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garage door opener - Ed Russo - 03-26-2005

OK here is my question. Is there anyway w can install a garage door opener into our center cosole. I would like to have one of the switches on the center cosole operate my garage door opener.



Any thoughts ?





Thanks'

Ed Russo

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garage door opener - Greimann - 03-26-2005

I think you should get another factory momentary switch like a sunroof switch. Add that to the console and tap into the garage remote with a couple of wires and hide the remote somewhere. Should be a snap.

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garage door opener - Ed Russo - 03-26-2005

[quote name='Greimann' date='Mar 26 2005, 02:10 PM']I think you should get another factory momentary switch like a sunroof switch. Add that to the console and tap into the garage remote with a couple of wires and hide the remote somewhere. Should be a snap.

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Sounds like a plan. Now I have another project. Thanks Dave.



Ed Russo

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garage door opener - EEZATOY - 03-27-2005

Another solution ( I think eric posted) was to hook it up to the flash to pass wiring and hide your remote in the engine bay - pull up to the garage flash your lights and the door goes up - pretty trick - I think they used a sears 12v opener.



Sam

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garage door opener - sat968 - 03-28-2005

http://65.61.16.109/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9620

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garage door opener - WYLDCTZ - 03-28-2005

Has anyone ever done the flash to pass mod on our cars? I'm interested in doing it, but the instructions are for a 996. Not sure if the wiring is the same in our cars?

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garage door opener - EEZATOY - 03-28-2005

Dave - oh great wiring schematics guru - do you have the chart that would show the flash vs constant on of the fog light switch, I would think you wouldn't want to have your opener on the whole time your fogs were in use (burn up you garage door opener?) - I'm assuming that the flash to pass light is the same as the fog?

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garage door opener - Greimann - 03-28-2005

The flask (ha, funny typo) to pass is not the same as the fog light. There are two bulbs in that housing. The one inside the round looking lense is the fog and the other one, inboard of that is the auxiliary high beam / flasH to pass.



Note that if you wire a garage door opener to the flash to pass, it will be on constantly with the high beams as well. If you drive a lot with high beams on, then I don't think you could actually burn out a solid state device like a garage door transmitter, but there is the risk of triggering your door unexpectedly.



Anyway, the wire to look for is the White / Green wire that leads to that light housing.



Diagram:

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garage door opener - rustech - 03-28-2005

Dave, what do you think of wiring it something like this?







edit: I guess I could have tide in the remote (resistor) feed after it goes through the highlight switch so the remote doesn't even have power until it needs it.

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garage door opener - Greimann - 03-30-2005

[quote name='rustech' date='Mar 28 2005, 01:23 PM']Dave, what do you think of wiring it something like this?



[edit: I guess I could have tide in the remote (resistor) feed after it goes through the highlight switch so the remote doesn't even have power until it needs it.

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That could work. Just to be clear, the wires that goes to the #86 pin doesn't actually contact the ground wire, that is just a coincidence of a quick sketch. Also, valuing the resistor to drop to 9V would require you to take measurments of the current draw of the garage transmittter and then running the calculation (stolen from my post about LED's):



R =(Vs -Vf) / (current in milliamps)*1000



Where:

R = resistance in ohms

Vs = supply voltage (in a car, use 13 volts)

Vf = Forward voltage of the LED. This information should be on the data sheet that comes with the LED

current = the rated draw in milliamps, again, from the data sheet



EXAMPLE: You have an LED that says the Vf is 1.5V and the draw is 20ma, what resistor is required to drive it when supply voltage is 13V?



R = (13 - 1.5) / 20 * 1000

R = 575 ohms

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garage door opener - rustech - 03-30-2005

[quote name='Greimann' date='Mar 30 2005, 08:14 AM']That could work. Just to be clear, the wires that goes to the #86 pin doesn't actually contact the ground wire, that is just a coincidence of a quick sketch.[/quote]



Thanks for the reply. I'm unclear on the statement above. Pin 86 on the relay is the negative coil contact in my sketch. Why does it not go to ground? I know it's messy sketch.

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garage door opener - Greimann - 03-30-2005

My mistake, I meant pin #30 and the remote switch.

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