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- From: gls@windmill.ATT.COM (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
- Subject: garage opener transmitter
- Organization: Save the Dodoes Foundation
- Distribution: na
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:54:16 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.215416.11014@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- Sender: gls@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
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- When I bought my house 2 years ago, I installed a garage door
- opener that was left behind by the sellers, who had bought it
- shortly after they bought the house, intending to install it when
- they got around to it....
-
- The opener and switch still work fine, but the transmitter is burnt
- out. Being 10 years old, it is no longer being made, and it uses an
- obsolete protocol. Sears Roebuck sells a matching receiver and
- transmitter, but the receiver requires an electrical outlet. My
- garage isn't wired; the old receiver was powered by the control line
- to the opener.
-
- Having an outlet installed in the garage would be expensive -- can
- anybody suggest a cheaper alternative?
-
- -:-
- BOSWELL: I doubt, Sir, whether there are many happy people here.
-
- JOHNSON: Yes, Sir, there are many happy people here. There are
- many who are watching hundreds, and who think hundreds
- are watching them.
-
- --James Boswell, _Life of Samuel Johnson_
- --
- Col. G. L. Sicherman
- gls@windmill.att.COM
-