The following is a simple "how-to" guide that should help in your installation of a garage door opener. |
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This is a real simple modification that will make things easy for you if you have a garage door opener and are sick of hastling with finding the remote or button. You can be as neat or sloppy as you want with this...I chose the following method. |
| 2. | You will need the following items to help with the installation: |
| * Male and female bullet connectors | |
| * 18ga electrical wire | |
| * Electrical Tape | |
| * Zip Ties | |
| * A low amperage push button | |
| * A drill | |
| * Needle nose pliers | |
| 3. | First get yourself a spare remote control for your garage door opener and open it up. Typically there is just one screw that holds the case together. |
| 4. | Now locate where the button is located on the circuit board. See the below photo for what mine looks like (Genie). |
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| 5. | On the other side of the circuit board there should be a solder bead on each side of the button. Shorting these together is what activates the opener. Test it out to make sure it's the correct beads by touching the ends of a short wire to them and the opener should activate (with a battery installed of course). |
| 6. | Now solder a short piece of wire to each of the solder
beads and route them outside the opener. Be careful not to overheat the circtuit board and
fry other components. Use a heat sink. On the ends of these wires crimp or solder a female
bullet connector. * Note: the reason I use bullet connectors at this point is to be able to easily disconnect the opener if needed. E.g. if you take your fairings off, etc. If you don't want to hastle with this just make sure the wires are long enough to reach their destination. |
| 7. | IF YOUR REMOTE RUNS ON BATTERY VOLTAGE THAT IS 12V
+/- 2V...read on. IF YOUR REMOTE RUNS ON BATTERY VOLTAGE THAT IS NOT CLOSE TO 12V (e.g. 6V)...just disregard this step and use your battery like normal. Now locate the battery terminals and solder a short piece of wire to each one and route them outside the opener. In my case I had to drill a small hole in the opener. Then crimp or solder a female bullet connector to each wire. See below photo. |
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| 8. | Now your remote is ready to be installed. |
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| 9. | Next you will want to determine the best location for the push button. I found a nice little place in the controls above the starter button. It took a little tweaking to get it to fit right but with a little patience and effort...anything is possible. |
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| 10. | Now find a place suitable to hold the remote. There is room under the seat or in the nose of the front fairing (on most bikes). I chose to tuck it away in the nose of the front fairing. |
| 11. | You will need to consider where the wires are that you will be splicing the battery power into. A +12V running light wire and ground will do the trick. |
| 12. | It's just a matter of running the wires to where they need to go and using ty-wraps and electrical tape to make is as clean as you want. |
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| 14. | Good luck and feel free to contact me if you need any help. |
