How-To: Garage Door Opener Using High Beam Switch
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How-To: Garage Door Opener Using High Beam Switch - 3/15/2008 5:20:59 PM
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axsys
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Ok guys, here is how to wire most garage door openers to work with most bikes using the high beam switch to activate the opener. Here is what you need:
-Garage door opener (obviously)
-Regular 12v relay (one that can be soldered to a circuit board) LINK
-16g or so wire
-Pre-punched circuit board LINK
-1K uf capacitor LINK
-3 10K resistors LINK
-Soldering iron and solder
-Wire cutters and strippers
-Heat shrink or electric tape
Ok, so the way this works is pretty simple. We build a momentary relay, so that when you turn your high beams on it activates your garage door opener for a second. This way, when you are riding around with your high beam on, your garage door opener is not constantly being pushed down and wasting battery. Im not going to go into specifics on how to actually solder and make circuits, but rather just show you how to set up this circuit. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask here or PM me. Oh yea, and I'm not responsible for any damage you do to your bike. If you don't feel comfortable soldering, you might want to skip this.
To start, make sure everything will be compatible with your bike and opener. With the opener, you have to take the case off and find the button on the circuit board that opens your door. We solder 2 wires to each side of the button contacts so that we can activate the opener by touching the two wires together. If you can get this far, you should be good to go.
Now, your bike has to have a switched 12v for the high beams in order for it to work correctly. It should work with all F4is, and any other bike with a switched 12v high beam wire. On the F4i, you will need to take off your headlight to solder in an extra wire to use. On the wiring harness on the bike (make sure you solder to the one on the bike, not on the headlights), right where the headlight connects with that big grey plug, you will need to find the WHITE wire, which is the switched 12v for the high beam (this will probably be different on other bikes, so check in your service manual to find out what color yours is). Now be careful here, because you have to cut this wire a few inches from the harness, and if you mess up you won't be able to turn on your high beams any more. Strip both ends of the cut part about 1/4 of an inch, and solder them back together with another wire soldered to the joint (don't forget heatshrink if youre gonna use it). So, you should have your wire back together where you cut it, with the addition of another wire soldered to the same joint. Make sure you use a wire that is long enough to reach wherever you want to mount your opener (I put it under the seat). Finish it with heatshrink or electrical tape and put your headlight back on.
Now we build the circuit. I got the following diagram from http://www.the12volt.com/relays/page5.asp:
(If you dont know what a relay does or how it works, read about them HERE)
Now, the only change that i made was that i used 3 10k resistors in parallel instead of just 1. This gave me about 1 second that the garage door opener would be on. Here is what mine looks like:
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< Message edited by axsys -- 3/15/2008 11:24:15 PM >
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RE: How-To: Garage Door Opener Using High Beam Switch - 3/15/2008 5:46:32 PM
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Cletus
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AXSYS,
Really good writeup. I like the use of the light switch. I have mine in my inside pillar, but your location and use of the headlight switch is a clever idea. I was wondering when I did mine if you could use the blinker push button to do this same thing, I didnt do alot of research, just found it easier to use a MOM push button in the pillar. Just wondering if you gave any thought to other switches?
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RE: How-To: Garage Door Opener Using High Beam Switch - 3/20/2008 2:11:56 PM
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skubysnak
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I wish I was good at electrical stuff. Using velcro, I just stuck my mini garage door opener behind the gauge cluster. I just stick my finger in the back and bingo...
Remote - $18, Velco - $1.50: Set up takes about 10 seconds.
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RE: This Is What I Did... - 3/25/2008 5:33:09 PM
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Onarom
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Thank you axsys and wjerlinger!
This worked great on my 1000RR and I had fun making it. It even impressed my wife (who normally could care less about electronics and motorcycles).
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RE: This Is What I Did... - 3/27/2008 4:52:02 PM
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amanc96
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Just wanted to say thanks! I got mine done on my 94 F2 last weekend. For anyone that wants to do this w/ their F2, it's the Blue wire....
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RE: This Is What I Did... - 3/29/2008 9:58:26 PM
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amanc96
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Yeah, mine acts the same way. If i turn the high beams on and off fast, then the garage door opener only goes off once. If I turn the high beams on and let it sit for 3 secs or more and then turn the high beams off, the garage door opener goes of 2 times, opening and closing.
I'm thinking this has something to do with the capcitor, when you pull the switched 12v line high and the capacitor charging up to 12v within the x amount of time, your garage door opener will go off, then when you turn the high beams off and pulling the switch 12v line low, the relay sees 12v applied again(since the capacitor is at 12v), and will once again flip the relay and telling the garage door opener to go off again...
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RE: This Is What I Did... - 5/9/2008 2:25:05 PM
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Onarom
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quote:
ORIGINAL: axsys
No problem guys! I'm glad you got this done successfully on your bikes. Out of curiosity, does everyone else garage door opener work like mine where it activates when you turn the switch on and then once again when you turn the switch off?
I also used the + and - from the high beam to power my 12v remote so it only opens when I hit the Hi-Beam switch to "on". The rest of the time, my remote isn't getting power even if the relay is being tripped.
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RE: This Is What I Did... - 7/1/2008 9:50:24 AM
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sousa3819
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great mod...i tried to do something like this but for all of you who are just as lazy as me i just ripped open my opener took out the circuit board duct taped the hell out of it and double stick taped it to the inside of one of my plastice pieces....:) works like a charm!
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