I'm confused... after switching cables everything works again?
A voltage surge could damage ICs but the cable? Do the cables melt or something? What happens
Diodes might work or cause it to be a tiny bit slower or tiny bit faster
Another option is to vary the motor speed with pwm and a potentiometer to fine tune it...
1ms sounds a little small
This 1 second pulse time? Do you have access to the circuit? I mean this 1 second pulse goes directly to the roller door or to a relay?
The LED is current driven, you can use any voltage over 2v however, the voltage drop across the resistor is then 7v, lower the voltage the less waste, the primary reason for the resistor is to limit the current to stop it exceeding 20ma
A white LED is a blue LED ironically, the difference is the blue LED gets a coat of phosphorus which turns it into white light!
Change them or paint them lol
I suppose you could buy a vibration sensor which feeds the trigger of a 555 chip, this can be used in monostable mode to light up an LED and or / buzzer
A transistor version is an option too
While working on a circuit with an inductor the other day i noticed a inductor begin to whine when it received a lower voltage/current maybe the voltage has dipped?