Awesome! Thank you for watching Henry and Paula for leaving a comment!!!! Wont be at workbench con this year but if you make it out, hope you have a blast!!!
if my remote worked from a house away I'd be so glad and just leave it at that - these days I am having to be in the driveway before it works even after replacing batteries - gotta try this hack
@@WoodenCreationz cool. I was just saying because I don’t have anything metal on the outside of my garage. But i think that if I run a cable to the outside it should be a lot better that the 5” of cable it has right now.
I have been pissed off since I purchased the mighty Mule gate opener 10 plus years ago. the antenna was useless. NOW by pure accident I fixed my problem. I had added wire to my antenna and soldered it to my wire fence but that made it worse. I pulled the antenna out of the crimp connector and bent it into a vertical loop and forgot it, I was working on my gate when it started to open, my wife was 60 feet away opening and closing the gate, it never in all the time I had it worked so well. This is the original antenna and it didn't work when the wire was straight vertical or horizontal worth a damn. I am not gong to say it will work for you but it is worth a try. the only other thing is the tip of the wire antenna is bare about a quarter inch. I just went out side to see if the gate still opened. Both controllers opened the gate from 70 plus feet. this is at its extreme range, i had to try several times but it never even camec lose to opening at this distance.
You should have pre heated the steel and sanded it to solder to it. But for security reasons they keep the range lower. Also is your garage remote a dip switch remote
Boy, I just don't buy this at all! The transmitter uses a particular frequency, such as 443 mhz, and that frequency decides what length of antenna to use. You can't just attach the antenna to the longest wire or metal piece you can find be correct about the frequency. It may be possible that the metal you attached to is the exact correct length for the transmitter frequency resonation but the big problem I have is that you did not prove your fix. How? By simply disconnecting the wire at the screw and the going back to 3-5 houses away and showing that it did or did not work. Very sloppy work, my friend.
The homelink in my car already works farther than this. It works 3 houses away and our property is 2.5 acres with neighbors roughly the same size properties. Just a regular Chamberlain motor
The time and effort you put into this you could spend $30 and get the Wi-Fi phone adapter that works with 99% of garage door openers. then it would open it up anywhere in the world as long as you have a connection to the internet from your phone
I used 24 gauge alarm wire which worked great as it’s the same thickness as the antenna. I bought an actual antenna from amazon which is about 6” long. Now all works well from hundreds of feet away.
I had some serious cringing when i saw you bust out the welder. Why? Because steel flashing is almost always galvanized and if you don't know what the fumes from welding galvanized does to you, i'd advise you park that welder in your garage and don't touch it until you know the basics.
Andrew I appreciate your concerns. You are correct... Its best to avoid welding galvenized materials due to the zinc oxide fumes that can cause metal fume fever. Which makes you feel like you have the oh so nasty coronavirus. Pretty sure this metal ibeam (Lintel) above my garage was not hot dipped galvenized though due to it already rusting pretty good through the paint. A galvenized piece would take 35-50 years to show signs of rust. And my house is only a couple years old. And being they painted it another reason it would be odd.. So I'm pretty sure its steel. I started to scrape paint off to get a good ground so i could tack weld but then I realized I didn't have any matching paint... So I switched ideas and drilled it... Thanks for the warning though... I had gotten the lecture about 20 yrs ago from my old man about it... But hopefully someone will benefit from us discussing it. 👊🏻
LBCAndrew As a General Contractor I cringe when I see posts like this one. You have no idea what you are talking about. The steel LEDGER is mild steel and NOT galvanized , duh, it rusted........ Also, just so you know, flashing is THIN not 1/4" or thicker. The ledger is there to support the brick facings, nothing more. There is a header inside the wall that provides structural support for the rafters over the garage opening. Don't be smug and you won't get flamed. Using a screw was the best idea btw.
