MotoFX Garage Door Opener Installation for SV650S

For Father's Day this year my wife bought me a Craftsman garage door opener, a MotoFX Built In Garage Door Opener (BIGDO) and a Universal Receiver.




The installation instructions left MUCH to be desired so it took me a little bit to figure out exactly how to do it. Hopefully this will make it a little easier for the next person.

You can wire the opener to activate with the use of your turn signal or your headlights high beam, I chose the high beam method. There are a few different ways of connecting the opener wiring to the stock wiring of the bike: soldering, stripping and taping or splicing. Due to the tight quarters I'd be dealing with I choose the splicing method. There are two different gauges of wire you will be splicing into and below are the parts I purchased at Radio Shack to get the job done.



The package on the left is for the larger gauge power and ground wiring and the package on the right is for the low and high beam wires. I think these were like $2 and were very easy to use.


Remove one of the access plates to get at the headlight plug and pull it out.




You will need to cut back and remove the electrical tape about an inch or so to give you enough room to splice everything in. Using the smaller Tap Connectors I wired the Blue opener wire to the White low beam wire, the Green opener wire to the Yellow high beam wire and the brown opener wire to the black/white headlight ground wire.

Here are the three wires spliced in.


Wrap over everything with electrical tape and you're ready to run the power wiring.


Finding the right wire to power the opener was the hardest part. I wanted to pull it from somewhere close to the unit and needed a wire that was only hot when the key was turned to the "On" position so I wouldn't drain my battery. I finally decided on cutting open the bundle of wires going to my ignition switch. The wiring schematic was pretty much useless for telling which wire would be the correct one. I used a probe style meter that you push into the wire insulation to get your reading and found the Orange wire to be hot only when the key was turned on. Splice in the red wire from the opener and then wrap it up with electrical tape.



After the pic below I routed the wire along with some other existing bundles up front leaving enough slack so it wouldn't get pulled when turning. I'm a little anal so I'll probably take a black sharpie and color the wire so it doesn't stand out so much.



Now all you have to do is mount the opener up in your fairing somewhere. I used a piece of double sided Velcro I had leftover from my PowerCommander and mounted it to the the vertical part of my fairing.




Since I have a newer garage door opener (after 1997) with a rolling code I need to install the universal receiver. I left all the dip switches on the MotoFX opener and the universal receiver set to the defaults it came with and it worked just fine.

Here is a pic of the universal receiver plugged in and wired to my opener. All I have to do is tidy up the wires and I'll be done.


Hopefully this write-up will save someone a few headaches trying to figure out the installation. I'll try to post a video clip when I get some time.