garage door opener

egbinor · Jun 1, 2016

Any ideas?? Helping my youngest daughter with two young kids get into a house. (she's paying child support to worthless piece s... husband, long story) Anyway...garage door opener is an old (1980's) Cambridge that works great but there is no remote. Can't buy a remote because it is too old. I've tryed a couple of universals and no luck. I have a wireless remote 110V thing we use for outdoor Christmas lights and am trying out how to adapt it to push one of the buttons to complete the circuit ??. I've got 24 and 16 volt transformers but am about stumpted... Too stubborn to give up, any electrical whizzes out there. 78 year old tired truck mechanic.. EGBinOR Thanks in advance for any help!!

wisbaker · Jun 1, 2016

Most of your big box home improvement stores sell a universal kit that has a transmitter AND receiver. Plug the receiver into 110 Volt, run a wire to the opener (same place the open/close button hooks up) and program them to like each other.

JF in MI · Jun 1, 2016

This is what you need. I have several of these and they work great. You just need to add a 12 volt power supply like an old phone charger. The ones I got came with their own charger but I didn't look enough. You can find them as a complete kit but just need to research.
Poke here

RWT · Jun 1, 2016

You say it was made in the 80's. I've got one that I THINK is an 83 and it is new enough to use modern opener remote systems.

I don't know the year on this for sure but I believe it to be right on the line between old an new.

This one triggers by shorting two terminals together. It's be a while since I looked but I think power is feed out one terminal and there was current limiting resistor to limit the current through a switch. I don't know how the older systems trigger. I just know it is different.

Mine is no new than 85. I thought this might help.

RT

Stephen Newell · Jun 1, 2016

If all else fails a new opener isn't very expensive.

egbinor · Jun 1, 2016

Your sure this will work with anything? I'd enclose pictures of this thing but it's 70 miles away

504 · Jun 1, 2016

The three openers I have you just hold the button on the opene, and key the remote. I am using a remote that has the foil that you have to poke holes in, and it works fine on two different doors.

bjr · Jun 2, 2016

I can't help with opener remote. I seen garage door and had to look. I ran away from tryin' to help a friend fix a Genie opener after I read the reviews on Genie. Apparently the only fix is to buy and install a different brand of opener. There isn't any real suppport of those doors. Just another "throw away item". bjr

Bob · Jun 2, 2016

NO need to reinvent the wheel here! Sears and others have just what you need.

There's a bunch on ebay starting at $33.79.
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