How To Set Garage Door Sensors

Reattach the cut wires to the new sensors.

How to set garage door sensors.

Electric garage door openers are a great innovation but as is the case with every electric electronic component things can go bad and malfunction. How to adjust a photo eye on a garage door. You ll find this in your home s breaker box. On the garage door motor there will be two knobs or dials to adjust the opener and the reverse sensor.

Check to make sure nothing stored near the garage doorway is obstructing the sensors. Turn off the power to your sensors by tripping the fuse for your garage. The sensors that make garage doors safer must be located in the worst possible place close to the floor. Adjust the garage door opener mechanism.

Loosen the screws that mount each of your garage door sensors. The sensors that make garage doors safer must be located in the worst possible place close. Evaluate the problem you are having with the garage door. Cut the wires about 1 inch 2 5 cm from the safety sensor.

Use a level take out a level to make sure that the string between the sensors is level. If done correctly you ll have disconnected your safety sensors from your garage door. If the garage door goes up but does not close or only partially closes then reopens. Connect the new safety sensor wires.

Use a pair of wire cutters to cut the white and black wire about an inch from the sensor. They are very. Pull the sensor from the bracket. Connect the sensors with the string bring the untied end of the string to the opposing sensor and tie it to the mounting bracket so the string is like a tightrope across your garage door opening.

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. Remove the wing nut from the safety sensor.