How To Fix Sensor Garage Door

In this video i show you how to realign your garage door sensors so that the garage door can function properly.

How to fix sensor garage door.

They normally look like this. If you garage door is lowering then reversing back to the open position there could. Garage door openers manufactured after 1993 include sensors to prevent a door from closing on a child or pet. Higher than that can miss many low lying objects including pets.

Lower is easy to stand above with a foot on either side. The sensor s transmitter sender and receiver are located on opposite sides of your garage door usually near the ground. Electric garage door openers are a great innovation but as is the case with every electric electronic component things can go bad and malfunction. Proper height for a garage door sensor is 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm.

The sensors that make garage doors safer must be located in the worst possible place close to the floor. If your door won t close it is likely that something is either covering one side of the sensor unit or has caused one side or the other to move off center. If your garage door sensors are outside of this range remove them entirely from the garage door frame and install leveled inside the safe zone.