Push And Pull: Electric-Life Door Poppers
By Kevin Whipps
When someone tells you they need a door popper, usually what they’re really talking about is the solenoid, the part that opens the latch and frees the door from its locked status. A door popper, on the other hand, applies constant pressure to the door, so that when the solenoid opens the door latch, the popper will push the door open. If you don’t have the popper, when the solenoid releases and the latch engages again, the door’ll just be sticking out a quarter inch from the jamb, still latched shut. It’s complicated, I know, but we’ll take our time to explain it in more detail some other time when you’re paying attention.
Anyways, these particular door poppers are made by Electric-Life, and they’re a little different than your traditional popper. Normally, a popper is mounted on the door jamb by the latch, where not much pressure is needed to open the door. But these poppers mount in the hinge side, which keeps them nicely concealed from view. Better yet, they provide 70-lbs of popping power in a tiny form.
Door Thrusters [Electric-Life]
