I've been researching gun safes (yeah yeah yeah... residential security containers) on this forum for a few weeks now and have narrowed it down to a couple different models. I have decided to go with a mechanical lock over an electronic, for me reliability is more important that speed/ease of opening.
The only curve ball I see is that some manufacturers offer an upgrade to a dual locking system which has BOTH a mechanical dial and electronic keypad. My understanding is that either one can be used independently to open the safe, so if (when) the electronic keypad breaks you have the mechanical dial so you can still access your safe. It seems like this is the best of both worlds and is only a few hundred dollars more for the upgrade which I would definetly not mind spending for the ease of the electronic and piece of mind of the mechanical.
So my questions is, am I missing something here? I'm by no means a safe expert, does having BOTH locks compromise security, make it more difficult/expensive for a safe tech to repair your safe in the event of a break in or failure, or something else I'm not thinking of? Or is this really having the best of both worlds?
The only curve ball I see is that some manufacturers offer an upgrade to a dual locking system which has BOTH a mechanical dial and electronic keypad. My understanding is that either one can be used independently to open the safe, so if (when) the electronic keypad breaks you have the mechanical dial so you can still access your safe. It seems like this is the best of both worlds and is only a few hundred dollars more for the upgrade which I would definetly not mind spending for the ease of the electronic and piece of mind of the mechanical.
So my questions is, am I missing something here? I'm by no means a safe expert, does having BOTH locks compromise security, make it more difficult/expensive for a safe tech to repair your safe in the event of a break in or failure, or something else I'm not thinking of? Or is this really having the best of both worlds?