Aim Garage Door Sensor
Offers peace of mind and safe operation.
Aim garage door sensor. Garage door sensors are safety devices that prevent the door from closing on people pets or objects in the doorway. Proper height for a garage door sensor is 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm. Higher than that can miss many low lying objects including pets. When determining whether they need to be replaced or just adjusted you need to look at all the options.
If a safety sensor stops working the remote control won t work and the motor unit lights. The garage door opener has two sensors that prevent the garage door from closing on a person or object. In this video i show you how to realign your garage door sensors so that the garage door can function properly. 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 sensors project an invisible light beam across the inside of the garage door to ensure that if anything is coming in or going out that the door automatically reverses before hitting anything or anyone. The photo eye of an automatic opening garage door is a safety feature. If an object or person is in the way of the beam the closing door reverses direction. The sensors are located above the floor at each side of the door opening and.
Lower is easy to stand above with a foot on either side. When you examine how these sensors work you realize how intricate they are. Package includes 2 safety sensors mounting brackets and 18 in of extension wire.