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Wireless remotes to add onto existing door openers??

MeanYellowZ

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Did a little googling and didn't come up with much. Got two older garage door openers, with switch panels on walls for open, close, and stop. Figure there has to be some sort of wireless deal out there so I can control these buttons via remote.....thoughts?? Can't be rocket science to have a module that converts the wireless signal into whatever voltage is required to trigger the opener....I'm hoping.
 
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robin1731

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When I moved into my house it had an older craftsman opener with no remotes. I took the serial and model number from the unit, went to Sears and found the remote that works with it. Just flip some dip switches to match it up. I would guess any of the major brands you could do the same thing. Find the model number then go to wherever they sell that brand and check on it.
 

SOA-Nova

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Look for some automobile alarm systems. I bought a 7 channel remote control system (main control brain with 2 remotes) a while back for a customer's car to control locking the doors, unlocking the doors, rolling the windows up and down, opening the trunk, and arming and disarming another brand alarm system.
I just looked at the control brain and remotes out in the garage but there was no brand or model info on it and I can't remember who I got it from but a google search should show up something. The 7 channel one I have on the remote there are only 4 buttons and by pushing buttons 1, 2, 3, or 4 you can activate outputs on the control brain and then by pushing buttons 1 and 2 together you get another channel output, push buttons 1 and 3 together for yet another channel and so on.

If you find a remote control alarm type system with enough outputs you could use one button to open your one garage door and another button to open your other door. Since the alarm is 12 volt based you could probably get by with a basic 110 volt AC to 12 volt DC adaptor by figuring out the amperage needs.

The old garage door open/close buttons mounted inside the garage on the wall were nothing more than a normally open set of contacts. Push the switch and the contact closed connecting the two wires run to it together. By using a 12 volt relay with the alarm, you can mimic the operation of the inside push button switch.

The nice thing with the small remotes for an alarm is you can keep them with the keys. If the car get's broken into they cannot take the remote off the visor and drive to your house to break into it and with them being with the key's if you get inside the house with a detached garage and forget to close the door you don't have to run back outside to close it.

Jim
 
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MeanYellowZ

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you're thinking along the same lines I am. These are not household style openers and never had remotes. They are commercial openers with three button switches like I picture here to operate them. Im not sure of the voltage running through these and I would need to find out if they merely close a contact to allow low voltage through to the door motor, or if the complete a higher volt circuit to operate the door. hmmm...

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6t7gto

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I hooked up remotes to a door with the same wall button.
It took two universal receivers to control it. one for up. one for down.
the remote has two buttons on it. one for up. one for down.
david

p.s. if they have small gauge wire ( 18 or 22 ga.) they are low voltage controls.
p.p.s.
i found this one that should work for you.
423LM-315 LiftMaster Three Channel Coaxial Receiver
http://www.aaadooropeners.com/receivers.htm
 
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