Question:
My house came with an obsolete garage door opener that used a fixed
frequency code set by dip switches. I bought a kit made by Chamberlain
which uses secure rolling codes that cannot be grabbed by thieves. It
worked great except the garage door opener broke after 3 months. I
installed a new opener with built-in rolling codes, so I'm selling the
Chamberlain kit.
Answer:
-What kind of range did you have on it when it was attached to your
garage? what brand of garage door opener did you attach it to?
i have an old sears with the set codes and i need another remote, but
they dont sell them any more, will it work there?
-The range was about 50 feet, and it was attached to an old Genie garage door
opener. It should work on any opener with 2 control wires.
-Where does this reciver get it power from? do you get the power from the
garage door opener via the two bell wires or is it the kind that plugs
into an outlet? the receiver i have gets its power from the gar.door
opener, no other power to the receiver other that that.......... tried a
genie receiver and 2 remotes from home depot and the door just kept
going up and down.
-did you do anything to enlarge the range to get it to work?
i bought one of those sears receivers with 2 remotes and put it on my
old sears opener and the range was about 2 feet outside the garage door.
checked the batteries inside the mini remotes and they were ok, so i
brought it back to sears.. on the old receiver i did increase the range
when the antenna fell off the pc board, just put a insulated elect. wire
onto the contact and drilled hole in bottom of rec. case and made a pig
tail out of 16 inches of wire to about 5 inches, really worked good, but
still need more remotes as this is the old frequency and i dont want to
build one..
