Hey just wanted to share my garage door controller mod with you guys...
I soldered two wires to the contacts inside my garage remote that activates the door, easy to find just find where the button hits the circut board then flip it over and you will see the soldered contacts, just take a screw driver and "jump" the contacts and your garage door should open, if it does just solder your two wires to them. doesn't matter which wire goes where. Easy on the heat from your soldering iron so you don't damage your board.
Then get a momentary switch of your choice and connect your two wires to it and mount where you like!
Then just stuff your remote opener where you can hide it (can also take out the circut board from the opener case if space is an issue) just make sure it is easily accessible for battery changes!
cool never even thought of doing something like that. looks a lot better than the big thing hanging on the visor and falling off all the time. i wonder if there would be any possible way to hard wire it into the fuse box so you dont have do mess with batteries on the remote anymore. im not good with electrical but hopefully someone else could chime in on doing that. its cool though. thanks for the write-up.
Its possible to run the opener off of the truck bad but you need more than a few resistors you needs a voltage regulator that goes real low....you guys got me thinking, get the visor home link one and take it apart and run the switch under the rubber from the stock home link one?
I wired my control right into the 12v system, and have had no problems for 10 years. My control and button are mounted in the little black plastic panel on the drivers door at the back side of the mirror mount. I also mounted it "hot wired so I can open the garage at any time, know one would ever notice the button. During my current "truck remodel" I had a custom carling "Garage" switch made but decided not to use it because it was quite noticable.
You just gave me the greatest idea, I have 08 door panels on my 05 but no power mirrors, so i have an empty black bezel where the switch goes, I am just going to mount my garage door o pener under that so just the 2 buttons are showing.
My opener had a small 12v battery. Even if it were operated off of 1.5, 3, or 9 volts, all it takes is a couple of resitors inline to drop the voltage, still very simple.
I forget which forum, but there's a link of retrofitting an older Explorer Homelink button set into his OBS. Pretty neat,
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