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| Ok I am so frustrated with this situation. We have two Craftsman 3/4 HP Garage Door Openers side by side for both vehicles and of course, two garage doors. Model 139.53990D
The units are less than a year old (purchased last February) Anyhow, the problem is I can use the keyless remotes if they are right under the opener units basically touching the hanging wire. But not at any other distance and this is intermittent. Some days I can use the remotes or keypad entry just fine and other days both do not work period. And this applies to both doors. It isn't one or the other but they both do the same thing. So if one doesn't work the other doesn't as well. If one works the other does too. I had Sears come out last week to fix the issue and the gentleman re-programmed the doors and they worked just fine for about 2 days. Well, now we are back to the same situation again! I did call Craftsman's technical support today and the customer rep thinks it is something that might be causing inteference with the wireless frequencies. I then went down that list of things he thought it might be i.e. unplug computer and wireless network, possibly shop lights in the garage, anything hanging in the way.. but it didn't make a difference at all. .. The Craftsman rep even said that he knew a man who had to have wiring replaced on his spark plugs because every time he would turn on his car it would interfere! ahhh! But this isn't my problem. He also had me unplug each unit separately and leave the other on to see if it was just one unit causing the problem and this also did not work. So I am scratching my head trying to figure out what I should do next...... Empty out the garage? the house? throw the garage doors in the garbage? By the way, I can push the button on the control console and it will open and close the garage just fine it is just the wireless things that do work efficiently. any help is much appreciated! thanks! reba |
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| The wall button is going to work no matter what because it is directly wired to the opener. I agree with the guy on the phone you must have outside interference coming from somewhere. Computers, cars lighting in the garage??? In extremely rare cases. I would talk to your neighbors and see if any of them might be having the same issue. It could be some construction going on in the area, a new cell phone tower near by, utility companies doing some work in the area. I have encountered each of these problems before. I had a guy tell me one time Mon-Fri his remotes had no range but Sat and Sun they were fine and it was because the telephone company was in the area working Mon-Fri and not on Sat and Sun. If none of these are the case, can you back track and think of when this problem first occured? Was there anything around that time that you bought new and put in the house or garage. Did you change cable companies or go to dish? I would start looking at those things first. If they worked fine since Feb. I would think there has to be some type of explanation especially since it affects both of them at the same time. Let me know if you find anything out, this is an interesting one. |
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- Posted by jasper60103 (My Page) on Sat, Jan 19, 08 at 12:02
| This is interesting. I had a situation where I installed a 2nd GDO, and the remote would work intermittently as you described. The first GDO had been there for a few years and worked just fine. Btw, they were both Genies. I called customer support. They told me it could be interference as well, but the first GDO still works! So they sent out a new remote, but that didn't solve the problem. The chances of getting 2 bad GDOs is pretty slim I think, but you never know. I would ask customer support to have the service guy replace the receiver board. Its worth a try anyway. |
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| thanks for the suggestions! I am really not sure of anything specific that I had done different at this time other than buying a laptop and using it wireless. Now I did try turning it off but as of right now the remotes are working today (didn't yesterday) and the computer is not interfering. When I talked to the rep he said that the likely hood of both openers going bad at the same time everytime would be next to impossible and if that was the case then I should play the lottery! lol! I will check into getting the receiver boards replaced. Just doesn't seem like that is it. I am going to try keeping our motion detector lights outside off and see if that makes a difference. thanks again for all the suggestions! |
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| Ahah....the wireless laptop. You turned that off, but did you turn off the router that sends the wireless signals? |
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| actually yes! I did unplug the router also. |
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| i have an old craftsman and recently the remotes stopped working on 2 diffrent occassion when the remotes wouldnt work the light on the switch kept flashing plz help |
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- Posted by Lisa(lisaf@reeceandnichols.com) onTue, Dec 7, 10 at 0:50
| I am having the same problem! Both of my garage door openers wireless remotes all quit working at the same time. Including the built in remote in my car. Same problem, you can hold the remote a couple feet from the antenna and it works fine. I checked the built in diagnostic flash on the opener itself, but appears everything is fine. Does anyone have any answers for me??? Thanks in advance!! |
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- Posted by alan_s_thefirst (My Page) on Tue, Dec 7, 10 at 4:00
| Did you also unplug your cordless phone? Many houses have a lot of wireless stuff now. Any alarm system that might have wireless devices? Do ask the neighbours if they're having problems too. |
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- Posted by utxrwilson (My Page) on Thu, Jul 7, 11 at 9:09
| Okay, both garage door remotes stopped working yesterday as did the remotes of five other homes in the neighborhood. Surely, this isn't due to a laptop or a router as all of these homes have been using those before and certainly didn't start yesterday. Very frustrating. |
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- Posted by don_1_2006 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 7, 11 at 9:31
| Could be this: Garage door remote not working? The Pentagon may be to blame. I'm not sure the $US60 is realistic. |
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| Do you have new, alkaline batteries in the remotes? |
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