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Default Garage Door Opener Range.

On 2014-05-07, Jim Thompson wrote:
This new, very well-insulated, foil-backed, house has one drawback...
the garage door opener range with the garage door closed is only about
20'

Any ideas on how I could extend that range?


Buy a second receiver and wire it into the button curcuit and place it
in a non-sheielded location. (bare receivers are available for use on
electric gates etc)

Put a better antenna on your remote, *

Use some UHF coax to move the reveiver antenna to a better location. *

(*) probably void the warranty

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umop apisdn


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