I'm reproducing below I sent to Linear Corporation. They do not have the device I need. The letter explains it but I just thought of some other ramifications that I'll address below:
Greetings:
I'm in a wheelchair and my company thoughtfully provided a remote control to open gates and doors where I work. I was also carrying around a much larger garage door for entry at home. Then I realized that a two position switch might consolidate things. I found one of your devices small enough for a key ring and this worked flawlessly once I matched the DIP switches to the individual devices.
Now technology has caught up with me. We had to replace our garage door opener with a newer model and my device no longer worked. I soon discovered why: The new opener has 12 DIP switches but my model has two banks of 10. Now I need one bank of 10 switches for the doors at work (I certainly have no way to convert the various doors there to 12 DIP switches) and a bank of 12 switches for my home garage door. Again, rather than carry two devices, do you make a key ring device with both a bank of 10 DIP switches and a bank of 12 switches? Please reply to this email so I can make a purchase if you can solve my problem or tell me where to turn. Thank you.
Pat H. Mooney
alternate email: phmooney@hotmail.com
It's now occurred to me that the problem may not be the arrangement of DIP switches but the frequencies used to operate the devices, i, e, the new garage door may operate on a different frequency than the old, which tallied with the frequency used by the doors at my job. If these no longer match, a single device is not practical unless it can generate each frequency.
Can any of you folks who build their own setups shed any enlightenment on this issue or point me to other sources for info?
Thanks!
PatH
Greetings:
I'm in a wheelchair and my company thoughtfully provided a remote control to open gates and doors where I work. I was also carrying around a much larger garage door for entry at home. Then I realized that a two position switch might consolidate things. I found one of your devices small enough for a key ring and this worked flawlessly once I matched the DIP switches to the individual devices.
Now technology has caught up with me. We had to replace our garage door opener with a newer model and my device no longer worked. I soon discovered why: The new opener has 12 DIP switches but my model has two banks of 10. Now I need one bank of 10 switches for the doors at work (I certainly have no way to convert the various doors there to 12 DIP switches) and a bank of 12 switches for my home garage door. Again, rather than carry two devices, do you make a key ring device with both a bank of 10 DIP switches and a bank of 12 switches? Please reply to this email so I can make a purchase if you can solve my problem or tell me where to turn. Thank you.
Pat H. Mooney
alternate email: phmooney@hotmail.com
It's now occurred to me that the problem may not be the arrangement of DIP switches but the frequencies used to operate the devices, i, e, the new garage door may operate on a different frequency than the old, which tallied with the frequency used by the doors at my job. If these no longer match, a single device is not practical unless it can generate each frequency.
Can any of you folks who build their own setups shed any enlightenment on this issue or point me to other sources for info?
Thanks!
PatH
