Replacing a Battery on a Genie Garage Door Opener
The Genie company makes a wide selection of automatic garage door openers that you can order direct from them or purchase at your local home store. The most important part of the automatic garage door system is the door opener. This is the battery operated transmitter you carry on your keychain or in your car to signal the opener to raise the door. You will need to change the battery on occasion, and the process is easy. Whether you have the keychain style or the regular style transmitter, the battery replacement process is the same. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
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Turn the transmitter face down (button side down).
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Place your thumb on the arrow imprinted on the battery cover set into the back face of the transmitter. Press down and slide the cover off the back (sliding it in the direction indicated by the arrow).
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Remove the battery by pulling up on the small ribbon sticking out from beneath it. This will pull the battery up out of the compartment. If you have a keychain transmitter, you can then simply remove the cylindrical style battery. If you have a standard transmitter, you will have to pull the battery snap cap connector off the top of the 9 volt battery before removing it.
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Install the new battery. Snap the battery snap cap connector onto the top of the new 9 volt battery (the wider snap goes on the wider battery post) if you have a standard transmitter. Push the cylindrical 12 volt battery (Gp23A 12 volt keychain transmitters use 12 volts, not 9 volts, like the standard transmitter) into the battery compartment as you would put a standard AA battery in a device, with the flat end towards the spring in the compartment.
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Replace the battery cover by sliding it back over the battery until it clicks into place.
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Tips & Warnings
Keep a replacement battery in the glove compartment of your car. This way, should the battery in your transmitter fail, you will have a replacement right on hand.
Don't leave a battery in a spare transmitter that you are not using. If the battery leaks, it could destroy the transmitter.
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