How To Align Electric Eyes On Garage Door

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

How to align electric eyes on garage door.

Loosen the screws that mount each of your garage door sensors. Slide each garage door sensor downward so it is as. You ll find this in your home s breaker box. How to adjust a photo eye on a garage door.

Be gentle as you re making adjustments. How to fix a garage door s photo eye. Also how to manually close and disconnect. By hand make slight adjustments to your photo eye sensors until they align.

In this video i show you how to realign your garage door sensors so that the garage door can function properly. 4 put a tube on the electric eye on each side of the garage door one side for mornings the other side for evenings 5. When it lights back up again it should be in the correct position and your door should work again. Don t take them all the way out.

First adjust the sensor that wasn t lit. Squeeze the tube so it makes an oval shape instead of it s normal round shape and slip it over the body of the electric eye unit so it extends about 2 3 inches 5 1 7 6 cm past the end of the electric eye. Look for obstructions adjust the sensors to get a solid green light. Turn off the power to your sensors by tripping the fuse for your garage.

The photo eye of an automatic opening garage door is a safety feature.