Garage Door Opener

Cruzin · Feb 22, 2009

I have noticed a few of you have done this mood:

Door Opener

What exactly does this button attach to, to open the garage door??

I figured as long as the FJR is in numerous pieces laying around the garage now is a good time to do it

SilverHound · Feb 22, 2009

I did a variation of this but instead of using that micro switch I used a bigger weatherproof momentary switch where the heated grip controller would have gone (I don't intend to ever use heated grips). Anyhow in either case, the switch goes to the switch outputs of the garage door opener that you plan to sacrifice for this mod.

In my case I found a mini-one that used a 12V battery and soldered wires to both the switch points and the battery points on the circuit board. Then I connected those wires to the bike power (Fuzeblock in my case) and the switch in the appropriate manner. The circuit board is pretty simple so it's fairly easy to determine which solder points are for the switch. If in doubt, just test which one's you think they are with a jumper wire before soldering the leads on. They are usually directly behind the button/switch on the opener. The battery points are a no brainer.

The garage door opener is located under my seat.

Here's my switch (black one on the left).

Bad picture of GD opener location (see green arrow)

Rolavine · Feb 22, 2009

Man, I just keep mine in the side zip pocket of my tank bag, you people really have way too much time on your hands don't ya? I figure having to unzip the bag and push the button costs me about 10 minutes a year for my 200 trips, and it would take me at least 4 hours to put in the switch, so my break even point is in 24 years!

But, I do admire your bull goose crazy and bow to your serious case of insanity, I mean after all, that four hours lost would take away valuable time from my endless quest to find the perfect helmet, now that is worth a man month a year at least, lol. I wonder if I could put a switch on my helmets, hummmmm?

ponyfool · Feb 22, 2009

When I did mine, I simply zip tied the button of the garage remote so it was always pushed, then put in a thin piece of plastic between the battery contact and the battery similar to how many accessories are shipped with batteries installed. I then used the switch to bridge that gap by connecting both switch leads to a connector blade, then putting a blade on both sides of the plastic barrier. When the switch is pushed, the battery is connected. Because the zip tie has the button already pushed, the garage door activates.

On my Bandit, I went a bit more complicated. I used a 9v voltage regulator, and used the bike's accessory power for the switch. This way, the button only worked when the bike was on. But, that proved to be a bit of a pain since I never parked the bike outside my house to worry about it.

LDRydr · Feb 22, 2009

You could go with an Autoswitch. Personally, I used an H-D one I had from a previous bike. It's mounted under the seat tray.

ahchiu · Feb 22, 2009

I did this mod and to answer your question, you wire the switch with a small gauge wire to the opener, take apart the opener you wil find a small button

1/16" x 1/16" on the back test with a wire to make connection to the switch, when you find two spots solder the wires to the board, make sure you get the momentary ON switch and not the momentary OFF, they both look the same, the only problem with this set up for me is when I turn my bars to the left my switch hits my tank bag and sets off the opener, it's only a problem when I'm in my garage

Fred W · Feb 22, 2009

I just velcroed a garage door remote onto the inside of the glove box lid. I pull up to the door, put the bike in neutral, pop-open the glove box door and press the button. What could be simpler?

The only other thing I keep in the glove box is the registration and insurance cards.

SilverHound · Feb 22, 2009

You guys just using your regular garage door opener are missing the point. It's FUN to wire stuff up to the scoot. :yahoo:

Fred W said:
I just velcroed a garage door remote onto the inside of the glove box lid. I pull up to the door, put the bike in neutral, pop-open the glove box door and press the button. What could be simpler?

Um...not to have to stop, put the bike in neutral, open the glove box, press the button, put the bike in gear, pull into the garage, press button and close the glove box. :blink:

How about, while approaching the garage, remove hand from left grip, press button, return hand to grip and cruise on into open garage?

Fred W · Feb 22, 2009

SilverHound said:
You guys just using your regular garage door opener are missing the point. It's FUN to wire stuff up to the scoot. :yahoo:

Fred W said:

I just velcroed a garage door remote onto the inside of the glove box lid. I pull up to the door, put the bike in neutral, pop-open the glove box door and press the button. What could be simpler?

Click to expand...

Um...not to have to stop, put the bike in neutral, open the glove box, press the button, close the glove box, put the bike in gear and pull into the garage. :blink:

How about, while approaching the garage, remove hand from left grip, press button, return hand to grip and cruise on into open garage?

