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TIFU installed LED bulbs in my Garage Door opener

TIFU installed LED bulbs in my Garage Door opener

Obligatory this didn’t happen today but sometime back in 2018.

Both bulbs had burnt out in my garage door opener sometime in the summer of  2018 so I replaced them with the spare LED bulbs I had on hand. Things were working Ok but the range wasn’t what it used to be. At that time I had also reprogrammed my remotes (didn’t want my soon to be ex to be able to access my home through the garage), added a wifi bridge to be able to open via app and have a log of when the garage opened, and installed a ring spotlight cam above my garage to also have a video record of who came and went through my garage.

I’m in central Canada and winter came and as it got colder my garage remote became less and less reliable. I tried disabling the wifi bridge and ring camera but that made no difference. I reprogrammed the remotes again and had no luck. I bought new remotes but it was also getting warmer again so my remote started working better again.

My opener needed a new part as the bit that drives the chain had broken, it took a few months for the part to come in and it was finally repaired this week reminding me of the issues that are exacerbated by cold weather. I decided to see what the chatbots could find (searching in Reddit over the years didn’t yield much but honestly I just got used to using the app) and low and behold it asked me “what kind of bulbs do you have” indicating that some LED bulbs cause interference.

I took the bulbs out and today in -5 degree Celsius the remote is working from the foot of the driveway.

Now the symptoms make sense. Like if I closed the door with the remote I couldn’t open it up again for a minute unless I was standing right up to the door or by the garage window. Basically when the lights would turn off the remote would work. It would work coming home because the lights were off.

TL;DR My garage hated LEDs more than I hated my ex.

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