Garage Door Opener

["Chao, Harvey" <harvey.chao@xxxxxxxx>]

Lane wrote:

>P.S. It's not really "hardwired", it still runs off the 9 volt.  If anyone
>who knows more about electricity than I do knows if I can somehow run it
off
>the car's 12 volt power and how I would go about doing that, let me know.
>TIA.

Actually, for as long as the battery in one of these things lasts (years and
years!!!) why bother?  

Although I haven't read how you installed yours, I modified my transmitter
with the smallest "earphone" jack I could find so that it is in parallel
with the original switch contacts.  I then wired a plug for this jack that
ends in a switch (obtained from a salvage yard) that is installed in an
existing spare switch location on my dashboard. [In this case, an E28 which
has a fader control on one side of the radio, and a blank "knock out" on the
other side which is where I installed the new switch so that it looks
"factory"].   The transmitter can then be tucked out of sight behind the
dash wherever convenient (or in my case in the glove box where the plug in
flash light would go).  With this arrangement, I can easily remove or
reinstall the transmitter from the car in about 10 seconds.

Harvey

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