Safety Reverse Garage Door

Sensors are a critical safety feature but can prevent an automatic garage door from working properly.

Safety reverse garage door.

Garage door sensors prevent the garage door from closing if there s something in the way. We design and engineer residential garage door openers commercial door operators and gate entry systems. The garage door must reverse on contact with a 11 2 inch object or a 2 by 4 board laid flat on the floor. It costs nothing only takes a moment to complete and helps to ensure the overall safety and health of your automatic garage door opener system.

In approximately half of my inspections the automatic garage door opener does not auto reverse when met with resistance. 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. To learn how to test your garage door opener s protecto. Follow these simple steps to test your garage door s automatic safety reverse sensors.

Failure to adjust the opener properly may cause severe injury or death. Test door opener monthly. 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. Place an object such as a.

Testing the automatic safety reverse sensors is an easy task to perform once a month. If your sensors or garage door motor is. Adjust the garage door opener mechanism. Chamberlain group cgi the corporate parent company to liftmaster chamberlain merlin and grifco is a global leader in access solutions and products.

This is real safety hazard. On the garage door motor there will be two knobs or dials to adjust the opener and the reverse sensor. After adjusting either the force or the limit of travel retest the door opener. To access the controls use a stepladder to reach the main part of the opener s motor.