On Monday, September 28, 2015 at 7:47:08 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 15:57:45 -0700, Don Y
wrote:
On 9/28/2015 3:07 PM, wrote:
I plan to install a momentary switch in one of the empty "knockouts" in
the car dash wired to the opener's xmtr with the "receiver" connected
to a light to illuminate the driveway. So, when backing into the
garage, at night, we'll be able to *see* the driveway (instead of
relying on the feeble backup lights on the car)
It is more complicated than that on the one I have. There is a slotted
wheel optical emitter that monitors motor movement and shuts it down
if it is not seeing pulses at the expected rate.
It is easier to just buy a separate GDO receiver. I got one on Ebay
for $10 or so, to use as the portable "next" button on my tiki bar MP3
player.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/next%20button.jpg
That picks a relay and makes the appropriate key on the keyboard card
that runs this
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/judybar.jpg
The whole thing runs on a PC using MPXPLAY a DOS application in DOXBOX
a W/XP application.
For your application, why not just add more lights to the light in the
opener?
Don't want lights going on just because the door is opened.
Consider daylight. Also, want to be able to light up the
driveway when the door is NOT being opened.
I figure I can add a switch in a dashboard knockout in the one car
with the old "remote" unit, program one of the extra "HomeLink" remote
buttons in the other car and wire a pushbutton to the "manual
open" contacts for a "wall switch" just inside the garage door.
My wife wants me to install "chase lights" in her dad's driveway
hooked to his opener.
I want to build a Cylon visor (that's actually functional as sunglasses)
along the same lines! Would be wicked cool at night!
You are better off simply finding a stand alone receiver. They usually
run on 24vac and it is easy to find relays they will pick.
A lot of newer cars already have the "remote" built in.
My wife's Lincoln will run up to 3 different doors.
When we had the "car hoppers" here (thieves) I built something similar
to what you want. I had almost 1000 wats of spotlights connected to a
2440 SSR that was tripped with a GDO receiver. The transmitter had a
little 12v relay in it, connected to the dome light of my car.
They caught the crooks before they came back here.
That would light you up.
Me and my brother installed a motion detector flood light for a friend who had thieves sneaking into his small apartment complex to steal whatever they could. He caught a couple of Negro men dressed in black walking through the parking lot one night and they had come over the barbed wire fence behind the apartments. We installed the motion detector flood lights on the back wall but also connected a 120 vac Edwards signal horn to them. The thing went off one night and the next day he found bloody shreds of cloth on the barbed wire. We also installed the same sort of thing under a friend's large open shed in his back yard because critters from a housing project two blocks away were coming over his fence to steal tools and material. We used a microwave motion detector made for automatic doors and added a low voltage power relay to switch on a pair of 500 watt halogen flood lights along with an Edwards signal horn. I believe it went off a few times before word got around the housing project. It would go off every year whenever a new class of thugs graduated. Those vermin are a persistent lot. ^_^
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