Garage Door Opener wired into my bike - Pictures included

[keithdan]

I have been keeping my old garage door opener in a pocket of my jacket or in one of the front compartments but it never seemed convienient. Today I took one of the openers and found the switch on the inside and wired a regular push button switch into the place where the internal switch was. I then made a cover for the place where the CB radio(?) might have been. It is the sister to the place where you add air to the suspension, but on the other side. I am going to ask Carl Leo if he has one of these covers and may have to you a shorter button, but it is not a big deal to change that out.

The opener is placed behind that space and held in place with tie wraps for now.





The switch is the flat silver piece closest to you. I soldered on the other side of this but I also removed this switch since some solder went through and was making the opener run all of the time.




This is the backside of the switch, the three solder points.





I had to cut a little notch for the wire to go through. On the inside I had to trim another piece since I did not plan ahead and the cover would not go on straight with the new wire in the way.




I placed the first switch/button in the top right quadrant to allow placement of at least three more switches if needed.

Keithdan

[keithdan]

Only if my wife happens to be looking out the window when I get home...

[bikerking.biz]

Nice job!

Don't new openers work with flashing the headlight? Thought I heard that.

If the flashing of a headlight is all it took to open a garage door, the security wouldn't be worth a darn with them, anyone with a flashing light could enter your garage.

[bikerking.biz]

http://www.jpcycles.com/product/383-091 ... n=products

Of course it has security built in.

Nice job!

Don't new openers work with flashing the headlight? Thought I heard that.

If the flashing of a headlight is all it took to open a garage door, the security wouldn't be worth a darn with them, anyone with a flashing light could enter your garage.

It's really not using your flashing headlight, or any light, to open the door. It only uses the headlight switch, so it's a transmitter, not a flashing light to open. Still a nice idea!

[Chris near Kansas City]

Found this one 6 or 7 months ago. Seems to work pretty good. No wiring issues either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C-Bxifv2Pk