How To Wire Garage Door Sensors

Cut the wires about 1 inch 2 5 cm from the safety sensor.

How to wire garage door sensors.

Garage door sensors work by shooting a beam of infrared light across the entrance of your garage to the sensor on the other side. The sensors are normally about 4 inches above the ground. Here are the two main exceptions to the rule. If you own a liftmaster chamberlain or craftsman garage door opener the same safety sensor will work on all three brands.

Loosen the two wire terminal screws on the sensor one full turn with a phillips head screwdriver. Installing the sensors as part of the garage door opener installation requires attention to wiring and adjustments to the devices themselves. Connect the solid white wires the same way. Repeat for the opposite side.

Collection of garage door safety sensor wiring diagram. How to install safety sensors correctly. A wiring diagram is a streamlined traditional photographic depiction of an electric circuit. Connect the black striped control wire to the black striped safety sensor wire using the crimp wire nut.

This video will help you in wiring up your safety sensors if you have p. It shows the parts of the circuit as streamlined forms and the power and also signal links between the gadgets. Connect the new safety sensor wires separate the control wires on the new sensor. Proper height for a garage door sensor is 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm.

This set of sensors comes with mounting brackets as well as 18 inches of extension wire to make the connection a bit easier. As we have established earlier garage door safety sensors are not universal and will only work with garage door openers of the same brand. 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. Higher than that can miss many low lying objects including pets.

Strip 1 2 inch of insulation off each wire with wire strippers. Use a pair of wire cutters to cut the white and black wire about an inch from the sensor. 1 push the safety sensor with attached carriage bolt. Lower is easy to stand above with a foot on either side.