Aim Garage Door Sensor

If a safety sensor stops working the remote control won t work and the motor unit lights.

Aim garage door sensor.

Garage door sensors are safety devices that prevent the door from closing on people pets or objects in the doorway. When determining whether they need to be replaced or just adjusted you need to look at all the options. When you examine how these sensors work you realize how intricate they are. The garage door opener has two sensors that prevent the garage door from closing on a person or object.

Proper height for a garage door sensor is 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm. The photo eye of an automatic opening garage door is a safety feature. Higher than that can miss many low lying objects including pets. Package includes 2 safety sensors mounting brackets and 18 in of extension wire.

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. Garage door safety sensors are sensitive to bangs and bashes and tend to lose alignment when something hits them hard. If the photo eye senses an obstruction it stops the door from closing and potentially prevents damage or injury to a vehicle. The sensors project an invisible light beam across the inside of the garage door to ensure that if anything is coming in or going out that the door automatically reverses before hitting anything or anyone.

The sensors are located above the floor at each side of the door opening and. One that sends an infrared beam and one that receives the beam. In this video i show you how to realign your garage door sensors so that the garage door can function properly.