Garage Remote Model Numbers, and Which Number Is Which

The number on the back of a handheld remote identifies that remote. The number on the label of the motor unit bolted to your ceiling identifies the opener. They are separate part numbers from separate products, and neither one implies the other.

This matters because searching is easy with the wrong one. A search for the number off your old remote returns listings for that remote, and a listing for a remote is not a statement about which openers accept it unless the listing says so.

The number you want when you are buying a replacement is usually the opener model number, because that is what listings name when they name anything useful.

Remote model numbers are printed on the back of the case, often under the visor clip, and sometimes inside the battery compartment. They are small and they wear off, so a photograph beats a transcription.

Opener model numbers are on a label on the motor unit. On ceiling-mounted units the label is usually on the side or the end of the housing and faces sideways, not down, which is why people miss it. It typically carries the model number, a serial number and a manufacture date.

An FCC ID appears on both, and it identifies the certified radio rather than the product line. That is a separate identifier again, and it is the one that ties to a federal record you can look up.

Every model in the table below appears by name in the text of at least one product listing collected for this site. The count in the last column is the number of those listings, and each model has its own page giving them.

The index is therefore a map of what the listings talk about, not a catalog of garage remotes. Models that exist and are not named in any listing here are simply absent, and their absence carries no meaning at all.

The provenance table below the index shows which listing contributed which models, so you can see exactly where any entry came from.

The models in this index fall into visible patterns. Several share an LM suffix, several share MAX, and the numbers group tidily. It would be easy to fill in the neighbors.

This site does not do that. A shared suffix is a naming convention, not a compatibility statement, and product lines change what a suffix means over time. Inferring that a listing naming one model applies to its numerical neighbor is exactly the reasoning that produces a returned part.

So the rule here is narrow and boring: if a listing prints a model number, that model gets a page and the listing is quoted as naming it. If no listing prints it, this site has nothing to say.

Search on the opener model number first, and read the listing text rather than the title. Titles are written for search engines and often list a dozen numbers; the body copy is where a seller states what the item is actually for.

When a listing names your number, that is a seller statement, which is worth something and is not proof. When a listing does not name it, treat the question as open rather than answered either way.

If nothing names your opener, the remaining routes are the manufacturer support documentation for your model, and the FCC grant record for the frequency. Both are linked below.