Description
The ATA PE-3 Wired Safety Beam Kit is a genuine 2-wire photoelectric safety system designed for compatible ATA and B&D garage door, roller door and gate operators.
Using ATA’s newer 2-wire safety beam technology, the PE-3 creates an invisible infrared beam across the door or gate opening. If a vehicle, person, pet or other obstruction interrupts the beam while the door or gate is closing, the connected operator can stop or reverse movement to help prevent contact.
The PE-3 is particularly well suited to new installations, existing installations where safety beam wiring is already available, and applications where a permanent hard-wired safety system is preferred over battery-powered wireless beams. ATA describes its 2-wire beams as using the same modern modulated sensing technology found in its wireless systems.
👁️ Additional Door & Gate Safety
The PE-3 provides an additional level of protection around an automatic garage door or gate.
A transmitter and receiver are positioned opposite each other across the opening, creating an invisible infrared safety beam.
If an obstruction enters the beam path during closing, the safety system communicates this condition to the compatible operator.
This helps provide additional protection for:
- Vehicles
- People
- Children
- Pets
- Bicycles
- Equipment
- Stored items
- Objects within the door or gate opening
🛑 Non-Contact Obstruction Detection
One of the key advantages of the PE-3 is its ability to detect an obstruction before the moving door or gate physically makes contact with it.
Force-based obstruction detection generally relies on the operator detecting unexpected resistance during movement.
The PE-3 instead monitors the opening itself.
If the infrared beam is interrupted, the connected operator can respond immediately according to its programmed safety function.
ATA states that when its safety beam detects an object in the path of a closing door, the door will stop and reverse.
🔌 Modern 2-Wire Technology
The PE-3 uses a simple 2-wire connection rather than the traditional 3-wire arrangement found on earlier ATA photoelectric safety beams.
ATA identifies the PE-3 as its current 2-wire wired safety beam system and states that it uses modulated sensing technology similar to that incorporated into its wireless safety beams.
The 2-wire design provides:
- Simple hard-wired installation
- Reliable communication
- Reduced wiring requirements
- No wireless communication required
- No sensor batteries to replace
- Compatibility with selected newer ATA and B&D operators
- Excellent suitability for permanent installations
🔋 No Batteries Required
Unlike ATA’s WPE wireless safety beam systems, the PE-3 does not rely on batteries in the transmitter and receiver.
Power and communication are provided through the wired connection.
This eliminates periodic safety beam battery replacement and makes the PE-3 particularly attractive for installations where minimal ongoing maintenance is desired.
📏 Up to 20m Infrared Beam Range
The PE-3 provides an infrared beam range of up to approximately 20 metres according to ATA’s PE-3 installation documentation.
This extended range allows the system to be used across a wide variety of openings, including applications considerably wider than a typical residential garage door.
The available range makes the PE-3 suitable for residential, commercial and compatible gate automation applications.
🔌 Pre-Wired Beam System
The PE-3 transmitter and receiver are supplied as a pre-wired safety beam set.
Current kits include the required beam wiring, with listings identifying approximately 17 metres of wiring harness supplied with the system.
This provides the installer with the primary components required to connect the safety beams to a compatible operator.
🚗 Helps Protect Vehicles
Vehicles are one of the most common reasons for installing photoelectric safety beams.
A vehicle may occasionally remain partially within the garage door or gate opening while manoeuvring, loading or unloading.
If the automatic system begins closing while the vehicle is interrupting the PE-3 beam, the connected operator can respond before the moving door or gate reaches the vehicle.
This provides additional protection beyond conventional force-based obstruction detection.
🐕 Additional Protection for Children & Pets
The PE-3 can also provide additional protection where children or pets regularly move through an automatic opening.
Correctly positioned safety beams monitor the lower area of the door or gate opening and can detect many obstructions before physical contact occurs.
ATA recommends positioning the infrared beam approximately 100mm above ground level for its PE-3 system.
🔄 Enables Auto-Close Functionality
On compatible operators, installing the PE-3 can allow Auto-Close functionality to be used.
Auto-Close allows the garage door or gate to automatically close after a predetermined period.
This can provide additional convenience and security by reducing the likelihood of a garage door or gate being accidentally left open.
Because the closing cycle can begin automatically, photoelectric safety beams provide an important method of monitoring the opening for obstructions.
📱 Ideal for Automated Access Systems
The PE-3 is particularly useful where an operator incorporates automatic or remote operating functions.
In these applications, photoelectric safety beams provide an additional method of monitoring the opening independently of the person operating the door or gate.
This makes the PE-3 suitable for applications such as:
- Automatic garage doors
- Automatic roller doors
- Sliding gates
- Vehicle access gates
- Auto-Close systems
- Remote-controlled access systems
🏠 Ideal for Residential Garage Doors
The PE-3 is compatible with a broad range of ATA and B&D residential garage door openers.
It can be used with compatible roller door and sectional door operators, making it suitable for both common residential garage door types.
Typical applications include:
- Single garage doors
- Double garage doors
- Sectional overhead doors
- Roller garage doors
- Existing automation upgrades
- New garage door installations
🚧 Suitable for Gate Automation
The PE-3 is also compatible with selected ATA gate automation products.
Photoelectric safety detection is particularly valuable around automatic gates because vehicles and pedestrians regularly move through the operating area.
Compatible applications include selected:
- NeoSlider operators
- Gate control boards
- Sliding gate systems
- Residential driveway gates
- Commercial vehicle access gates
The exact beam positioning should be determined according to the individual gate installation.
🆕 Ideal for New Installations
The wired PE-3 is particularly well suited to new garage door and gate installations.
Safety beam cabling can be installed at the same time as the automation system, allowing the wiring to be concealed or neatly incorporated into the building or gate structure.
