How To Adjust Liftmaster Garage Door Sensors

How to adjust a photo eye on a garage door.

How to adjust liftmaster garage door sensors.

To prevent the garage door from injuring someone in the door or damaging an item in the way of the door all models of liftmaster garage door openers come installed with a safety sensor. On the garage door motor there will be two knobs or dials to adjust the opener and the reverse sensor. If so the motor rotate slightly in the case and tears the cabling and connectors. How to install safety sensors correctly.

Higher than that can miss many low lying objects including pets. If your garage door sensors are outside of this range remove them entirely from the garage door frame and install leveled inside the safe zone. The motor has much torque and if it is old the rubber mount may be cracked. Watch this video to see how the pro s do it.

Worst case buy new sensors they are commonly sold separately. Lower is easy to stand above with a foot on either side. That happened to me. Proper height for a garage door sensor is 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm.

The photo eye of an automatic opening garage door is a safety feature. This video will help you in wiring up your safety sensors if you have p. Adjust the garage door opener mechanism. Another reason for flashing light is the motor position sensor and it s printed circuit board.

For the door to close correctly without reversing the safety sensors need to be aligned perfectly and there should be nothing in the way of the light beam. In this video i show you how to realign your garage door sensors so that the garage door can function properly.