Electronic Interference
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2022 12:30 am
This forum is OFF TOPIC, right? Well this is as off topic as it gets.
Have been changing out to LEDs where I can. Got around to putting an LED bulb into the garage door opener at my house.
Suddenly the wife (who has the only car that gets to live in the garage) was unable to open the garage door from outside. Messing with it, it appeared the radio signal’s range had shortened to about 1/3 of what it was previously. If I stood with my nose to the garage door and pressed the remote, it would sometimes open. Any further back, no.
Searched Duck Duck Go for “garage door range suddenly shortened” and got a hit. Answer: Don’t use an LED in a garage door opener, it interferes with the radio signal reception. I swapped the front bulb to a regular incan, and got my remote range back. Oddly, the BACK bulb of the opener can have an LED, but not the front bulb.
This has nothing to do with knives, other than I am making sheaths for knives in said garage. But I hope this will help someone, somewhere, who is searching for the same answer...!
Have been changing out to LEDs where I can. Got around to putting an LED bulb into the garage door opener at my house.
Suddenly the wife (who has the only car that gets to live in the garage) was unable to open the garage door from outside. Messing with it, it appeared the radio signal’s range had shortened to about 1/3 of what it was previously. If I stood with my nose to the garage door and pressed the remote, it would sometimes open. Any further back, no.
Searched Duck Duck Go for “garage door range suddenly shortened” and got a hit. Answer: Don’t use an LED in a garage door opener, it interferes with the radio signal reception. I swapped the front bulb to a regular incan, and got my remote range back. Oddly, the BACK bulb of the opener can have an LED, but not the front bulb.
This has nothing to do with knives, other than I am making sheaths for knives in said garage. But I hope this will help someone, somewhere, who is searching for the same answer...!