How To Install Garage Door Safety Sensor

The safety sensors black wires hooks up to the third terminal.

How to install garage door safety sensor.

If done correctly you ll have disconnected your safety sensors from your garage door. Loosen the screws that mount each of your garage door sensors. Most garage door sensors don t immediately tell you what brand of garage door opener they work with. Often the only way to tell whether your garage door sensor is universal is to check the manual or contact the manufacturer.

The white wires hook up to the second terminal. Don t take them all the way out. Connect the new safety sensor wires. Use a step ladder to access the garage door opener s power cord and motor unit.

Installing safety sensors on a garage door opener 1. Just loosen them enough so that the mounting brackets can slide up and down but won t do so unless you intentionally move them. Press the bracket s clip onto the garage door s track near the ground. Pull the sensor from the bracket.

Use a pair of wire cutters to cut the white and black wire about an inch from the sensor. Slide the bracket along the track so that it. The best universal garage door sensors. Terminal two would have three white wires connected to it.

Sometimes the sensor may be beyond repair due to wear and tear and in such a case your best bet is to replace the garage door sensor with a new one. Push the safety sensor with attached carriage bolt against its supplied bracket and hand secure the two parts. Reattach the cut wires to the new sensors. However if you do decide to replace your old sensors here are a few that i.

Cut the wires about 1 inch 2 5 cm from the safety sensor.