Garage Door Safety Reverse Not Working

Sensors are a critical safety feature but can prevent an automatic garage door from working properly.

Garage door safety reverse not working.

In approximately half of my inspections the automatic garage door opener does not auto reverse when met with resistance. Let s start with the most obvious sign your garage door doesn t close properly. Because most pre 1982 garage door openers do not comply with current safety standards the consumer product safety commission cpsc recommends replacement with an opener that has an auto. Garage door sensors prevent the garage door from closing if there s something in the way.

Garage door reverses before hitting the floor. Garage door openers have an adjustment screw that controls the closing force the pressure with which a door is allowed to descend before the motor switches off when the door reverses before it even hits the floor this is often because the close force. If your sensors or garage door motor is. To access the controls use a stepladder to reach the main part of the opener s motor.

If you ve tested your garage door opener s auto reverse and found it requires too much force for the door to reverse or it doesn t reverse at all you can adjust the settings on the garage door opener controls. Two possible problems can lead to a garage door reversing before it even touches the floor. If it s not sensitive enough the door won t reverse creating a potential hazard. Injuries from garage doors account for about 20 000 er visits every year and 60 children have been killed since 1982 from garage doors that did not auto reverse when met with contact.

Clean and adjust the photoelectric eye which also reverses the garage door. How to tell if garage door sensor is bad.