Safety Reverse Garage Door

On the garage door motor there will be two knobs or dials to adjust the opener and the reverse sensor.

Safety reverse garage door.

To access the controls use a stepladder to reach the main part of the opener s motor. If your sensors or garage door motor is. Sensors are a critical safety feature but can prevent an automatic garage door from working properly. Place an object such as a.

To learn how to test your garage door opener s protecto. Therefore some pre 1982 garage door openers may have been manufactured with other safety features which may stop the door but not cause it to reverse. Testing the automatic safety reverse sensors is an easy task to perform once a month. We design and engineer residential garage door openers commercial door operators and gate entry systems.

This is real safety hazard. 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. After adjusting either the force or the limit of travel retest the door opener. Failure to adjust the opener properly may cause severe injury or death.

Adjust the garage door opener mechanism. The garage door must reverse on contact with a 11 2 inch object or a 2 by 4 board laid flat on the floor. 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. 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.

In approximately half of my inspections the automatic garage door opener does not auto reverse when met with resistance. Chamberlain group cgi the corporate parent company to liftmaster chamberlain merlin and grifco is a global leader in access solutions and products. Test door opener monthly. This video will show you how to perform the test of your garage door opener s safety reversal system.