Wall Mount Garage Door Opener Install - Chamberlain RJO70

today we're going to install our garage door opener on our new insulated garage door we chose a different style of garage door opener it actually mounts on the wall and it calls itself a next generation garage door door opener chamberlain rj070 i think this is going to be interesting because it's such a different style it's unique from all the garage door openers that i've ever seen in the past let's get started so first i'll just show you the components as they came out of the box this was a layer on top of the box this is the main opener over here we've got the wall mount receiver the remote looks like the battery for battery backup i really didn't need the battery backup but this particular one is when i got wireless access i couldn't seem to find it without battery backup here's the wires to the sensors the safety sensors across the bottom and this is the most interesting feature on the side of the opener right here you've got this piece of pipe this little collar is what joins this piece of pipe with the pipe of my garage door so we just put this on the wall connect this up tighten it up and go sounds simple right [Laughter] the main reason to use this type of an opener is so that we don't have anything hanging down in the middle of our garage door so right out there in the middle where the typical door opener hangs down i won't have to have anything and and i have a low enough ceiling and i'm lifting stuff around here all the time on the forks it's always kind of an irritant even the the garage door tracks themselves are an irritant you know that would be an advantage to a roll-up door that rolls into a little ball at the top but you know garage doors well cheaper and easier maybe next time the first step is to mount this little bracket two 10 32 screws i'm going to tighten them to where i feel a little bit of snug this here i want to still be able to slide that bracket the next step is to put this collar on to this end of the pipe three-eighths wrench here like i say the collar has two different sizes so it's obvious which one to use and i did check our pipe on our garage door is the right diameter i don't know what you would do if your pipe wasn't the right diameter i'd say this thing weighs about eight or ten pounds it's really not very heavy now when we get up here you can actually see the prep work that i've already done i put an outlet up here i ran these two low voltage wires for the sensors below and that's duplicate wire they sent wire for that in the box but i don't intend to use their wire because i ran it behind the wall so i'll have to do some sort of a splice next to the floor so on this step what it told me to do was to connect this onto the pipe first thing it did mention a minimum distance for this pipe here to be from the wall it said had to be a two and a half inch center from the wall or a little bit more well mine was i think three and a piece three and a half maybe so i think i'm going to be fine there now that's interesting how far it'll go on there i never really thought about it being able to go through that collar you know the pipe's a lot longer than that but i think it makes sense for me to bring that in like that might as well keep it as compact as possible why would i want the door opener to be level if the pipe across here is not level seems to me like i would want it to be perpendicular to the pipe but i think that's how i'm going to mount i can kind of tell when i'm putting stress on that pipe it suggests now that i drill holes for these lag bolts that i'm going to put in but i found when i was putting in the lag bolts for the garage door that i didn't need to drill holes it works fine through this press wood and it'll be going right into the 6x6 is behind it and with the drill i can do it without holes no worries i'm using an impact driver it doesn't matter what brand you use this one happens to be the master force from menards not sponsored and i'm using a little adapter here it's hex on this end and it's got a 3 8 drive socket chuck on the other i'm going to put this extension on there and allow me to reach in there nicely now we can move those if we need to the next step is to tighten these set screws right here and then i brought a little three-eighths wrench this pipe doesn't have a really thick wall i wouldn't want to get too aggressive on tighten these on the other hand it's going to have a good bit of stress it's where all the power is going to be to open the door i'm going to try to get this about the same distance from the wall on top and bottom and then i'm going to tighten up these little 5 16 screws in this mounting bracket so it doesn't slide in and out not sure how much to put on those probably not too much hey if this is your first time seeing anything on our channel we usually talk about tractors but one of our side topics is storage sheds barns improvements that we've done to our facilities to better store our tractors so that kind of gives us a little bit of a crossover into some other items like installing your garage door opener likewise if you're used to seeing tractors on our channel all the time you're probably wondering why we're talking about garage door openers well that's it so i thought this was worthwhile because this is a very unique garage door opener at least for me um they've probably been out for several years but i think they're becoming more popular it is more expensive this one's about hundred dollars in comparison to 200 or less for for a real simplistic regular chain drive or belt drive center mount garage door opener this one does have wi-fi battery backup so it's got the highest end features but still pretty expensive this is not sponsored at all but i will put it on my amazon store if you want to if you want to find it there amazon.com slash tractor time with tim okay the next step is attaching the emergency release rope i guess i just need it long enough we can both reach it but hey with battery backup we should never need this right i'll leave the extra rope for now because i don't know how long we're really going to want it the next piece we're going to install is the power door lock first thing i do is attach that template now let me show you the door lock this is a door lock right here and it's going to attach via bolts that got embedded nuts there and then i assume that it's going to power on that rod and i have to drill a hole so it'll mount right there and i'll run it through we have to drill three holes here two of them are 5 16 and one of them is three quarters use a little cutting oil here if i can make it hit the