Mighty Mule MM371W Automatic Gate Opener, Smart and Solar Ready, Includes Gate Opener Remote and More-Up to 16ft Long or 550lb, Black, 1 Gate Opener Kit

I finally had to replace my 9 year old FM350. This new one, MM371W, is awesome. The control board is no longer within the cylinder unit itself, makes programming so much easier. I had an issue at the very end of the install while I was setting the closed position limit. It closed, then wouldn’t respond to any of the control board buttons or the remote. I was at a loss. I called the dreaded technical support. I was on hold for like 3 minutes! AND it was a Saturday, the worst day to call any tech support. The support was amazing. He had me walk back down to the gate, he had me clear the settings and walked me through the closed limit procedure. So once you’re done setting the limit, you have to hold down the return button until you hear a beep, this locks in the settings. This last step is what I missed, it was waiting on me to hold down that enter button. The gate speed is at least twice as fast as the old model FM350. But it slows down when it gets close to the full open or closed position so the gate doesn’t slam open or closed. All my old remotes where also easy to program to the new gate. Hopefully I’ll get 9 years out of this one as well!

Had a 350 that worked well for a number of years but started becoming unreliable and I wasn't able to successfully troubleshoot it. The 371 was a drop in fit but needed to mount the separate control box. It's working well and I really like the increased speed of opening and closing.

Love it

This gate opener has worked flawlessly for the last 4 months it has been cold here for the last little while and with a small car battery and the mule sloar panel no issuses at all! Reccomend

MM371 w/ electronic lockUpdate! Because I'm a glutton for punishment, I bought a replacement gate opener, same model. My plan was to replace the unit without learning an entirely new install process. I planned to turn it off when at home, since I'll never trust Mighty Mule again. Well, I installed the EXACT SAME MODEL, in the exact same place and surprise, it has about half the power of the model I bought two years ago. It won't even push over the slightest bump in terrain (i have a helper wheel attatched to the bottom). And this was with the stall force turned up to max. I look at the packaging, and see Made In Mexico. So I guess they switched from China to Mexico, probably because of the fat 25% tariff on Chinese products. And when that happened, they sacrificed quality (hilarious that the Chinese version was actually better). So I packed up the "new and improved" Mule and sent it back. I am done with Mighty Mule forever.Did I mention the arm was assembled so poorly that the "weathertight" housing had a gap of 1/4" running along one side? Yes, they seemingly over torqued a screw and just said "yeah, good enough". So, I guess they have no QC either.... what an embarrassment of a product. C'est la vie!Original Review:After 2 years installed, woke up to find my dogs missing! We ran out and found them on the road. At first, we're thinking we carelessly left the gate open. I manually locked it, just in case, because my wife had mentioned some strange behavior a few times previously, but I never witnessed it personally. I go in to take a shower and my wife is yelling for me, the dogs are gone...again. I LOCKED the gate MANUALLY, and it still opened!!! What is the point of having a manual locking mechanism if the controller can override??? This time one of my dogs was truly gone. We searched for 20 minutes, up and down the road, panicked at the thought that our beloved dog was gone. No thanks to Mighty Mule, we found him coming out from a neighbors house. We got back inside the gate and I disconnected it from the hinges, and as I did that, I watched as the arm engaged (again, with no remote being depressed). It continued to cycle open and closed a dozen times until I disconnected it from the battery.What sort of gate opener is built so that a short circuit cycles the only function meant to keep people safe? Where are the safety redundancies? And again, the manual keyed lock, SHOULD NOT BE CAPABLE OF BEING OVERRIDDEN BY THE CONTROLLER!! What's the point of a manual keyed lock if it cycles open like normal?And before anyone assumes there was a fault in a signal device, we have no sensors, no driveway loop, just simple remote control access. All of the remotes were out of range from the gate at the time of the incidents. This is just poor workmanship, period. Mighty Mule sources their manufacturing to Smart Technologies out of Hong Kong. Do not trust cheap Chinese workmanship with the security of your family.