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Re: Garage Door Openers

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From: Ploni Almoni
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1989 20:24
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Justin - the DIP switches set in a code for modulating the carrier, and 
the codes in the transmitter and the receiver MUST match.  Genie has had 
two different systems of setting codes in the past 10-15 years.
  
The first uses strips of punched paper/plastic with sets of holes.  They 
are usually sold in sets of three - one for the receiver and two for two 
transmitters.  From your description, you don't have that type.
  
The other type which you appear to have is the one where you set a series 
of DIP switches in a pattern.  Pull the cover of your receiver - the box 
with the 12" wire hanging from it.  If there is a row of DIP switches, 
copy down the pattern, and then try it in your transmitter.  Since there 
can be four different ways of "reading" the pattern, you may have to try 
it four times, unless the switches have LEGIBLE numbers - then you only 
have to try it twice, since you don't know whether "down" corresponds to 
"on" or "off".
  
Hope that this can help. By the way, Genie is a particular brand - 
others may be different -- if you have a different number of switches in 
the receiver and transmitter -- you know that you have two different 
models or brands or both.
  
If all else fails, call a garage door company - they have all the right stuff.

Good Luck              -=Ploni=-
  
  



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From: Ploni.Almoni@mailcom.FIDONET.ORG (Ploni Almoni)
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Subject: Re: Garage Door Openers
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