This provides a clean finished installation without requiring batteries or wireless communication.
🔄 Ideal for Existing Pre-Wired Installations
The PE-3 is also an excellent option where an existing garage door or gate installation already has suitable safety beam wiring.
ATA specifically describes its wired safety beams as ideal for sites with existing wiring or where a wired system is required by the installation specification.
This can make the PE-3 an ideal replacement or upgrade where suitable cabling is already available.
💡 Alignment Indicators
Correct alignment between the transmitter and receiver is essential for reliable operation.
ATA’s PE-3 installation instructions describe LED indication on the beam units to assist with alignment.
The transmitter and receiver can be adjusted horizontally and vertically until the corresponding red LED remains illuminated, confirming correct alignment.
📐 Correct Beam Positioning
ATA recommends installing the transmitter and receiver in direct line-of-sight with the infrared beam approximately 100mm above ground level.
The installation documentation indicates this can be achieved by mounting the bottom of the transmitter and receiver approximately 65mm above floor level.
The beams should also be positioned as close as practical to the door or gate opening.
Correct positioning helps provide effective obstruction detection across the protected area.
🧹 Low-Maintenance Safety Solution
The hard-wired design makes the PE-3 a relatively low-maintenance safety system.
There are no sensor batteries requiring periodic replacement.
Routine maintenance should include:
- Cleaning the transmitter and receiver lenses
- Checking sensor alignment
- Inspecting mounting brackets
- Inspecting wiring
- Checking cable connections
- Testing obstruction detection
- Confirming correct operator response
ATA recommends periodically testing the beams by obstructing the transmitter or receiver during operation and confirming that the door responds correctly.
🆚 PE-3 vs Wireless Safety Beams
The PE-3 provides the same fundamental photoelectric obstruction detection as ATA’s wireless safety beam systems but uses a permanent wired connection.
The PE-3 may be the preferred option where:
- Safety beam wiring is already installed
- Wiring can easily be installed during construction
- Battery maintenance is undesirable
- A permanent hard-wired connection is preferred
- The operator specifically supports ATA’s 2-wire beam system
Wireless WPE safety beams may instead be more convenient when retrofitting safety protection to a completed garage where running additional cables would be difficult.
🆚 PE-3 vs Legacy 3-Wire Safety Beams
The PE-3 should also not be confused with ATA’s earlier 3-wire photoelectric safety beams.
ATA currently distinguishes between its newer 2-wire wired safety beams and its legacy 3-wire technology.
The correct safety beam system must therefore be selected according to the operator and control board fitted to the installation.
🔧 Genuine ATA Safety Accessory
The PE-3 is a genuine Automatic Technology Australia accessory designed specifically for compatible ATA and B&D automation systems.
The current PE-3V1 kit is identified under part number 62626 in current listings and ATA documentation.
Using the correct ATA safety beam system helps ensure the sensors are electrically compatible with the intended operator and provides a purpose-designed safety solution.
📦 Kit Includes
The ATA PE-3 Wired Safety Beam Kit includes the primary components required for installation.
The kit includes:
- 1 x PE-3 Transmitter (TX)
- 1 x PE-3 Receiver (RX)
- Pre-wired safety beam cabling
- Mounting brackets
- Mounting screws / hardware
- Installation instructions
Current listings identify the PE-3 as a pre-wired TX/RX beam set with approximately 17 metres of wiring harness and mounting hardware.
Key Features
- Genuine ATA Wired Safety Beam Kit
- PE-3 / PE-3V1
- ATA Part No. 62626
- Modern 2-wire safety beam technology
- Photoelectric obstruction detection
- Invisible infrared safety beam
- Non-contact obstruction detection
- Up to approximately 20m infrared beam range
- Helps detect vehicles, people and pets
- Stops or reverses compatible operators when the beam is interrupted
- Hard-wired connection
- No sensor batteries required
- Pre-wired transmitter and receiver
- Approximately 17m wiring harness
- LED alignment indication
- Recommended 100mm beam height
- Enables Auto-Close on compatible operators
- Ideal for new installations
- Ideal where safety beam wiring already exists
- Suitable for compatible garage doors
- Suitable for compatible gate automation
- Low-maintenance safety solution
- Genuine Automatic Technology Australia accessory
Specifications
- Manufacturer: Automatic Technology Australia (ATA)
- Product: Wired Safety Beam Kit
- Model: PE-3 / PE-3V1
- Part Number: 62626
- Product Type: Wired Photoelectric Safety System
- Wiring System: 2-Wire
- Detection Method: Infrared Safety Beam
- Infrared Beam Range: Up to 20m
- Obstruction Detection: Non-Contact
- Connection: Hard Wired
- Sensor Batteries Required: No
- Approximate Wiring Harness: 17m
- Alignment Indication: LED
- Recommended Beam Height: Approximately 100mm
- Application: Garage Door & Gate Automation Safety
- Auto-Close Support: Yes, with compatible operators
ATA’s documentation identifies the PE-3V1 as a 2-wire EasyBeam system with a 20m infrared range, while current kits are supplied as a pre-wired transmitter and receiver set.
⚠️ Please Note
The PE-3 uses ATA’s 2-wire safety beam technology and should not be confused with the older ATA 3-wire safety beam system.
Some operator families were produced across multiple generations and may use different safety beam connections. For example, earlier versions may require ATA’s legacy 3-wire beam system while later Gen2 or L2 versions support the PE-3 2-wire system.
For this reason, compatibility should be confirmed using the exact operator model and control board version before ordering.
The PE-3 must be correctly wired, positioned, aligned and tested before use.
Safety beams should also be periodically tested to confirm that interrupting the infrared beam produces the correct response from the operator.
Safety beams do not replace the requirement for a correctly balanced, mechanically sound and properly maintained garage door or gate.
