Question:
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.....
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?
Answer:
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.
The controller plugs into a wall outlet. It is hard to see, but my picture
on ebay shows the two prongs for the electrical outlet. The controller is
the box on the left and the two prongs are on top. I believe the two wires
only carry the control signal (low voltage), but I don't really know how the
thing works. If you want, you might call Chamberlain at 800-528-9131 and
ask them. The model number for the kit is 955CB.
