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Re: Dealing with garage doors?



Heu guy's
You can also use an voltage regulator (like transistor) to the exact voltage
ex  7809 is an 9 volt stabil regulator.
And it cost's less han 1 dollar.
Regards ,  Johnny G.
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From: Thomas Emberson <thomas@xxxxxxx>
To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: Dealing with garage doors?


> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Matt Knowles wrote:
>
> > If the transmitter doesn't work on 12v, then I would have just run it
off
> > of the regular battery and tucked the unit under the seat, running a
wire
> > up to the dash with a switch. A little soldiering is all it would take.
>
> Speaking of radioshack, if it runs under 12 volts you can probably get
> a regulator/diodes to do the trick. For that matter, for all the current
> the remote draws, you could just place the correct number of Si diodes
> in series before the power (.7V drop each)
>
>
> > I know OSH sells transmitters that are made to work with all units. You
> > might look into one of those rather than tampering with the one that
came
> > with your rental unit.
>
> In my complex, the garage door openers and the main gates work on
> serial numbers. So you have to program the remote into the gate/door.
> The apartment garage opener is not too bad to reprogramme, but
> obviously you might not have access to the main gate. YMMV
>
> Thomas (my friends call me Jerry)
>
>
>
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