Garage door opener problem

[shross]

I installed a craftsman garage door opner Bout 18 years ago. It is a static, non- rotating code type that has worked flawlessly until a little while ago. Now, every once in a while when either my wife or I drive up to the garage door and press the butto. On the remote, the door won't open. Then, we have to get out of the car, go through the man door and open the door with the hard wired control butto. To get in the garage.

There is no rhyme or reason to when it works or doesn't. Day or night, different weather conditions, different remote openers, changed batteries a number of times... Sometimes it opens, sometimes it doesn't. Also, at times, when we are exiting the garage and want to use the remote to close the overhead door, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I have thought that maybe there is some new interference from a neighbour and I have thought of simply changing the DIN switches to a new code but have not pursued that yet.

Any ideas as to the problem?

 

[Chevy-SS]

Check local area to see if someone is causing interference. I live near Newport Naval Base and a few years back they changed primary radio frequencies. I had EXACT same garage door problems as you. FINALLY I ran into someone who schooled me on the new frequencies at the Base. Bottom line, I had to get a repeater kit and two new remotes. Worked like a charm.

 

[Jlbc212]

You indicated that the problem is not just with one remote, but with different remotes. Because the opener still works with the wall button, the problem is in the radio receiver. Some of the older Sears units have the wall button right on the radio receiver. It looks like a black box, maybe the size of a brick. See if it has a white wire, the antenna, sticking out from the box. You may be able to just get a new radio receiver.

 

[upndown]

Pics of your opener etc would help. A lot has changed in 18 years. Even of you find radio controls, which you probably can, the opener is still 18 years old! Those radio controls won't work on a new unit, a waste of money IMHO. Time for an upgrade.

 

[AP514]

agreed more INFO needed

 

[Redwolf947]

Did you maybe install new light bulbs or fluorescent fixtures (new balast) in that area? The new Style bulbs may be interfering with your signal. I cant think of what the new style are called...
Just a guess..

 

[Nimh]

I just had something similar happen and it came down to the LED bulbs I had just recently installed in our 8 year old Chamberlain door opener.

It would work great when I came home at night (lights not active) unless I was shortly behind my wife's arrival (lights still on). I had to get out of the car and use the remote in the morning when departing also. I had just added a wireless audio system to the garage, so I started eliminating things one by one. The bulbs were it.

I followed some threads around here that discussed the more expensive LED bulbs do not create so much RF interference, but some reported that even neighboring LED landscaping lights were causing intermittent problems with the garage door.

 

[shross]

Haven't changed a thing, including any light bulbs. One of the remotes is an OEM that my wife uses. Mine is integrated into the rear view mirror of my car. We haven't changed anything, including cars. I'm thinking one of my neighbours has some new equipment. Perhaps I just try new DIN settings and see if that fixes things.