How To Make A Garage Door Sensor

The latest garage door sensors are technologically advanced and even allow you to control the opening and closing through an app on your smartphone.

How to make a garage door sensor.

Raise the garage door using the control button on the garage wall or the remote control unit from a vehicle. To disable your garage door sensor first make sure your garage door is closed or propped up with 2 by 4s just in case it comes crashing down when it s put into manual mode. And if you are planning to upgrade to a new garage door or sensors make sure to check out a few available options in the market. The garage door is one of the most prominent parts of our house and they deserve equal care.

Once your garage door is secure pull down on the manual release cord which should be red and located next to the garage door motor. Sometimes the sensor may be beyond repair due to wear and tear and in such a case your best bet is to replace the garage door sensor with a new one. Higher than that can miss many low lying objects including pets. Proper height for a garage door sensor is 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm.

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. Lower is easy to stand above with a foot on either side. Inspect each sensor to make sure the green or red power indicator lights are illuminated.