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Old 12-20-2018, 08:57 PM
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So if all those previous ideas didn’t fix it, here’s what happened to us last year.

We returned after dinner one night to have no power to the garage door. We tried the breaker, GFI, etc, with no success so we called an electrician. Turns out that the lamp post next to the driveway was wired to the same circuit as the garage door. Over the years, there had been some settling in the ground around the lamp post and the wiring to the lamp had broke and shorted. He disconnected the lamp post from the circuit until it could be dug out and reconnected.