How To Set Garage Door Sensors

Evaluate the problem you are having with the garage door.

How to set garage door sensors.

Turn off the power to your sensors by tripping the fuse for your garage. If the garage door goes up but does not close or only partially closes then reopens. Refer to the owner s manual to determine which is. How to adjust a photo eye on a garage door.

Connect the new safety sensor wires. The sensors that make garage doors safer must be located in the worst possible place close. You ll find this in your home s breaker box. Pull the sensor from the bracket.

Don t take them all the way out. The sensors that make garage doors safer must be located in the worst possible place close to the floor. Electric garage door openers are a great innovation but as is the case with every electric electronic component things can go bad and malfunction. Check to make sure nothing stored near the garage doorway is obstructing the sensors.

Cut the wires about 1 inch 2 5 cm from the safety sensor. Reattach the cut wires to the new sensors. Remove the wing nut from the safety sensor. If done correctly you ll have disconnected your safety sensors from your garage door.

On the garage door motor there will be two knobs or dials to adjust the opener and the reverse sensor. Loosen the screws that mount each of your garage door sensors. In this video i show you how to realign your garage door sensors so that the garage door can function properly. Slide each garage door sensor downward so it is as.

Use a pair of wire cutters to cut the white and black wire about an inch from the sensor. Adjust the garage door opener mechanism. Use a level take out a level to make sure that the string between the sensors is level.