Encon Electronics held its third consecutive seminar this year at their training facility in Hayward, Calif. They collaborated with gate operator manufacturer Viking Access Systems on June 24th offering a technical workshop to over forty Encon dealers.

Viking chief engineer, Daniel Perez, conducted the all day seminar and participants truly benefited from his technical expertise. “The lecturing style of Mr. Perez coupled with his hand written diagrams and slide presentation made the material easy to grasp,” noted Encon’s Vicki Jones

Perez opened the seminar by questioning the attendees, “What issues do you want Viking to address and what changes would you like us to make to our product line?” While gathering feedback from the attendees, Mr. Perez offered on the spot solutions and wrote down notes to himself for future designs.

Perez then covered Viking’s battery backup systems, a standard feature offered on every operator manufactured by Viking. According to Perez, “Viking’s unique helical-bevel gear system is the reason our battery backups are so efficient. They are designed to distribute the load and reduce vibration and noise. The battery backup cycles can range anywhere from 100 to 400 depending on the gate operator.” Several attendees were astonished by Perez’ battery cycle claims. Perez insisted, “The helical-bevel system provides smoother operation which results in less power being consumed on 24V. As a result, we can obtain more cycles in the event of a power loss.”

Next, Perez outlined the new products Viking recently released including the heavily anticipated and now available B-12 barrier operator. He explained the two year research and development process involved with the design of the B-12. “I scrapped two prior versions of the B-12 operator before approving the final product. The most important thing to us was to produce a quality barrier operator.”

Daniel Perez, Chief Viking Engineer, lecturing to over forty Encon dealers at the Encon Training Facility in Hayward, Calif.

During break Daniel continues discussion with Bob Blankenship (Blankenship Construction, Ferndale, CA ), Rick Dentoni and Dennis Dentoni (Automatic Gate Installation, Campbell, CA) and Dave Hooker (Bay Cities Auto Gate, San Carlos).

Jonathan Becerra, Viking Vice President of Sales showing Gregg Curry of GateSmith the all new B-12 Barrier Operator.

Attendees looking at entire Viking operator line on display throughout the seminar.