How to open AMSEC's ESL-10 XL Electronic Digital Safe Lock

The AMSEC ESL-10XL Electronic Digital Safe Lock is installed on many Amsec Gun Safes because of its high security, quick access, and user-friendly features. AMSEC ESL-10 XL . For PDF instructions on how to open, change the combination & the batteries on this and other electronic digital safe locks, go to http://www.deansafe.com/inforopandch.html

Hi my name's John Dean with Dean Safe Company and I want to introduce you to this electronic lock. It's called the ESL10, and it's a very good lock, it's a high-security lock. I want to show you how easy it is to open it. I want to show you how easy it is to change the combination, and how easy it is to change the batteries.

We get a lot of calls on this, it's really easy. Let me show you to open the safe, you hit clear (C) and I have the existing combination as one, two, three, four, five, six, hit the pound/hash (#) and you're in the safe.

Let me show you how easy it is to change the Combination. The first thing you've got to do with all electronic locks is open up the door and throw the bolts out. That way even if you screw it up, you don't really screw it up. The first thing we do with the keypad is we hit the "C" (clear) and then the "#" (pound/hash), we put in our existing combination which I have preset to one, two, three, four, five, six, and we hit the "#" (pound/hash) again.

We're going to put in our new combination two times. I'm going to go six, five, four, three, two, one, "#" (pound/hash) Six, five, four, three, two, one, "#" and we'll get a long warble. What's that telling us? That tells us it works great. Okay. Now let's check it. We're locked, we'll try the old combination.

"C" one, two, three, four, five, six, "#". Okay I got four beeps, that means that is the incorrect combination, it washed that out of its memory. Now we hit "C" six, five, four, three, two, one, "#". We're ready to go, We're unlocked.

Now let me show you how to change the batteries. This particular lock, you turn it to the left about twenty degrees and it comes right off, and you have two nine volt batteries. It only likes alkaline batteries, you just unsnap the
batteries, put them in, and just put the unit right back on where it was. It's just that easy. Now, Even when the batteries are dead the existing combination is frozen in there and will last for years and years and years so don't worry about that if you go away for a year and then come back and your batteries are dead. Get two brand-new alkaline batteries and slam them in here and you're going to be just fine.

So you've got a high-security lock you're the only person in the whole world that knows how to do it's By the way when I put the wrong code in, one of the reasons these locks are so good - if you put the wrong code in four times in a row, you get a lock out penalty. So it just takes forever to try and manipulate
these electronic locks. Dial lock not much of a problem, these electronic locks are way ahead of them, that's why these are considered a high-security
lock.

Anyway, the ESL10 by American Security Products. Watch the video again if you didn't pick up the first time

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[Phuild]

I doubt I could ever trust a keypad that just twists off, allowing access to the electrical workings.

[DeanSafe]

@Phuild You will happy to know that's not the case with any "grade 1" lock as all the Electrical working are inside the lock inside the safe. Think of it like your computer keyboard, it just supply's input to the inside of the computer just like the keypad just supply's info to the lock.

Thanks,

John

[HisNameIsTim]

Another question, if one was to get into the wiring for the keypad, and fry the internals by assaulting them with high voltage, I would assume the safe would be rendered unusable and the manufacturer or a professional safe cracker would have to be called to get at whatever was inside?

[DeanSafe]

@HisNameIsTim Your right, but the lock died doing exactly what it was designed to do, Keeping the safe locked and protected. As a bonus, many home and gun safe Mfg's will warranty this type burglary attack with a police report if the safe is used in a residences.

[HisNameIsTim]

Please tell me the memory is stored inside the safe door or there's some kind of hardwired sync between the electronics inside and outside. Otherwise it would be conceivable to just remove the keypad from your own safe and use it on someone else's wouldn't it?

[DeanSafe]

@HisNameIsTim On all U.L. rated locks the Brains are in the inside of the safe, not so on some cheep imports safes.

Thanks,

John

[DeanSafe]

@Voidnerd Good question, but the "board" and brains are inside the lock, that's inside the safe. The keypad is really only a keypad and battery holder.

Thanks,

John

[DeanSafe]

@sybaris720 I would put this somewhere between highly unlikely and impossible, but since you brought it up if it were a mechanical lock and you found the safe door open all you would need to do read the the wheels and you'll know the combo. Once again; Mechanical locks = 0, Digital Locks=1

[Krzyshng]

@sybaris720

Not sure if serious... If someone gains access to the safe to plant this theoretical recording device then why wouldn't they just steal the contents then, why would they need to get the code and then come back?

[DeanSafe]

@KaleemNiz Oh how easy my life would be if that worked on any one of the "U.L.labeled Electronic locks". Everyone from the U.L. to the CIA is on the alert for away to get around these lock as most of the secrets in the world are locked up behind U.L. locks of this type. There are however many of the low cost box store import safes (check out sam's, Costco, etc.). I even sell some (just to compete) that your technique will work on. That's why one should buy from a professional.

Thanks,

John