Well, I actually have snicked it into neutral and popped open the glove box while still rolling before, but I would never recommend anyone ever try this at home as there is a possibility you might lose control and drop your heavy FJR in your own driveway.

But my POS garage door opener doesn't reach more than about 30-40 feet anyway, so it's not like I could open it while I'm riding up the street.

Besides, I'm saving that ultra choice, back of the pod switch location for a Bike-to-bike PTT switch install.

FJRChris · Feb 22, 2009

LDRydr said:
You could go with an Autoswitch. Personally, I used an H-D one I had from a previous bike. It's mounted under the seat tray.

+1 with the H-D kit, Took one off a Harley I sold, works great on the FJR.

ahchiu · Feb 22, 2009

SilverHound said:
You guys just using your regular garage door opener are missing the point. It's FUN to wire stuff up to the scoot. :yahoo:

Fred W said:

I just velcroed a garage door remote onto the inside of the glove box lid. I pull up to the door, put the bike in neutral, pop-open the glove box door and press the button. What could be simpler?

Click to expand...

Um...not to have to stop, put the bike in neutral, open the glove box, press the button, put the bike in gear, pull into the garage, press button and close the glove box. :blink:

How about, while approaching the garage, remove hand from left grip, press button, return hand to grip and cruise on into open garage?

+1 on that, I used to have it in the glove box but with winter gloves it takes a little longer to open the box, and why stop, I now ride up as soon as I have sight of the garage I push and it's open, and like you sais it's fun to add this to the bike, but to each is own, some riders won't use a GPS, but I love the GPS with Bluetooth with XM Bike-Bike, video set up with 4 bullet camera with switch box to pick the camera I want to record from and vibrating seat (just kidding)

DeweyIsgod · Feb 22, 2009

I bought this key-fob opener for less than $30...not as much fun installing, but it does move between bike easily.

Makuna · Feb 22, 2009

There are also garage door openers that are meant to trigger from the change of the high beems from off to on. No new switch, powered from high beem and triggered from it. Done this with my old Jeep but not sure yet if I will do it with FJR.

SPORT · Feb 22, 2009

I drilled a hole in the left control housing, installed a 1/4" PTT switch (Exactly like your link shows and purchased from Radio Shack), ran the wire in the existing wire sheath, velcro'd a garage door opener on the underside of the left fairing, soldered the wires to the GD opener circuit board and viola!

Big Shasta · Feb 22, 2009

SPORT said:
I drilled a hole in the left control housing, installed a 1/4" PTT switch (Exactly like your link shows and purchased from Radio Shack), ran the wire in the existing wire sheath, velcro'd a garage door opener on the underside of the left fairing, soldered the wires to the GD opener circuit board and viola!

That sounds excellent. I've wired my garage door opener into the switch the previous owner used on the dashboard for activating helmet to hemlet coms. Only issue is it is a toggle switch. I'd change to regular Radio Shack Pushbutton but shouldn't it be waterproof? I've been trying to find a Pushbutton "Push on" 1/4" black weatherproof switch and I can't find anything, closests I've come is a 1/2" switch at boat store but I can't drill that big of a hole in the dashboard lip.

Foxhuntr · Feb 23, 2009

Fred W said:
I just velcroed a garage door remote onto the inside of the glove box lid. I pull up to the door, put the bike in neutral, pop-open the glove box door and press the button. What could be simpler?
The only other thing I keep in the glove box is the registration and insurance cards.

+1. Works fine for me too.

Fred W · Feb 23, 2009

DeweyIsgod said:
I bought this key-fob opener for less than $30...not as much fun installing, but it does move between bike easily.

Hey, cool! My (POS) garage door opener is a Chamberlain. I wonder if that one will broadcast any further than the ones that came with it (big rectangular box made for windshield visors). I'll bet it won't. I think I need to run a (better) antenna from the opener itself...

Makuna said:
There are also garage door openers that are meant to trigger from the change of the high beems from off to on. No new switch, powered from high beem and triggered from it. Done this with my old Jeep but not sure yet if I will do it with FJR.

You mean like the one in post #5 of this thread?

Cruzin · Feb 23, 2009

Thanks for all the input, I think the idea of the velcroed one in the glovebox sounds about the easiest. I don't have to put mine in neutral to open the box anyway B) See how bored I get that might be a next winter project, to wire it in.

SPORT · Feb 23, 2009

Big Shasta said:
I'd change to regular Radio Shack Pushbutton but shouldn't it be waterproof?

Never had a problem with it. The voltage is too low to be a problem and never had a problem with rust. It's been on several years and through many rain storms!

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