garage door opener

bugsiegel

bugsiegel

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My garage door opener won't work when my truck is running. 6vlt pos ground.
I've tried two different remotes for the same garage door and the same issue.
I can be 10 feet away from the door and it won't work on the visor or in my hand ,even sporadic when I hold it out of the window. But as soon as I shut the engine down it works fine.
 
Just shows how dirty the electrical systems were on these cars. Can you imagine the electronics today ( phones , gps etc) with 300,000 to 400,000 vehicles in a single city with generators ??? WOW nothing would work, no phones , no tv , no computers , nothing????
I have days that i wish those days would come back, until i get to my air conditioned vehicle to drive home and watch tv while getting my email and ordering parts......
Maybe we could just live in the old days one or two days a month or something....
 
You probably have solid core plug wires and they are emitting radio signals that overpower your transmitter. I used to run those wires in my Corvette and the radio became an audible tachometer rather than an entertainment device. Radio suppression wires might do the trick for you
 
bugsiegel said:
My garage door opener won't work when my truck is running. 6vlt pos ground.
I've tried two different remotes for the same garage door and the same issue.
I can be 10 feet away from the door and it won't work on the visor or in my hand ,even sporadic when I hold it out of the window. But as soon as I shut the engine down it works fine.
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Had the exact same problem. Mine was from using solid core plug wires. I probably could have lived with it but my all electric gauges didn't work either. I switched to suppression wires and it solved both problems.
 
open garage door, start truck back out hold hand out window with remote close door.
pull in garage, shut truck off, get out and hit remote close door...lol
 
I'm not sure what caused it,but,years ago,as I cranked my 56 merc up a long grade,towards my friends home,he was always on the way out of the house when I got there.Turned out,they got interference,and noise on their t.v.every time I came up the hill.
 
pete is probably right I had a set of flathead jacks pricey solid core plug wires in my 32 with a 8ba flathead and put a set of stewart warnerelectric speedometer and tach. the tach worked fine but the speedometer was go erratic and could never be able to set it .went around and around with the techs at stewart warner with a list of all sorts of things to In which nothing cured it needle would bounce and not smooth out and if I would stop and just sit there and idel and the odometerevery 30 seconds would increse a tenth of a mile without moving the car. talked to another guage vendor at a show who seem to be up on cures and told him what my problem and he said take those solid core wires out and put silicone type in and he was right and everything was fine .speedometer pulser was picing up a signal fom the wires and telling the speedometer I was moving go figure. more than likely you opener is picing up the signal if your using solid core wires. arent todays modern electronics great......
 
This forum is amazing, I learn something every time I read the input of all of you. I think you answered a problem I had with a digital panel I put in my 48 DeSoto quite some time ago. I don't have the problem now but always wondered what caused it. Thank you for clearing up a mystery.
Gary.
 
Try wrapping aluminum foil around the remote leaving only the end that is pointed to the garage unit open. G.M.
 
peewee2you open garage door, start truck back out hold hand out window with remote close door.
pull in garage, shut truck off, get out and hit remote close door...lol
This doesn't work. I have to get out and shut the door with the wall button or shut the engine.
I though I lost this thread, I forgot to subscribe.
It's crazy but I thing we've found the issue.
Thanks guys
 
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