How To Fix Sensor Garage Door

Higher than that can miss many low lying objects including pets.

How to fix sensor garage door.

Garage door sensors are safety devices that prevent the door from closing on people pets or objects in the doorway. Electric garage door openers are a great innovation but as is the case with every electric electronic component things can go bad and malfunction. The sensors are located above the floor at each side of the door opening and. They normally look like this.

The sensor s transmitter sender and receiver are located on opposite sides of your garage door usually near the ground. In this video i show you how to realign your garage door sensors so that the garage door can function properly. If your door won t close it is likely that something is either covering one side of the sensor unit or has caused one side or the other to move off center. 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. Garage door openers manufactured after 1993 include sensors to prevent a door from closing on a child or pet. This is a brief demonstration on how to adjust the safety sensors on your garage door.