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FAAC Gate Motor Replacement: The Yonkers Owner’s Guide

FAAC gate motor replacement in Yonkers typically runs $650 to $1,450 installed, depending on your model series and whether we’re replacing the motor assembly alone or the full operator unit. Most FAAC swing and slide gate motors can be sourced and installed same week, and we keep the most common FAAC replacement motors and capacitors on the truck for the 390, 400, and 770 series. The way owners usually discover the motor has failed is simple: the gate stops mid-swing, starts humming without moving, or trips the breaker every time it’s asked to open. You hear the relay click, but nothing travels.

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Which FAAC Models This Applies To

Calder Gate Repair Yonkers works on the full range of FAAC residential and light-commercial operators that show up across Westchester: the 390 and 391 swing gate motors, the 400 and 402 hydraulic operators, the 750 and 770 slide gate series, and the older S700/S800 units still running in neighborhoods like Crestwood and Lincoln Park. The compatibility gotcha with FAAC is the control board: a motor from one sub-series will often bolt up to the other’s gearbox but refuse to talk to the board, because the motor encoder wiring changed between generations. We match by the model plate on the side of the operator housing, not by eye. If the plate is gone, we photograph the gearbox and connector pattern and match it against FAAC’s parts reference before ordering anything.

On the OEM versus aftermarket question, we’re honest about the math. Genuine FAAC motors run roughly 20 to 30 percent more than a quality aftermarket equivalent, but they carry the manufacturer’s exact winding spec and plug-in compatibility. Aftermarket units from established suppliers work reliably for most residential gates, and we’ll quote both options up front. We’re an independent service provider, not affiliated with FAAC, which means we stock what actually fails in the field rather than what a dealer catalog pushes.

Signs Your FAAC Gate Motor Replacement Is Failing

• The gate hums but doesn’t move. The motor windings are getting power, but the start capacitor has weakened or the gearbox has seized. We diagnose this on the phone in under five minutes by asking you to describe the exact sound.
• The gate opens halfway, then stops and reverses. That’s the encoder or limit sensor sending bad position data back to the board. The motor is likely fine, but on older FAAC units it’s often cheaper to replace the motor with its integrated encoder than to chase intermittent faults.
• The breaker trips every time you use the gate. A motor drawing more current than it’s rated for is either starting to short internally or fighting a damaged gearbox. Both point to a replacement, not a repair.
• The gate moves slower than it did a year ago. On hydraulic FAAC operators, motor wear shows up as sluggish travel before it becomes outright failure. In Yonkers winters, thickened hydraulic fluid compounds the strain.
• Burning smell from the operator housing. That’s overheated windings or a failing capacitor leaking inside the enclosure. Power the unit down at the breaker and don’t run it until a technician looks at it.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

For FAAC gate motor replacement in Yonkers, expect $650 to $950 for a swing gate motor swap (parts and labor), and $950 to $1,450 when the job includes a slide gate motor, new chain sprockets, and limit reconfiguration. The price depends on which series you have, whether the gearbox is reusable, and whether we’re swapping just the motor or the complete operator head. Every quote spells out parts and labor as separate line items, and the written price you approve before we start is the price on the invoice when we leave. The work is covered by the 365-Day Done Right Promise: if the replacement motor fails within a year, we return at no charge and make it right. No deductibles, no fine print, no arguing about whose fault it was.

DIY or Call Us?

What you can safely check: confirm the breaker hasn’t tripped, confirm the gate moves freely by hand in manual release mode, and confirm the remote or keypad isn’t the problem by testing the wired push button. Those three checks take five minutes and they save you from paying for a service call that was really just a loose wire. What we’d steer you away from: opening the operator housing and probing terminals on a live FAAC board, or trying to remove the motor yourself. These units run on 120V AC and store charge in capacitors that can still bite after the breaker is off. A motor swap on a FAAC 400 also requires relieving hydraulic pressure the right way, or you end up with fluid everywhere and a gearbox that’s no longer worth saving. Call (585) 496-2148 and Nico Alvarez or a technician will walk you through the checks over the phone before we even schedule a visit: “Tell me what the gate is doing wrong – I’ll tell you exactly what it needs and what it costs. No runaround.”

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