit is rated under 70 decibels. If there is a bedroom directly above the garage, that number is the reason to look at a belt driven opener rather than a chain, and it is the thing people tell us they noticed first after the old one came down.

Product details

Brand

DEA

Type

Genuine part

Category

Garage door openers

Delivery, returns and fitting

Shipping costs and delivery times are shown beside the Add to cart button above. Unused parts can be returned by post within 30 days of purchase for a full refund, with return postage paid by you. Your rights under the Australian Consumer Law apply on top of that, so if the part you receive turns out not to suit your opener, call us before you program it and we will work out what does. Our full terms of sale are set out on the Allgate terms and conditions page.

Most customers fit and code a new part themselves in a few minutes using the instructions supplied. If you would rather have it done, an Allgate technician can program and test it on site anywhere we work, which is every suburb listed on the Sydney service areas page.

Not sure the SPACE/N is the right part?

Buying the wrong remote is the most common mistake we see, and it is almost always avoidable with one photograph. Send a clear shot of the front and the back of your existing unit, plus one of the motor if you can reach it safely, to service@allgate.com.au and our team will tell you exactly which part suits your opener. If you would rather talk it through, our domestic line is 1300 736 683, Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm. Commercial and strata customers can reach a technician on 1300 655 600 at any hour, on any day.

You can also search the catalogue by the model number printed on your existing handset, which is the fastest way to find the match yourself.