How To Align Electric Eyes On Garage Door

4 put a tube on the electric eye on each side of the garage door one side for mornings the other side for evenings 5.

How to align electric eyes on garage door.

The photo eye of an automatic opening garage door is a safety feature. Be gentle as you re making adjustments. If something gets in the path of the invisible beam between the photo eyes as the door is closing the opener will stop closing and will reverse operation. Turn off the power to your sensors by tripping the fuse for your garage.

Don t take them all the way out. You ll find this in your home s breaker box. By hand make slight adjustments to your photo eye sensors until they align. Look for obstructions adjust the sensors to get a solid green light.

In this video i show you how to realign your garage door sensors so that the garage door can function properly. Loosen the screws that mount each of your garage door sensors. First adjust the sensor that wasn t lit. Squeeze the tube so it makes an oval shape instead of it s normal round shape and slip it over the body of the electric eye unit so it extends about 2 3 inches 5 1 7 6 cm past the end of the electric eye.

How to fix a garage door s photo eye. If the photo eye senses an obstruction it stops the door from closing and. If this happens follow the steps below to align the photo eyes. Also how to manually close and disconnect.

When it lights back up again it should be in the correct position and your door should work again.