DIY Stealth Garage Door Opener Button

[IsLNdbOi]

PatrickJohnson, would either of these switches:

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/1838/

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/1909/


be too big for where you mounted your switch?

Also, can anyone here make one of those 12v to 3v converters?

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by IsLNdbOi

PatrickJohnson, would either of these switches:

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/1838/

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/1909/


be too big for where you mounted your switch?

Also, can anyone here make one of those 12v to 3v converters?

Here's an off the shelf 12V to 3V adapter:

http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a...ADAPTER/1.html

[IsLNdbOi]

Originally Posted by PatrickJohnson

those switches are fine in size, but they are on/off toggles, you need momentary switch

Cool. What about these?
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/6512/
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/6099/

Originally Posted by CTScott

Here's an off the shelf 12V to 3V adapter:

http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a...ADAPTER/1.html

Cool. How would I use that? It's kind of large. I'm guessing I'd have to gut it and set the switch to 3V then make the connection from one of the car's 12V power wires to the 3V battery receptacle on the garage door opener then just connect the same 12 power wire from the car to the 12V LED on the power switch to get the illumination.

Would a power wire going to one of the power door locks or window switches work with this?

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by IsLNdbOi

Cool. What about these?
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/6512/
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/6099/



Cool. How would I use that? It's kind of large. I'm guessing I'd have to gut it and set the switch to 3V then make the connection from one of the car's 12V power wires to the 3V battery receptacle on the garage door opener then just connect the same 12 power wire from the car to the 12V LED on the power switch to get the illumination.

Would a power wire going to one of the power door locks or window switches work with this?

Correct on the wiring of the power adapter. With the plastic removed, the circuit board would be very small.

Those switches would be fine.

You'd probably want to grab two separate power sources. Ignition switched power (or maybe dimmer output) for the LED and always on for the opener supply.

[PatrickJohnson]

Originally Posted by IsLNdbOi

Cool. What about these?
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/6512/
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/6099/

YES! Those will work and look great. You'll just have to run a little power to it to run the illumination. If you are going to use the spot i did to mount it, it should be easy to tap the illumination off the dimmer rheostat so that it brightens/dims with the other interior lights

Cool. How would I use that? It's kind of large. I'm guessing I'd have to gut it and set the switch to 3V then make the connection from one of the car's 12V power wires to the 3V battery receptacle on the garage door opener then just connect the same 12 power wire from the car to the 12V LED on the power switch to get the illumination.

Would a power wire going to one of the power door locks or window switches work with this?

this is a better (though more expensive) solution:
http://www.dimensionengineering.com/AnyVoltMicro.htm

but if i were to get the one CTScott posted, I would crack open the cig plug part (after switching it to 3 volts) and mount that board near the garage door opener board on the inside of the door. then I would run wires from the power points that went to the plug connections down to a +12v spot on the fuse block.

Then clip the wire part of the power board to a suitable length and wire it to the battery pads on the open remote board. make sure to remove the battery on the remote board, or else you will be sending 6 volts (2 3 volt supplies in parallel) and will likely mess up the opener.