Garage Door Opener
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From: Wichita, KS
RE: Garage Door Opener
ORIGINAL: saweet96
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Sacrificing an old remote, a little wire and some cheap labor (mine) and it worked.
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Sacrificing an old remote, a little wire and some cheap labor (mine) and it worked.
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From: Illinois
RE: Garage Door Opener
I use the Harley remote. It is wired to the bike's power and to the high beam switch. There is a seperate reciever in my garage that is hard wired to my garage door opener. When you cycle the switch, it sends a signal to the reciever inside the garage then transfers that signal to the garage door opener. Works very well, but is rather expensive and a pita to install.
I used an opener in my windshielf pouch of my Heritage for three years and thought that was ok. My two pouch set up on my SG is so small that the garage door opener took up one whole pouch. I decided to drop a few hundred bucks in the Harley set up and I do not regret it. My driveway is a 600 ft. long rock driveway and keeping both hands on the bars when I am coming home at the end of the day with a few drinks in me is a big plus.
Dennis
I used an opener in my windshielf pouch of my Heritage for three years and thought that was ok. My two pouch set up on my SG is so small that the garage door opener took up one whole pouch. I decided to drop a few hundred bucks in the Harley set up and I do not regret it. My driveway is a 600 ft. long rock driveway and keeping both hands on the bars when I am coming home at the end of the day with a few drinks in me is a big plus.
Dennis
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RE: Garage Door Opener
ORIGINAL: drrandall1
Never even heard of this. Is this sold at the Stealership?
Never even heard of this. Is this sold at the Stealership?
I have a Sears opener so I bought one of their key fob-sized openers for $40, popped the back off, and found the two solder connections that, when shorted together, made the door open/close. I driilled an access hole in the back cover of the fob for small doorbell wire, soldered about 8" of wire to the solder connections, ran it out the hole then closed up the fob. I then connected the free end of the wire to a black miniature momentary pushbutton switch from Radio Shack. The button is a little smaller than a pencil eraser and the whole button assembly is about 1/4". Most people don't even notice it sitting there between my gauges.
I mounted the the fob to the inside of the tach/speedo housing with a dab of silicone and put the pushbutton between the speedo and tach. So for well under $50 I can open my garage door from 2 blocks away by pushing a very conveniently located button, even with gloves on.
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From: Omaha Nebraska
RE: Garage Door Opener
I too used a extra remote that I had and did the extra wiring and a button. For those that are interested in doing this, do a search and you will find several posts on how this is done. I may have $5.00 invested in my set up.
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RE: Garage Door Opener
Yep.. it's a repost.
I did mine different, because I like to use my hi-beam and not wear the battery out on the garage door opener. I got the auxilary switch housing (70213-02B, 70255-02B) that attaches to the switch housing. I ran a wire from the housing to my left side cover, and attached my garage door open there. It's a clean install, and I can get to the remote easy to change the battery, when needed. On my wife's Deluxe, I got the same auxilary switch housing, used the top slot for the garage door opener, and put adigital clock (62949-02) in the bottom 2 slots. Looks REAL good, and functions flawlessly.
I did mine different, because I like to use my hi-beam and not wear the battery out on the garage door opener. I got the auxilary switch housing (70213-02B, 70255-02B) that attaches to the switch housing. I ran a wire from the housing to my left side cover, and attached my garage door open there. It's a clean install, and I can get to the remote easy to change the battery, when needed. On my wife's Deluxe, I got the same auxilary switch housing, used the top slot for the garage door opener, and put adigital clock (62949-02) in the bottom 2 slots. Looks REAL good, and functions flawlessly.
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From: Auburn, Indiana
RE: Garage Door Opener
I got a small remote for my RG, its the size of a key fob, I just took some velcro and put in up on the fairing out of the way, but close enogh to reach it, plus I can take it off and take it with be when I need to. $20.00 invested, and about 30 sec. to install.
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RE: Garage Door Opener
my install with PICS.... https://www.hdforums.com/m_3274613/m...tm.htm#3274613
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RE: Garage Door Opener
This wasn't hard to do as I am not a mechanic by any means. You are on your own though to try this.You need to find out if your garage door remote is 12v, most newer ones are. Once I pulled my fairing off, I pulled the headlight connector off the back of the light. I opened the back of this female connector to theheadlightand used a 12v tester to see which contact was the high beam wire. Then I attached a wire to that contact and closed up the lid on the connector. I ran that wire to the appropriate positive contact where the 12v battery of the remote would have been attached and solder it in place. Then I soldered a wire from the negative side where the battery would have been on the remote to the ground on the cigarette plug. Then I took the remoteand located the four contacts behind the button that pushes to open the door. I connected two wires to two of the contacts (test by touching the two wires together to see if the door opens) to act as the "jumper." Itested the whole set up by turning on the high beam and watching my garage door open.I put the remote back together with a little hole in the two halves so that the two small wires that were attached can come through and I velcroed the remote to the top of the radio. Put the fairing back on and you're done!