Garage Door Remote Problems

[Grant H.]

Did you put LED's in the garage?

Mine screw with the garage door remotes frequently.

[sroz]

Did you put LED's in the garage?

Mine screw with the garage door remotes frequently.

Haha. Yeah, tell me about it. Checked for and removed all LEDs in the garage. The outdoor lights are LEDs. We turned them off, but the only way to remove them is to remove the fixtures. Those have been installed since last October and the problem just started a couple weeks ago.

[Ramsker]

Did you put LED's in the garage?

Mine screw with the garage door remotes frequently.

I had never imagined that LED's would be an issue, but we found out the hard way. Last year, I put LED bulbs in the openers themselves thinking that was smart . . . then one day all the remotes quit and the keypad stopped working. Did some online searches and sure enough, people were reporting the same thing. Replaced the bulbs with regular tough duty incandescents and got back to normal.

Was at the neighbor's the other day and he was showing me the new LED fixtures he just put in his garage . . . I laughed and told him to keep an eye out for random weirdness with his openers. He looked at me like I had 3 heads. Mine didn't act up for several months when I used the LED bulbs--then one day it all went screwy and that was that.