Garage Door Safety Infrared Pointing

The garage door opener has two sensors that prevent the garage door from closing on a person or object.

Garage door safety infrared pointing.

Raise the garage door using the control button on the garage wall or the remote control unit from a vehicle. The replacement safety sensors project an invisible light beam across the inside of the garage door to prevent accidents and are required for safe use of all chamberlain garage door openers. Use a pair of wire cutters to cut the white and black wire about an inch from the sensor. If they re turned on in both the sensors then there is no issue with the power supply.

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Cut the wires about 1 inch 2 5 cm from the safety sensor. One that sends an infrared beam and one that receives the beam. If an object or person is in the way of the beam the closing door reverses direction. The sensors use two photo eye lenses that transmit an infrared beam between them.

If done correctly you ll have disconnected your safety sensors from your garage door. A common cause of a malfunctioning garage door sensor is lack of power supply. A pressure sensor on the other hand makes use of sensor installed at the bottom of the garage door. Ul in the entrapment protection provisions.

Because garage door sensors rely on infrared technology to see if something is in the way of the door s operational path that path needs to be unobstructed. The consumer product safety commission commission or cpsc is issuing a final rule amending the regulations for the safety standard for automatic residential garage door operators to reflect changes made by underwriters laboratories inc. Sensor power reconnect the sensor to its power supply. Whenever there is an obstruction the garage door will automatically reverse before causing any damage.

These sensors are connected by an infrared beam and when there is something obstructing the beam the garage doors pulls back up instead of coming down thereby avoiding crushing whatever is obstructing the beam. Even a spider building a thick web near a sensor can cause that sensor to read that something is in the way. Consumer product safety commission. Chamberlain compatible these sensors replace defective or damaged sensors for every chamberlain garage door opener manufactured after 1997.

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