wiring help please
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Road Warrior
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wiring help please
Well I thought this seemed pretty straight forward but I guess I need some help. I want to wire my garage door opener up to my bike. I'm want to wire the power supply into my high beam. Well anyway my remote is 3 volt so I bought a 3.3 volt regulator. I wired it as it shows in my terrible drawing and thought that is all I needed to do. Well after checking it its showing 10 volts after the regulator. Of course I thought it was so straight forward that I wired it straight up to the garage door opener did a quick test touching the leads to my car battery and it opened the door right up. So I put it on the bike and I had nothing. So this is when I checked and found the voltage was at 10 volts. I think I burned up my remote. Did I wire it wrong?
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I kinda like your drawing. Don't like how it is wired though. Sounds like you burned it up. You say you have it wired to your highbeam? Hope you don't need to use it other than to open your garage.
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A lot of guys wire their remotes to the high beam with no problems. I talked to a guy I work with who knows electronics and it sounds like I would need to put on like four resistors. I just went the easy route and wired a button up to the remote and hid the remote inside my fairing with button mounted beside my cigarette lighter.
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Your input is normally much greater than 12v. The voltage regulator you used is not good for the input. That's why one guys said you would need to use more. I would use this. http://www.dimensionengineering.com/products/de-sw033
It's has up to a 30v input and will still output 3.3v
It's has up to a 30v input and will still output 3.3v
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Your input is normally much greater than 12v. The voltage regulator you used is not good for the input. That's why one guys said you would need to use more. I would use this. http://www.dimensionengineering.com/products/de-sw033
It's has up to a 30v input and will still output 3.3v
It's has up to a 30v input and will still output 3.3v
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12 v battery into reg output should measure 3.5 Dc volts output with no load. Anything else is wrong. Reg input power would be on the output side of high beam switch. Simple test is hook reg to stand alone battery & check output supply. Location of your transmitter, alternator, spark plug wires, these create RF signals because they are on the alternating side of the battery. IE your charging system to battery. A common mistake is to have the polarity connections wrong.
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