How To Fix Sensor Garage Door

They normally look like this.

How to fix sensor garage door.

Proper height for a garage door sensor is 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm. If you garage door is lowering then reversing back to the open position there could. 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.

The sensors that make garage doors safer must be located in the worst possible place close to the floor. Electric garage door openers are a great innovation but as is the case with every electric electronic component things can go bad and malfunction. Garage door openers manufactured after 1993 include sensors to prevent a door from closing on a child or pet. Garage door sensors are safety devices that prevent the door from closing on people pets or objects in the doorway.

The sensors are located above the floor at each side of the door opening and. Lower is easy to stand above with a foot on either side. In this video i show you how to realign your garage door sensors so that the garage door can function properly.