Relay always working, device not w/relay
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Topic: Relay always working, device not w/relay
Posted By: lost01
Subject: Relay always working, device not w/relay
Date Posted: February 11, 2006 at 10:54 PM
I have a relay hooked up in my car as follows:
2-button remote (garage door remote), with 2 wires soldered onto the remote circuit board. Those 2 wires go to a momentary push button. So the remote can be hidden in the dash, and there is a button mounted that you press and it's the same as pressing the button on the remote.
Then the relay has +12v, my alarms trunk release aux output. Then 2 wires, that tap into each wire that goes to the button mounted on the dash.
Problem:
Every time I press the button in the dash, the garage door opens or closes. The led turns on, on the remote hidden behind the dash.
Every time I activate the trunk release on my clifford remote, the relay clicks, the led on the hidden remote turns on, but the garage door does not always move. I can hit the button mounted on the dash and it will work right then. But when using the alarms aux output, it only works every so often.
I can not figure out why. The hidden remote's led is lighting, so that's saying it's working, but the garage door doesn't move. Same remote, hooked directly up to a momentary push button works fine.
Any ideas?
Replies:
Posted By: lost01
Date Posted: February 11, 2006 at 10:58 PM
Before anyone says just use the button in the dash all the time. The only entrance to my garage is the garage door, and I have the dei garage door control, but that is not compatible with the responder remotes. And with the other remotes I had to many accidental openings, leaving the garage door open all day/night.
Posted By: hotwaterwizard
Date Posted: February 13, 2006 at 1:39 AM
Your garage remote is too close to your alarm and the frequencies are bleading over to each other. Try putting the garage door opener in the trunk with a wire running to the dash for the button instead.
------------- John DeRosa (Hotwaterwizard)
Stockton California
When in doubt, try it out !
Posted By: k.step
Date Posted: March 10, 2006 at 2:16 PM
Common problem between garage door openers and alarm system frequecies. Only definite problem solver is to change either or device freqency. ------------- K.Step
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