SilentDrive® Garage Door Openers

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Hörmann SilentDrive® Garage Door Openers

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Hörmann SilentDrive® garage door openers are the perfect companion to your garage door. All SilentDrive® openers are built with a DC motor and a composite aramid fiber reinforced belt drive system that provide a very quiet operation, dramatically enhancing your total quality experience. The adjustable "soft" start and "soft" stop feature allows minimum wear on the door and opener, ensuring a quiet-running door at every stage of opening and closing. With a SilentDrive® opener you’ll benefit not only from the safety features compliant with UL 325 requirements but from the unique Hörmann Beltension Guard™ and the EngageLock™.

No matter which SilentDrive® opener suits your needs, you will never compromise on quality.

SilentDrive® Features

  SilentDrive® 7560 SilentDrive® 8560
Super Quiet Operation
Smartphone Control BluSecur App: Bluetooth and optional WiFi gateway BluSecur App: Bluetooth and optional WiFi gateway
Smart Home Ecosystem Optional Apple/Alexa/Google via WLAN Gateway Optional Apple/Alexa/Google via WLAN Gateway
Homelink® Compatible Standard Standard
Drive System Aramid-reinforced belt Aramid-reinforced belt
Battery Backup Optional Optional
EngageLock™ Security Feature
Opening Speed 8.2 in/sec (high speed mode) 9.2 in/sec (highest verified speed in class)
Automatic Belt Tensioning Device
Safety Beam System
60-LED integrated lighting
4-button Mini Transmitter
3-button Wall Control
Door Heights Up to 10' high Up to 14' high
Lighted Wireless Keypad Optional Optional
Meets Current & Future UL 325 Requirements
Duty Cycle 25 cycles/day; 10 cycles/hr 50 cycles/day; 10 cycles/hr
Limited Lifetime Warranty

Hörmann Innovations

This built-in feature automatically maintains proper belt tension for the life of the opener to ensure quiet and trouble free operation while eliminating costly and inconvenient service requirements.

Beltension Guard™

This built-in feature automatically maintains proper belt tension for the life of the opener to ensure quiet and trouble free operation while eliminating costly and inconvenient service requirements.

Always feel safe with the unique EngageLock™ system.This integral feature eliminates door back drive action in the event of a power loss.

EngageLock™

Always feel safe with the unique EngageLock™ system.This integral feature eliminates door back drive action in the event of a power loss.

SilentDrive® Accessories

Standard Accessories

All of our SilentDrive® openers include these accessories as standard

Light Control
"Vacation Mode" Lock
Door Control

PB3 Wall Console Station

Door Control Button
Operates the door from inside your garage door 

Light Control
Independently operates opener lights. 

"Vacation Mode" Lock
Allows you to disable the garage door opener for extended periods of time.

HSE4 Mini Transmitter

This conveniently sized transmitter allows you to control up to four separate doors.

EL201 Safety Beam

These safety sensors safeguard the bottom of the door to stop and reverse the door if an object breaks the path of the beams to prevent damage from people and property.

Intelligent Motion Guard

On encountering an obstruction, the opener stops and reverses the door immediately to eliminate possible hazards. The opener is self-testing and also self-adjusting, eliminating the need for maintenance.

Optional Accessories

Add convenience in opening your garage door

Wall Button with Motion Sensor

Operates the door from inside your garage and independently operates opener lights. A separate lock switch allows you to disable the garage door opener for extended periods of time. A motion sensor activates the LED lighting when triggered.

Wireless Keypad

Lighted and covered keypad allows for easy remote access to your garage without wiring, with your own programmable personal security code.

WiFi Gateway

Gateway for voice operation and control of Hörmann openers via Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, Google Home / Google Assistant for indoor and outdoor use.

Emergency Battery Backup

With the emergency power, you can bypass network power failures for up to 18 hours and max 5 door cycles*. The emergency battery recharges itself during normal operation.

*Based on an average of 5 door cycles per day and an ambient temp of +20 degrees Celsius.

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