Owner's Manual For Old Sears Garage Door Opener?



Question:
I'm trying to get an owners manual for an old Sears garage door opener (model 139.653000), but Sears doesn't seem to have any means for acquiring one. Any suggestions? I'm specifically interested in finding out how to recode the external touchpad. It seems to be coded manually by switching wires on a wire block on the inside wall from the touchpad.

Answer:
Sounds like you have an older "Domino Keypad" (brand name) which is black w/ white buttons and is a separate part from your Sears opener. Therefore a Sears manual would not help. Doing a search for "domino keypad" I found the instructions for the newer style but not for the type you have, but the programming is very basic. I believe the common wire is white & marked & goes in the common block. You simply pick the numbered wires by the code you want to use & place them in order of the numbered blocks. Hence if you want code 2965, wire #2 goes in 1st block, w #9 2nd blk, w #6 3rd blk, & wire #5 in the 4th block. Certainly not rocket science but some thought they were as revolutionary as sliced bread when they were introduced. The wire going from the keypad inside the garage should be connected to the wire going to the opener w/ aliigator clips only & not connected securely. Therefore if someone took the keypad off of the wall the wires will disconnect & disable the keypad. Otherwise they could simply "read" your code & open the door. You might want to get a new style keypad or get a new receiver & wireless keypad that doesn't have this security issue.





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