Genie 4060 Excelerator 1/2-Horsepower DC Screw Drive Garage Door Opener

by Genie

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Genie Excelerator 4060 model features super-duty 1/2-horsepower DC motor that opens twice as fast as most garage door openers, but closes at the standard speed for increased safety, safe speed. The powerful motor offers quiet operation and provides maximum lifting power. Gentle starts and stops increase door life. Reliable performance in hot, cold, or humid environments. Bright wide-angle lighting illuminates the entire garage. As the original screw drive manufacturer, Genie has been dedicated to providing the most complete garage door opening systems for more than 50 years. Comprehensive six-part Safe-T-Beam package meets or exceeds all UL, state, federal and CSA regulations, and incorporates an auto reversing system that stops and reverses door when interrupted, and LED diagnostics. Genie Intellicode technology helps prevent unauthorized persons from opening your garage door by automatically changing the access code every time you use it. The 4060 includes two 3-button remotes, a deluxe wall console, and features a Lifetime warranty on motor and 5 year warranty on parts. Limited and non-transferable. See warranty for details.

Product Description

Includes (2) 3-Button Remotes, Deluxe Wall Console, Installation Guide, Lifetime Motor And 5 Year Parts Genie Warranty

Product Details

• Item Weight: 36 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 36 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B001CQO4IU
• Item model number: 4060
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #75,877 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars died after 3 years, September 4, 2009

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cool hand luke (CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Genie 4060 Excelerator 1/2-Horsepower DC Screw Drive Garage Door Opener (Tools & Home Improvement)

This unit worked fine when it worked. Bought it from Lowes and put it together myself, it takes a fair amount of time. Its nice and quiet. We've owned it for almost 3 years now and it just died. I paid an electrician to come over ($75 just to show up) and make sure that my breakers and wiring was okay, and they were. He tested power to the unit and it was there. It just died, motor apparently. Anyway, I expected more. My parents have the old fashioned chain drive garage door opener, its loud, but its still working and they've had it for more than 25 years. Not looking forward to having to install another of these, one things for sure, it won't be a Genie.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor Quality-Reliability, limited customer service, December 20, 2009

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JT - See all my reviews

This review is from: Genie 4060 Excelerator 1/2-Horsepower DC Screw Drive Garage Door Opener (Tools & Home Improvement)

Genie Excelerator - I now need my 3rd control circuit board in 6 years! There is a reason the parts warranty on many of their product is only 2 years!! No help from customer service, they just wanted to know if it was less than 2 years old. Circuit boards on all other products last much longer. Same failure everytime. I keep having to turn up (increase) the close or open force each time (to get it to work for a little longer) until I run out of adjustment, and then I have to order a new circuit board at $65-80. Enough, I'm changing brands.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Garage Door Opener, May 28, 2009

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R. L. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Genie 4060 Excelerator 1/2-Horsepower DC Screw Drive Garage Door Opener (Tools & Home Improvement)

The garage door opener in the house I just bought died after the 3rd day of owning the place. I bought the Genie Excelerator Powerlift H8000-07 as a replacement. Installation is not difficult but can be time consuming. It took me about 6 hours to install, but that included a couple of mistakes on my part that could have been avoided by paying closer attention to the directions. The only potential problem you may run into is if your old system attached to the brackets on the front of the power head instead of on the side. This means the brackets won't line up to this power head. This can easily be solved by drilling a couple new holes in the ceiling studs a littler further from the door and mounting the bracket there.

It's worked very well ever since I got it installed. It is much quieter than any other garage door opener I've used in the past. There is a slight buzz from the engine, and the moving parts of the system are even quieter than the engine. On all the previous models of garage door openers I've used, I couldn't even hear the engine because the chain or screw made so much noise.

The other nice feature of this unit is that it opens about twice as fast as most other doors, but it closes at the normal 'safe' speed. The increased speed is nice for security (getting inside your house faster), and even if you're not worried about security it's nice not having to sit in your car waiting on your door to open.

I did not buy this from Amazon. Amazon's description of this item says it has a lifetime warranty on the engine and a 5 year warranty on parts. Instead, I got it from The Home Depot. The model they have there has a lifetime warranty for the engine, parts, and home labor, and at the time of this review, it cost about the same amount, just under 240. One note, the warranty is non-transferable and Genie's definition of 'lifetime' means for as long as you own your home. Having just bought a new house, I couldn't pass up the warranty on the model at the Home Depot.