1995blacktattop
11-05-2009, 03:57 PM
a couple of months ago my dad woke up to find the garage door wide open and thought maybe i forgot to shut it. i was 99% sure i did and then when it wouldn't close with the remote i knew something was up. i was able to get it working somehow and it seemed like the problem went away until today when it happened again. i didn't even open the garage door at all yesterday so i know it has nothing to do with that. i shut it and about 10 minutes later it opened up again on its own :wtf:
i think maybe it could have something to do with the remote that is sitting in my center console in my car. i took the car out for a drive with the garage door closed and came back and it was still closed. i decided to take the battery out of the remote and see what happened. it didn't open for a few hours while the battery was out. now here's my question. could a dying battery cause the garage door to open on its own? the 9V battery in the remote was dated best used by 2006. so i took the battery out and installed a fresh one and so far so good. i hope the remote isn't bad because it's a genie remote with 9 toggle switches inside. this thing predates those intelicode remotes by a good few years since i'm pretty sure the opener is the same one that was there when we bought this house in 1988.
I think i can get a replacement remote but its like $30-$40 and i don't want to spend that kind of money to find out that isn't the problem. apparently they went from a 9 dip switch to a 12 dip switch and then finally to the intellicode around 1998 so this thing is petty ancient :lol:
has anyone else had issues like this? apparently genie openers operate around 390hz or so.
i think maybe it could have something to do with the remote that is sitting in my center console in my car. i took the car out for a drive with the garage door closed and came back and it was still closed. i decided to take the battery out of the remote and see what happened. it didn't open for a few hours while the battery was out. now here's my question. could a dying battery cause the garage door to open on its own? the 9V battery in the remote was dated best used by 2006. so i took the battery out and installed a fresh one and so far so good. i hope the remote isn't bad because it's a genie remote with 9 toggle switches inside. this thing predates those intelicode remotes by a good few years since i'm pretty sure the opener is the same one that was there when we bought this house in 1988.
I think i can get a replacement remote but its like $30-$40 and i don't want to spend that kind of money to find out that isn't the problem. apparently they went from a 9 dip switch to a 12 dip switch and then finally to the intellicode around 1998 so this thing is petty ancient :lol:
has anyone else had issues like this? apparently genie openers operate around 390hz or so.