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Garage Door Opener
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Submitted By:
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kpreese
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Date Created:
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04-21-2006
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Description:
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I've been using a keypad remote to open my garage door for my bike. I've been concerned about this on those rare late night situations because I can coast past all the houses in my neighborhood, but I have to park the bike, dismount, enter the code to open the door, remount the bike and rev it to get the bike moving again and into the garage.
Ideally, when approaching the house, I could have the door opening and then I should be able to coast all the way up the driveway and into the garage without making much noise at all. I ran across the HD opener kit which I discuss below. I wasn't able to use that, but I decided I could come up with a good solution.
The HD garage door opener kit is pretty slick. You flash your brights and that triggers the transmitter which is wired to the bike and doesn't need batteries.
The downsides are:
1. Retail price is $126.95
2. While it uses a revolving code system like my Genie, it still means using two separate receivers and that's twice the risk of accidental openings or someone gaining access.
3. Flashing the brights as I approach the house could annoy the neighbors (I doubt it though provided the headlight was pointed straight down the street) and I'd have to wait if an oncoming car was passing.
4. My particular opener does NOT have an extra set of terminals for an external switch. It indicates in the manual that only ONE wall switch be connected to these terminals. I suspect that the HD unit could be made to work, but if I take the manual at face value, then it will not work.
But this solution seems to work quite well.
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Guts of the Genie remote
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Power wires soldered in place
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Installed Deans connector to power wires
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Power leads prepared
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Double sided tape inside dash panel
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Remote mounted
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Switch installed on dash
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Switch installation from the outside
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All done!
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