Hardware Installation

The Atwater Place Condos. Probably don’t need to tell you what street this is on. One of several of the upscale condos on the Willamette River is S.W. Portland.

Some of the condo owners have expressed concern over the difficulty encountered in opening these doors with the heavy-duty closers designed to offset both the forced-air related air-differential, as well as the effect of the river’s stiff winds exacerbated by the canyon-like vortex’s created by these towering buildings.

Mike Casas of American Veterans Security works his magic to set-up the DoorKing 1837-080 Telephone Entry System to work in conjunction with the new LCN 9542 Handicap Door Operator we’ve been contracted to install.

Since the Dorma 9000 hidden vertical-rod exit devices are non-handed, we were able to switch out the panic-devices. The door to be opened by the new door operator was to be different than the door that had previously been designated as having the electrified version of the Dorma 9000. The change had to do with wheel-chair ease in moving from the access controls to the opened door. Our technician Brandon is shown above prepping the door for the Dorma ES105 power transfer hardware.

We bypassed the existing Rixson 27105S Floor Hidden Closer with a National Door Control 101 Retrofit Hinge Converter.
Eliminates the need and expense of replacing the closer with a dummy version.

Brandon finishes tweaking the installation of the new LCN 9542 Door Operator to the header-jamb, while technician David Castro mounts the exterior activation button near the DoorKing 1837-080 Telephone Entry System.

Our electricians go about running power supply lines through the storefront mull-posts down to the operator. Remember, you enlarge the photos by clicking on them if you can’t quite make out what you’re looking at.

Brandon & David putting on the finishing touches…

…and voila! The LCN 9542…the Lexus or BMW of the door operator world?

Access control married to handicap control.