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First, I just realized that my 1996 Dodge Caravan works just fine. whew. I bought a suzuki 4x4 junker just in case.

Second the bad news. My garage door opener/motor stopped working.

Embedded chip? I'll start troubleshooting on Monday. I'm exhausted.

Happy New Year (I hope)

Keith

-- Keith Nealy (keithn@aloha.net), January 01, 2000

Answers

TEOTGAWKI [The End Of The Garage As We Know It]

-- CD (not@here.com), January 01, 2000.

Keith, We had a small issue at our power station on new years day which sounds similar to your garage door. For some reason our main gate wouldn't operate. The security system would recognise the swipe card, and release the magnetic lock on the gate, but the gate motor just wouldn't operate. Our technician simply powered down the PLC for two minutes, powered it up again, and everything worked fine. We haven't classified the cause of the fault as Y2K or anything else, as the gate motor and PLC was flooded during our recent floods.

However, try turning the power off to your garage for a minute or two, then turn it on again. It may work.

-- Malcolm Taylor (taylorm@es.co.nz), January 02, 2000.


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