Garage Opener Remote Reciever

[hllon4whls]

In my 30+ year old home I have owned for 2 years, I have a mustard yellow nutone chain type garage door opener that opens my 16foot wooden garage door with no problems.

I replaced the original remote receiver with a genie intellicode box from either HD or lowes. That box lasted about 1.5 years. I have 2 intellicode remotes and a wireless keypad remote that I would like to keep.

Any recommendations on a genie remote opener that will last more than 1.5 years? When brand new, there is one transistor that was hot to the touch after powering the receiver on. That circuit has failed. As soon as I replaced that transistor (suspected failure point) all of the magic smoke came right back out.

I would like to keep my remotes if possible, which I think limits me to genie products. Any thoughts or suggestions?

I have written genie to get some feedback. The receiver is ACSR3G Type ERY

 

[Spam16v]

http://remotes4less.ecrater.com/p/2189134/genie-36163r-model-315390r2-dual

seem pretty inexpensive

 

[hllon4whls]

http://remotes4less.ecrater.com/p/2189134/genie-36163r-model-315390r2-dual

seem pretty inexpensive

They are cheap. I'm trying to get some feedback if they are value or garbage.

 

[MustangRick]

I bought one of those for my older genie, ordered it from Ebay and it came with transformer, wire and a new remote. Just wire it in and you now have intellicode and can use the current generation of Genie wireless. Ofcourse I still can't get my vehicles to sync with the Intellicode, I have to use the older remote to train it.

 

[hllon4whls]

I went ahead and purchased one of the receivers listed. Maybe the failure I had was a fluke. Should be here tomorrow. $45 shipped with receiver and remote from Amazon.

 

[hllon4whls]

So after days on and off trying to get this new receiver to work, it wouldn't. It wasn't a matter of reading the instructions or understanding what I was doing.

My garage door opener is 30+ years old. It is all mechanical. It has an internal 24v transformer that somehow keeps the motor turning until the limit switches kick in. I never did figure out that part, but I have proved it works that way.

That 24v and the 24v for the receiver didn't play nice together. The way the receiver was setup was the common for the 24v was also the common for the relay that opened the garage door.

I tried an external relay but that didn't work for me (think the relay was faulty). What I did to get it to work was unsolder the relay from the new reciever board. I isolated the common trigger from the 24v. That allowed me to mimic the action of the wall button that opens the door. The receiver has a multi layer board, so it took me a little while to trace out the leads, but with the relay contact sticking through the bottom of the board it was no big deal.

Anyway glad to have it done and working again. I guess I'll keep that old nutone garage door opener as long as she keeps chugging along.