How To Align Garage Door Safety Lights

If the photo eye senses an obstruction it stops the door from closing and.

How to align garage door safety lights.

In this video i show you how to realign your garage door sensors so that the garage door can function properly. Remove the receiving sensor green light from bracket. Make sure that the string is taut between the two sensors. Loosen the screws that mount each of your garage door sensors.

Make sure that the vertical track is fastened tightly to the wall and is not wobbly. When you examine how these sensors work you realize how intricate they are. You can do so by taking off the wing nut. Slowly rotate sensor back aligning sensor with sending sensor until it.

Turn off the power to your sensors by tripping the fuse for your garage. Obtain a string to check the alignment of the sensors. Garage door safety sensors are sensitive to bangs and bashes and tend to lose alignment when something hits them hard. Point the sensor away from the sending sensor so that the light is completely off.

The photo eye of an automatic opening garage door is a safety feature. Also measure from the wall the track connects to and make sure the distance away from the wall is the same. Measure from the ground to the garage door safety sensor on both sides and make sure they are at the same height. Once the light is off wait 10 seconds.

Don t take them all the way out. Slide each garage door sensor downward so it is as. Run the string across the garage doorway and tie it to the other sensor. When determining whether they need to be replaced or just adjusted you need to look at all the options.