Saturday, December 3, 2011

Garage Door

Recently, we moved to another home, unfortunately (or fortunately) the garage door does not work, we open it manually currently, we requested the house owner to fix it but they said that they tried many times but failed, so what does this mean for an EE lover?

An awesomeness of course, a new toy to play with, a new game to reverse engineering :)

I tried the manual button, the motor does work but the door does not move, I tried assisting it by giving it a push but no hope, so apparently, the gears are broken/loose etc a mechanical problem in short.

not only that, but also, we do not have the remote controller, so apparently I'll have to hack it to put my own wireless connection, later..

now lets start playing:


The box:


Now I need to remove the bottom to reach the mechanical problem and fix it, I had to use a lot of force to open these two blots on bottom:


notice how the spanner got bended in the image below



What about this dried-sanded grease:






overview of the inside, 
top right is the motor with three wires (I don't have experience with motors, so your help is apperciated here, the motor has three wires two of them are connected the big cylinder you can see on the top left [I guess a cap??!] and there is a third wire)
What is this motor? which type? what are the three wires?
Is it a capacitor really? why it is there?

top left a capacitor (I guess)
below it is the transformer
and on bottom the PCB
Wireless chip on right side of PCB
Connection Header on top of PCB


The circuit 





started labeling some wires


I then used WD-40 and sprayed on the screws to remove the PCB (Along with the transformer which is soldered to the PCB)



Now I need to remove wires, so I took note of all connections and labeled wires



Before that, I decided to test it, found that the motor is actually rotating as well as the output shaft
so, I reconnected it up again, but again it does not work!!!

conclusion: the mechanical assembly is having a problem which I cannot fix

repairing attempt Failed!

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