right spot you don't really need to spin a steel cutting bit very fast just going to make them get hot that's my two 5 16ths i hope they're close enough to where i can use them now for the three quarter inch hole i'm going to use a stepper bit i bought a pretty good quality stepper bit because i have to do a good bit of drilling into steel for a lot of our projects i have found this to be a much easier way to drill into steel doesn't look that much easier oh this is fabulous oh really it may not look easy to you but this is going fabulous there's a three-quarter inch hole they have a very flat head on them with this phillips drive the point is to be able to keep them out of the way of the track be interesting to see if they hit oh i can't do it now that looks good the only problem with this is it seems like it's going to be kind of in the way that sticks right out at me here one thing i liked about this door was that it was all way up there out of my way and now i've got this piece here right in my way maybe i should have put it up higher but it actually suggested that i go all the way down to the second roller you can't see it from there but it works beautifully i originally thought i would put the door controller over here by the power sliding door the power sliding door is really cool if you haven't seen that you can go back to our older episode it's probably over a year ago now but it's a slider a power slider meant for horizontal sliding doors up to 24 feet wide each and then you can pair them for a 48 foot opening maybe even bigger by now i don't know it allows you to be able to open your door say from your combine or your big tractor and drive right on in it's a pretty good solution for an ag situation it's worth going into checking it out but i guess what i'm going to do is install this controller over here closer to the door and the reason for that is that i have to run a wire from here up to the door and i hate to have it running all the way across there i tried to have this all thought through and have those wires all behind the wall but i didn't get everything thought of oh look at that it even holds itself up so now i'm going to run that wire from the control panel up here to the actual opener they said it had to be within 10 foot of the door but the amount of wire they gave us betrays that well this little connectors are really easy to use i just take a tip of a small screwdriver and push that in and that allows the wire to be inserted and then when i turn loose of it it grabs it tight now this control here goes in the first two there's the red wire and the white wire this is an interesting piece this they're calling the cable tension monitor so this is going to rub against that cable and if the cable actually gets some slack in it it will allow this thing to collapse and when it collapses i doubt the door opener will work so the door opener can only work when this cable is tight so we have to mount right up here it should hold it open it's really quite simple in here it's just a little contact switch as long as it's open it'll allow it to go so if it ever closes it won't i'm running this door sensor cable sensor wire right around behind the unit right up into this same control area okay i believe these both go into the green areas here it's green stripe one going here and then i just push in right there insert the cable and then i let up on it christy we should have painted these walls before we started putting all this stuff up here i guess i didn't realize how much stuff there was it says that light's already pre-programmed to work with this door opener so no wires required between there these sensors are pretty standard they're like any other sensors on any garage door there's a carriage bolt slides in like that a wing nut here so that you can adjust these anytime if you happen to bump them i'll tighten them up for here for now here it's really got a lot of angle adjustment in case everything's not perfect these clips they clip right onto the door track supposed to be a maximum of six inches off the ground that that works well for me because i don't want them to be very high off the ground because if i tell the door to shut sometimes i want to step out over the beam don't tell anyone yeah okay [Laughter] so we'll put this one on the other side and then i've got the existing wire running through but maybe not long enough on the other end so i may have to splice a little bit we'll see how that goes i'll have to cut this one to splice in on this end these low voltage wires that i've already ran is going to serve to get this signal up to the opener and they have a red wire and a white wire in them so on the other end here i have a white wire and a black stripe wire so i'll just connect the white to the white and the red to the black stripe okay i've spliced this wire together and taped it together right there i'm going to staple this up do the same thing on the other side and if necessary do the same thing at the top where my wires were a little bit short and we'll come back together when i'm ready for the next step so i've got it all wired up now i'll show you what i did on both ends at the bottom i finished those splices got the sensors pointed at each other roughly i really didn't do much special there and then i moved over here i ran the lock cable all the way up this is the only one that actually had a factory fitting on the end of it so i actually had to stuff all the extra cable there was probably 25 feet of cable i don't know a lot of cable stuffed it all behind the unit up there i left a little extra wire here so it looks a little cluttered but it's really not that bad each of the wires has a color-coded connector to go into you'll see that i've plugged it in now just so you can see the light i'm going to unplug it again and plug it back in the light is quite bright it is yes so it'll stay on for a couple minutes and then it eventually goes off next step connect to the wi-fi the first step of connecting to the wi-fi is to download the app onto your phone in my case i had a prior version of the app had already been signed up for their myq website or whatever so i had forgotten my password you know how that goes and the app had been updated so i had to update that app once i got the up-to-date app i figured out how to add a device to my system the first thing it requested me to do was to identify which controller i had it showed me i think four different pictures and i identified the one i had then i flip up this little flap here and it asked me to press the learn button then it asked me if i had heard a beep well i did not so it said you know