LA GARD LG Basic digital electronic safe lock changing combo and battery

How to change the combination and battery on the LaGard "LG Basic" safe lock. For instructions on this and other electronic digital safe locks, go to http://www.deansafe.com/inforopandch.html The La Gard lock is seen on many Gun Safes because of its high security, quick access, and user friendly features. Often found in gun safes, ATM's, Cannon Safe used this lock exclusively with great success for years

Hi, my name is John Dean, I am with Dean Safe, I want to show you, and introduce you to the LaGard LG Basic lock. This is an immensely popular lock. It is a high security digital lock and I want to show you three things. I want to show you how to open it, how to change the combination, and how to replace the batteries.
It will only take a second to do all three.

First we will open it, I have this set to one, two, three, four, five, six. And there it is, the safe is open. It is that simple. Now, in order to change the combination, it is always recommended that you throw the bolts out, and we're going to hit six zeros (000000), then your existing combination, you already know what that is, and new combination, the new combination, we have to input it two times, so we are going to do this. 0,0,0,0,0,0(Six zeros) That wakes it up into the change mode. You put in the old combination one, two, three, four, five, six. We wait a half a heartbeat, then you put in the new one. Six, five, four, three, two, one, twice, six, five, four, three, two, one. Now, it's complete.

Well, now we will give it a test. Six, five, four, three, two, one. Works great. Close it up and you're done.

Now changing the batteries is just about that simple. On the LG basic they made a couple of different configurations. First thing you do, is you look down below see if there's a little door, a little plastic door there.

If there is a door there, pull it out and a nine-volt battery will drop into your hand. This one's a little bit different, with this one you just push it up slightly, and there's your nine volt battery, you put in a new nine volt it comes out real easy, it is not attached in there hard, you put in a new nine volt and you just put it back on the safe. There are two little keyed areas. There you go. There is also a time out penalty. What makes this a high security lock is, if somebody pushes the incorrect combination three times, on the fourth time it's in lockout for fifteen minutes. So it takes forever to try and manipulate a lock like this.

Another thing to remember is, all the brains on this thing, are on the inside, this is merely a battery holder and keypad, so if a burglar comes along, and pulls this off, and tries to attach another one, which is hard to do. But, it won't work, it's like pulling the keyboard off your computer, and plugging it into somebody else's computer, and thinking that your password will work on their machine, it just doesn't work that way.

These are excellent locks, we've had years and years of trouble free service. I usually wait until the battery dies, before I put a new battery in it, which is about five to six years but we recommend you do it every other year at the least. Always use an alkaline battery, a high-quality alkaline battery.

That is all you need to know, thank you very much

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[WunHunDread]

is this procedure the same for "master code/ user code" situations? i thought i read somewhere about holding down the last # in the master code i believe, could you clarify? much appreciated

[DeanSafe]

@WunHunDread You should go to our site and down load the PDF instructions on this lock. DeanSafe.com

There are so many E-Locks on the market now, even I'm confused.

[UnfamousJames]

In a time penalty situation the user is locked out for 3 minutes, not 15.

[DeanSafe]

@UnfamousJames Thanks for the heads up. I gave La Gard a call and it turns out we're both incorrect. La Gard now has a 5 to 7Minute (varies on each lock) Lock out for each incorrect combo once put into lockout mode.

You are to be congratulated, many pro from both Lock Co's and Safe Co's reviewed this video for accuracy and never picked up on that.

[haircutncolor]

Thanks you for this video. We lost our safe manual and even the store where we bought the gun safe did not know this information.  Thank you!!!

[DeanSafe]

So glad It was a help and thank you for your kind words.

John

[WORRO01]

I really appreciate hearing good words reference this lock. IM a new safe owner, and my safe has this type lock. I was sceptical and still am a little over electronics verses a dial or key, but knock on wood maybe this will give me years of great service.

Thumbs up video!

[reneefrench1234]

@UnfamousJames Thank you so much..I was going crazy trying to get the key pad off. You are awesome!

Renee

[camillerowilliam]

hi.

I would like to know how to change the opening time of the combo Lagarde. change the time of a safe that has 5 minutes and put 1 minute

My Name is Cesar Chapa an d the e mail is cesar_mano@hotmail.com

Quite appreciate the support

[UnfamousJames]

@WunHunDread For the LG Basic there is only 1 Manager combination(123456 by default) and 1 User combination that can be added by said manager. Both combinations are changed the same way for the LG Basic(Six Zero's -> Old -> New x2).