Adjust the garage door opener mechanism.
How do i align my garage door sensors.
You ll find this in your home s breaker box.
To realign them adjust the sensor that seems misaligned and wait for the led lights to light up.
Tie a string long enough to span the width of the garage door around the bracket on one side so that the string will line up with the sensor lens.
Obtain a string to check the alignment of the sensors.
Slowly rotate sensor back aligning sensor with sending sensor until it lights up green again.
Make sure that the sensors are tightened before you finish aligning your sensors.
Turn off the power to your sensors by tripping the fuse for your garage.
Locate your garage door sensors.
Run the string across the garage doorway and tie it to the other sensor.
When you have a strong green light put it back into the bracket and put the wing nut back on.
On most brands of garage door sensors the led light on each sensor will not light up unless the sensors are aligned.
If the photo eye senses an obstruction it stops the door from closing and.
Point the sensor away from the sending sensor so that the light is completely off.
If the lights on the sensors are lit it probably means that there is another reason that your garage door isn t closing.
Once the light is off wait 10 seconds.
Refer to the owner s manual to determine which is.
The photo eye of an automatic opening garage door is a safety feature.
Slide each garage door sensor downward so it is as.
Don t take them all the way out.
On the garage door motor there will be two knobs or dials to adjust the opener and the reverse sensor.
Make sure that the string is taut between the two sensors.
Loosen the screws that mount each of your garage door sensors.
Tie a string to one of the sensors so if pulled across the garage doorway it will run across the center of the sensor.
You now need to check that the string is.
In this video i show you how to realign your garage door sensors so that the garage door can function properly.
They should be at each side of the garage door near the ground.
How to adjust a photo eye on a garage door.
That way you can decrease.
Firstly you ll need to cut off the power to your garage door properly.
The best way to do this is to trip the.
