How To Check Frequency Of Garage Door Opener

Next you will need to shut power to the garage off with your circuit breaker.

How to check frequency of garage door opener.

We just bought a house with old garage door openers and the previous owners had long since lost their remotes. First plug the garage door opener into an outlet in the house using an extension cord. Double check it to make sure it is correct. The purpose of this is to ensure that your garage door opener s frequency doesn t interfere with your neighbor s favorite radio station or the airplane flying overhead.

Test the operation of the garage door using the transmitter. Your garage door is likely using a frequency clustered around the 2 4 ghz band that s been designated the ism band otherwise known as the industrial scientific and. Next you ll test the range on your remote controls to see if it improves. Point your door opener remote toward the head receiver two feet or closer and press.

These dip pins frequencies operated in the 300 400 mhz range. This was accomplished by sliding each of the nine dip pins into matching position on the opener and the remotes. How to change the frequency for a garage door opener. The openers are old stanley v 76 models with 8 dip switches on the receiver.

If you got the dip switch positioning correct the garage door motor will turn on. Snap the cover back on the back of the transmitter. Press and hold this button.