How To Wire Garage Door Sensors

Proper height for a garage door sensor is 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm.

How to wire garage door sensors.

1 push the safety sensor with attached carriage bolt. Watch this video to see how the pro s do it. A wiring diagram is a streamlined traditional photographic depiction of an electric circuit. Higher than that can miss many low lying objects including pets.

If done correctly you ll have disconnected your safety sensors from your garage door. Cut the wires about 1 inch 2 5 cm from the safety sensor. As we have established earlier garage door safety sensors are not universal and will only work with garage door openers of the same brand. Connect the new safety sensor wires separate the control wires on the new sensor.

Repeat for the opposite side. Strip 1 2 inch of insulation off each wire with wire strippers. Here are the two main exceptions to the rule. Collection of garage door safety sensor wiring diagram.

Loosen the two wire terminal screws on the sensor one full turn with a phillips head screwdriver. Insert each wire end in between the flat plate under the screws and tighten the screws to secure the wires. Lower is easy to stand above with a foot on either side. 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.

The sensors are normally about 4 inches above the ground. How to install safety sensors correctly. If you own a liftmaster chamberlain or craftsman garage door opener the same safety sensor will work on all three brands. This set of sensors comes with mounting brackets as well as 18 inches of extension wire to make the connection a bit easier.

Connect the black striped control wire to the black striped safety sensor wire using the crimp wire nut. Use a pair of wire cutters to cut the white and black wire about an inch from the sensor. Garage door sensors work by shooting a beam of infrared light across the entrance of your garage to the sensor on the other side. It shows the parts of the circuit as streamlined forms and the power and also signal links between the gadgets.