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Re: Control garage lights with door opener?



"Eric" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Has anyone ever come up with a good way to link overhead lights in a garage to
> a garage door opener?
>
> I'm getting tired of replacing bulbs in my (cheesy, vibrating a lot) door
> openers, when there are perfectly good lights already built-in to the garage.
>
> Has anyone ever come up with a clean way to control the garage lights off a
> GDO?
>
> One solution that AFAIK doesn't exist (or am I wrong?) would be a wireless
> X-10 transmitter that would plug into a light socket.  Sending the "off"
> command could be a little tricky, but it could use charge stored in a cap or
> something.
>
> Eric Law

You could run a wire from the bulb socket of the opener to the coil of a 110V
relay, and wire the relay N.O. contact in parallel with the light switch.

Bob




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