go back and try the next step so i it told me then to go to the main unit to unplug it plug it in and press the learn button there so this is the learn button it asked me to press right here and as soon as i press that button it asks to use my camera the app did and it wanted me to take a picture of my serial number as soon as i took that picture and it saw the serial number it was able to get the wi-fi connected ask me which wi-fi network of mine that i want to connect to i only have one and the connection went smoothly from there but we still don't have the door programmed yet we don't know what the maximum travel is either way so we have to do that next i went to the quick start guide and there was no information on that but it did recommend that i go to the manual i didn't even know i had a manual and i dug around and found another manual that does have some more information on that oh one other thing that wasn't mentioned anywhere in the quick start was how to install the battery and i didn't show you that either the battery they mentioned in the parts list but they didn't show when to install it or where to install it but it's right behind this cover here there's a red and black terminal on the battery and a red and black cable that plugged directly into those terminals it was trivial but it's right here to adjust the travel press and hold the adjustment button that's right here in the middle okay until you hear a beep and the up button is flashing press and hold the up button until the door is in the desired up position oops christy and i worked with this for quite a while probably half an hour 45 minutes and we could not get the door to move at all i was to the point of saying that maybe we had a bad motor because we rechecked all of our wiring we knew we had done that right or we were reasonably sure we had done that right when we went to set the distance of travel we couldn't get the door to move at all when i would press the upward arrow to try to start the the travel setting the motor would hump for just one or two seconds and not do anything now early on i had disconnected this i had pulled this down the emergency release so that i could move the door by hand and just get it arranged the way we wanted on a traditional door you can run the opener end to end and it will re-engage again you actually see the chain move or you can kind of even do that manually sometimes you can you can make that well this is all internal and and i didn't really understand what was going on when we called the support guy it turns out what you need to do to get this to re-engage is to pull down on it harder and it was so hard that i wasn't willing to do that we'd actually read that in the instructions and christy and i were debating about it but it you have to pull down really hard like i don't know 25 30 pounds of force maybe a little bit more enough that i'm thinking this doesn't feel right and then you hear it click and it re-engages you know it's engaged when you cannot lift the door because of the opener keeping it closed so to adjust the travel distance you press the middle button here that's called the adjustment button then you press the up arrow because it starts flashing the up arrow tells it to go up and you hold that button until it gets to wherever you want it in the top position you let off of that you press the middle button again that switches it to the lower and then you press the down arrow take it all the way down until you're ready for it to be stopped let off press that middle button again and go up again when you go up this time you just press and release but it's that's where it's setting its actual uh pressure that it needs how much oomph it needs to put on it to lift that door then you press the center button again go back down okay i got this from the support guy it wasn't quitely quite spelled out this nicely in the book or if it was i wasn't able to comprehend it overall what i can tell you is my customer support call experience was 110 it took less than 10 minutes for him to to to go through the entire process with us he had the issue resolved probably in 45 seconds after i got a hold of him absolutely incredible our customer support guy's name was gregory just keep calling until you get gregory no i believe he was going by a script he had just good information in front of him but he also had some experience because he said no no no you need to pull that harder and i like i like someone who's who's clearly done this at least once or twice themselves no that one pulls hard on that particular opener it pulls hard so i like that i'm sorry that we did the travel adjustment and pressure adjustment off camera we were on a support call once we got the door to move it made perfect sense it's interesting when it's down this lock is always sticking out christy we've got to clean up this garage door we installed it when it was wet and it had been sitting outside for several months one of those projects that we hadn't got around to all summer when we needed to do it but we did finally get it done so let's see if this works as soon as i press the button that little unlock goes in now you're backlit yeah but we'll fix that by putting the door down i got the door going all the way up it's perfect on that it's it's right where i'd want it we have to take this rope out oh let me see if it'll stop look at that to either take this rope off or tie it up somehow and it locks automatically the only thing we've got left is it doesn't come down quite square it appears that there's a little bit of daylight showing under this end and this ends put down pretty hard so i think i've got to adjust one of those pulleys up there so that it comes down a little bit differently but i can work on that meanwhile i'm just glad to have a nice warm insulated door and a nice warm shed for winter hope you guys have enjoyed this thanks for watching we'll see you next time on tractor time with tim [Music] almost a pest there we're never gonna get this secure the mounting bracket to the wall and the door opener okay yeah yeah yeah martha they're complaining about us yeah martha she's complaining about us

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Keywords: Tractor Time with Tim, compact tractor, John Deere, Kubota, Mahindra, gardening, Kioti, Yanmar, DIY, Chamberlain RJO70, LiftMaster 8500W installation, Chamberlain RJO70 review, Chamberlain, LiftMaster, Garage Door Opener, Wall Mount Garage Door Opener, garage door opener, Pole Barn Rehab

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Length: 23min 28sec (1408 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 29 2020