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    Led lights vs overhead door operators

    Here is a great article that explains this pretty in-depth. The light on a garage door opener typically will stay on 4-6 minutes after operating your garage door opener, so when you are leaving, you could experience this, if your garage door opener is equipped with motion detection lighting...
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    Garage door opener remote

    There are many things that can cause the range of your remote to weaken. Typically radio frequency interference. A few things that can cause RF interference with your garage door opener is if you are within a 50 mile radius of a military base that is testing on the frequency, if you are using...
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    Do your LED garage lights cut out the radio?

    Here is a great article that explains interference with radio signals from LED bulbs. https://store.geniecompany.com/blogs/genie-blog/tagged/led-lighting
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    Do your LED garage lights cut out the radio?

    Yes typical LED or CFL bulbs can interfere with the radio signal of your garage door opener, which can weaken the signal of your garage door opener remote.
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    Proper Lubricant for an Old Genie Screw Drive Opener

    The Genie lubricant is the preferred lubricant for older screw drive garage door openers. Other lubricants can damage the screw or harden in colder weather etc. Application should be yearly, a few drops down the line of the screw, and then run the operator for proper application.
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    LED lights...garage door remote won't work

    CFL & LED light bulbs can cause Radio Frequency interference with a garage door openers remote control. If this occurs your remotes range can go from 500 feet to as little as 5 feet. A new solution to this problem is to go with a light bulb made by Genie that was specifically designed to be...
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    Worth repeating - Do not use CFLs in your garage door opener

    CFL & LED light bulbs can cause Radio Frequency interference with a garage door openers remote control. If this occurs your remotes range can go from 500 feet to as little as 5 feet. A new solution to this problem is to go with a light bulb made by Genie that was specifically designed to be...
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    LED bulbs that successfully work with electric Garage Door Openers

    The Genie Company has a new LED light bulb out that was designed specifically for garage door openers. The bulb reduces or eliminate RF interference with the remotes to your garage door opener. The bulb is a warmer color and shows that it is rated at 3000 Kelvins. A few other things that I...
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