help troubleshoot my garage door opener

[HomeBrewerDude]

This is a pretty new automatic door opener, installed in January. Genie, screw type drive, middle of the road model.

Two nights ago, the door started opening and closing on its own. Sometimes it would fully open/close, and sometimes it would start and reverse. This would happen erratically, but fairly frequently, averaging about once every 5-10 minutes, but sometimes 3 or 4 times in a single minute.

There does NOT appear to be a short in the wall switch circuit, and I have reset the RF frequencies once, and was still happening.

Radio Interference? what frequency to these things operate at?

Malfunction in the receiver?

Ghosts?

TIA

 

[Juno]

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
Ghosts?

:Q

is your garage haunted?

 

[Banana]

Garage door remote under sofa cushion?

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: jewno

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
Ghosts?

:Q

is your garage haunted?

when it first happend it really freaked me out... i was thinking someone had busted in my car which was parked in the driveway...so I went out there and of course saw nothing, then the door started moving again and it was spoooky.

 

[GasX]

Malicious neighnor?

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: Banana
Garage door remote under sofa cushion?

all remotes accounted for. but that's a very good hypothesis for our house.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
Malicious neighnor?

I scanned for snickering teenagers and saw none.

 

[blackdogdeek]

can you turn off the receiver and see if it still happens to make sure it isn't interference?

 

[RedCOMET]

Replace the motor unit thingy. The thing that has the motor and reciever on it. It could be a bad unit.

 

[Tremulant]

I'd change the codes again. And then if it's still not working, call the manufacturer, see what they say.

 

[Juice Box]

just change the code on it. There should be like 10 pins that can either be in the on/off position....any combination will work...just make sure your remote gets synced up with it too

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
can you turn off the receiver and see if it still happens to make sure it isn't interference?

i don't know... i'll check tonight.

Originally posted by: Tremulant
I'd change the codes again. And then if it's still not working, call the manufacturer, see what they say.

good advice. thanks.

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude

Originally posted by: Mwilding
Malicious neighnor?

I scanned for snickering teenagers and saw none.

teeheeheee

scamper...

 

[shekondar]

Is there a sensor that makes the door go back up if a light beam is broken? My door opener wasn't working right - when I closed it the door would close then go back up - turns out there was a leaf hanging off of a spider web on the inside of the door...when the leaf broke the beam the door would go back up.

 

[CVSiN]

your on someone elses frequency..
change the freq on your zapper and recievers.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: CVSiN
your on someone elses frequency..
change the freq on your zapper and recievers.

I have already reset the frequency once. Besides, this was happening at 1 am, and was so erratic I don't think it caused by someone else's garage door signal.

 

[kranky]

The printed circuit board on my old unit went bad and it did what yours is doing.

 

[Armitage]

Off topic a bit...
Back when I lived in LA there were these guys that built a system to brute force scan garage door codes. They would drive around neighborhoods transmitting and watching for doors to open, and then go clean them out.

 

[myusername]

Did you get your vasectomy at Sears?

 

[LordMorpheus]

You are getting signal from somewhere else. Maybe a neighbor, or some other device that uses a similiar frequency band. Ask your neighbors to come over and see if their clickers work on your garage. If they do, figure out how to change your clickers so it won't happen.

I've also heard that sunspots can cause this kind of thing *puts on tin foil hat*

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

I thought all new openers had secure frequencies that prevented the old tricks people used to scan and open doors to rob you?

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
Malicious neighnor?

Must resist...... parody thread....

"I hate my neighbor so I am opening and closing his garage door all night"

 

[boomerang]

If you can get just a logic board for that opener, get it. But Genie openers are throwaways. Your's may still be covered under warranty though.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

UPDATE: bad sender. waiting on new part. *yAwN*