project....
our recent project? after successfully converting the bathroom's exhaust fan's switch to be a timer one - we attempted to work on our garage for ...
our garage door opener's light does not work, so the whole garage is in its dark-dark-darkness whenever we parked our car ... which, is kind of "dangerous". For the fact that our garage door opener is "born" in 1976, we cannot find anything from anywhere to "fix it".... so... we came up with this idea of....
converting the light switch in the garage to be motion-sensor... so it'll turn on by itself ! cool idea, we thought - but after changing the switch to be one that is motion-sensor, we got sparkles :D hehe.. scared us ....
so we gave up that idea, and trying to convert it back to its original form - but it was not easy... the original switch is old old old... and can't be put back again. So, we end up going to HD and get a new one... and put it back on. since the original switch is a 3-way switch, i had to do some research on the web (thanks for euqus for his info...) .. and after 2 nites of attempt [ plus a 7am visit to HD yesterday... ], we got everything working again!!!
so, the next step was ... what should we do then to fix our original problem?
after a lot of searches .... .. i was lucky enough to find a plug that can be controlled by my garage door opener remote, so *Cool*!!! So, everything is done now! I plug that into the wall plug of my garage, and plug a lamp in ... and now, whenever i use my remote to open the garage door, the light lights up!!!!
i'm all satisified now....
next project? it'll be the yard work. Thinking to trim one of the tree that is growing too close to our house...
our garage door opener's light does not work, so the whole garage is in its dark-dark-darkness whenever we parked our car ... which, is kind of "dangerous". For the fact that our garage door opener is "born" in 1976, we cannot find anything from anywhere to "fix it".... so... we came up with this idea of....
converting the light switch in the garage to be motion-sensor... so it'll turn on by itself ! cool idea, we thought - but after changing the switch to be one that is motion-sensor, we got sparkles :D hehe.. scared us ....
so we gave up that idea, and trying to convert it back to its original form - but it was not easy... the original switch is old old old... and can't be put back again. So, we end up going to HD and get a new one... and put it back on. since the original switch is a 3-way switch, i had to do some research on the web (thanks for euqus for his info...) .. and after 2 nites of attempt [ plus a 7am visit to HD yesterday... ], we got everything working again!!!
so, the next step was ... what should we do then to fix our original problem?
after a lot of searches .... .. i was lucky enough to find a plug that can be controlled by my garage door opener remote, so *Cool*!!! So, everything is done now! I plug that into the wall plug of my garage, and plug a lamp in ... and now, whenever i use my remote to open the garage door, the light lights up!!!!
i'm all satisified now....
next project? it'll be the yard work. Thinking to trim one of the tree that is growing too close to our house...
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