A hotel door lock contains many parts, but the following 10 things should not appear on a Good hotel door lock.
1.The circuit board is exposed
As the brain of a electronic hotel lock, the circuit board(reader,PCB,mainboard) contains various very precise components such as the MCU,memory chip and many diodes, capacitance resistors.
All of these electronic components should be put in a very stable environment.
It should not be un-protected.
The protection does not mean only a coat layer on the board surface, but also a housing on above it, to protect it from damaged by accident, when it in shipping, and installation.
Turn the panel upside down and if you find it looks like this, stay away from the locks
2.The cylinder cover drop out
The widely known hotel locks normally does not contain a visable cylinder cover.So they have not such an issue.
But for normal hotel door locks, if the model have a visable cylinder cover(a hole of cylinder, to insert key), it should not be easily get drop out.
The cover lost is always a headache for many hotels.
After a long term using, the all cover on the lock was gone.
3. The plastic housing poor surface treatmen.
The good feeling of plastic housing usually require the treatment good.
The dark color is due to the fact that the plastic is not made of high quality raw materials.
4. Anti panic function Not smoothly
Anti panic is a essential function on the mechanical structure of hotel door lock.
It ensures that guests can open the door quickly in case of an emergency, when the door is double locked(thumb turn was activated)
The anti panic should be felt very light and smooth. If feel hard to press the level handle, that means the structure inside lock mortise is not good enough.
5. No external power
Many hotel door lock don’t support external power input.
That means if the battery dead, and if key lost. There will be big trouble.
6. A Strange style
If a strangely shaped lock is placed in front of you, you have to ask yourself why it should be made this way. Or what’s the point of doing such a style?
If the answer is just to make it look different with other hotel door locks, you should leave it alone.
Some look top-heavy, some like a sword, Some are like coffins.
Strange proportion-likes a big head and a short body, or a small head on a very long body.
Human beings have something in common about beauty.
7.An EPS filler in packing box.
Hotel locks are bulk purchase, it does not need a pretty look packaging. Color printing film – coated packaging will impact on the environment. Meanwhile, The shock-resistant filler must not be non-degradable.
EPS（Expanded Polystyrene）is an very old filler of packing.It is not friendly to environment. How the trend is using paparboard instead of EPS.
8. Gaskets under handle is visible
This is a very tiny details, but it says something about attitu
de of hotel lock manufacturer.
It could be make smaller than the diameter of the handle.
9. Lack the reset function
Some hotel door locks don’t have the reset function.
When the door lock function is malfunctioning, users don’t know how to fix it.
But if lock has a reset function(a reset button, or a soft reset method) the user can make the lock go to a very initial status.
