This may not be appropriate for this site or this section of the site so forgive me in advance if it doesn't belong here. We have a unique problem that for the life of my electronics background, doesn't make sense but its real and strange at the same time... and it's driving us bonkers!
I have two garage door openers as I have two separate garage doors. The remotes mysteriously do not work sometimes.... BOTH of them. Our alternatives are to unlock the house front door and go through the house to the garage and push the manual button. It doesn't matter which car, or remote we use, they all work or don't work at the same time (with either door).
So we were thinking it was rather odd, but both garage door openers are failing at the same time. Or something worse.
Then I realized last night that the problems occur mostly at night or specifically between dusk and dawn. Around the time that my landscape lighting comes on. The system has been in use for a couple of years but just recently I replaced all of the quartz hallogen bulbs with LED to conserve energy and cut down on bulb replacement. All of the bulbs were purchased over the internet from a variety of sources (ebay). Some of the spot lights are up to 6 watts of consumed powere so I suspect there is some circuitry involved internally. BUT it appears that once I've swapped out all of the bulbs and the system comes on at dusk, the garage door opener remotes just do not want to work. Freaky - almost like the aluminum foil hat type of thing. Can anyone explain this to me or am I thinking something that just can't happen this way.
Any advice would help - even those that think I must be smoking something (I'm not... but hey... it's still advice), Thanks, Jerome B.
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