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Ghost Controls Keypad & Intercom Repair: The Fort Worth Owner’s Guide

Ghost Controls keypad and intercom repair in Fort Worth typically runs $160 to $340 installed, depending on whether we’re replacing the keypad unit, the intercom board, or both. We stock Ghost Controls-compatible keypads and intercom kits on our trucks and can usually diagnose and complete the swap the same day you call. Most owners find out the hard way: the keypad stops taking the code, or the intercom goes quiet right when a delivery driver’s standing at the gate.

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What you’re dealing with is a low-voltage component that sits outside in Texas weather year-round. Heat, humidity, and the occasional freeze-thaw cycle do more damage to these units than any wiring fault ever will. The good news is this is rarely a whole-system failure. Tell me what it’s doing wrong, and I’ll tell you exactly what it needs.

Which Ghost Controls Models This Applies To

Ghost Controls builds three main lines that show up in Fort Worth driveways: the AXDP dual-gate opener series, the AX1P single-gate series, and the newer TSS1 and TSD2 solar-capable openers. The keypad and intercom part numbers differ slightly among them, and here’s where owners get tripped up: the AXDP and AX1P keypads are not interchangeable with the TSS-series units, even though they look nearly identical from ten feet away.

The surest way to identify what you have is to open the battery compartment on the keypad or the intercom’s outer housing and read the label inside. Ghost Controls prints the part number on a white sticker, usually starting with AXPK (keypad) or AXPI (intercom). If the sticker’s faded, check the opener’s control board housing for a model plate. For OEM versus aftermarket: Ghost Controls OEM keypads carry the best weather sealing and the cleanest radio pairing, but a quality aftermarket unit like the Linear ACT-34B can work as a direct substitute on older AXDP boards. We keep both on the truck, and we’ll tell you honestly which one makes sense for your system and your budget.

Signs Your Ghost Controls Keypad or Intercom Is Failing

• Keypad lights up but the gate won’t move. This usually means the radio transmitter inside the keypad has drifted off frequency or the pairing was lost after a power surge. The keypad’s own battery can test fine while the transmitter is dead.
• Intermittent entry: works in the morning, dead by afternoon. Classic Texas heat symptom. The keypad’s circuit board expands in the sun and a cracked solder joint opens up. We see this constantly on west-facing gates in Fort Worth neighborhoods like Tanglewood and Wedgwood.
• Intercom rings the house but you can’t hear the visitor, or they can’t hear you. The speaker element or microphone capsule has corroded. Humidity gets inside the housing through a failed gasket and does the rest.
• Keypad works but the display shows scrambled characters or nothing at all. The LED or LCD driver is failing. It’s a cosmetic problem until it’s not: eventually the keypad stops registering presses entirely.
• The whole unit is dead: no lights, no beep, no response. Check the obvious first: the keypad’s battery and the intercom’s power feed. If both are good, the control board inside the keypad has shorted, and that’s a replacement, not a repair.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

In Fort Worth, expect to pay $160 to $260 for a Ghost Controls-compatible keypad replacement installed, and $220 to $340 for an intercom unit replacement installed. If both units are dead and you want them done in one trip, most jobs land between $300 and $420. The range comes down to OEM versus aftermarket parts, whether we’re replacing the mounting post or reusing the existing one, and how much wiring has to be re-run from weather damage.

Every price we quote is written down before we open a single panel. Parts and labor are listed separately on the invoice. You’ll know the number before the work starts, and that number is the number you pay. The work carries our written guarantee, good for a full year. If the repair fails inside that window, we come back and fix it at no charge. No argument, no trip fee, no fine print. That’s the Garrison Standard, and it applies to every keypad and intercom job we do in Fort Worth.

DIY or Call Us?

There’s a short list of things worth checking on your own before you call. Replace the keypad battery. Confirm the opener itself works with a remote or the hardwired button inside the gate. Verify the intercom’s power supply hasn’t been unplugged or tripped at the breaker. If those checks don’t solve it, stop there.

These are low-voltage components, so there’s no electrocution risk like a panel swap, but the failure points are almost always on the circuit board itself. You can’t solder a new radio chip into a corroded Ghost Controls keypad at the kitchen table. The common DIY mistake we see in Fort Worth is buying a universal keypad online, wiring it wrong, and blowing the receiver input on the opener’s main control board. That turns a $200 keypad job into a $600 board replacement. If you’ve checked the battery and the breaker and it’s still dead, call us at (817) 840-7067. We’ll tell you over the phone whether it sounds like a keypad issue or something deeper.

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