Quite a long time ago, I purchased the original Ecogate with vibration sensors. ?Then I upgraded to the Greenbox 12. ?The gates changed to be more beefy and enclosed with time, and then the wire used changed. ?At one point, you had to run a wire from the Greenbox to the gate and a separate wire from the Greenbox to the machine. With the current gates, you can run 1 wire to the gate and from the gate to the machine... better.
Last week, I had a problem with my jointer gate and to troubleshoot, you can't use an app. ?You have to own a PC with the software installed and connect with a USB - serial cable.. ?I am a Mac guy, and so this is what is needed.
EcoGate is local to me and they sent someone to troubleshoot. ?Problem with bad motor and that was replaced. ?There was another very old gate that was making terrible noice and it just needs to be replaced --- over $500 for a 5 inch gate.
For me, I have overall had good success with EcoGate, and at this point I am locked into their system as I see no compelling reason to start over with another brand. ?I started with EcoGate when to my knowledge, that was the 1 system to get. ?However, if I did not have the EcoGate, I wonder if I would have selected GRIT instead. ?Not sure of the pros-cons of each system.
