Garage Door Photo Eye Lights Off

Fixing garage door sensors on an automatic garage door opener.

Garage door photo eye lights off.

How to electrically jump together your garage door eye sensors with out buying new onesel. All garage door openers use a sensor light to prevent the door from closing when an object is in its path. Disabling the sensor light on a craftsman garage door opener is only temporary and will render the remote controls useless until you reconnect the sensors. This indicates that the sensor is on and working as it should be.

Take a look at your sensors. You may well find that one has a light that s on and the other s light is off or flickering. Sometimes the sensor becomes faulty and needs to be replaced. As of january 1 1993 it became mandatory that all garage door openers have safety eye sensors built into them.

Each g arage door photo eye should have a small led light on it. If the photo eye senses an obstruction it stops the door from closing and potentially prevents damage or injury to a vehicle. The photo eye of an automatic opening garage door is a safety feature. Other signs include flashing garage door opener lights missing sensor light or flashing sensor lights.

Raise the garage door using the control button on the garage wall or the remote control unit from a vehicle. These sensors are designed to protect children from unnecessary harm and are usually positioned about 6 to 8 inches in front of the vertical tracks that the garage door moves up and down on. Inspect each sensor to make sure the green or red power indicator lights are illuminated. Here s how to tell if garage door sensor is bad five things to check.

Garage door sensor s won t stay aligned. This video is not intended to fix all of the problems with the garage door sensors just to d. This is a sign that the sensor has been bumped and so it slightly.