How To Connect Garage Door Sensor Wires

Step 1 unroll the low voltage wires on each side of the door from the sensor back toward the genie power head.

How to connect garage door sensor wires.

Attach the wires of the new sensors to your garage door system. Run the sensors wiring up along the wall and garage ceiling until it meets the overhead opener motor. Inspect the double strand insulated low voltage wires from each sensor to the back of the garage door opener. Wiring a sensor for a genie garage door opener is much like any other opener.

Safety eye sensors have been required on all garage door openers manufactured on or after. A wiring diagram is a streamlined traditional photographic depiction of an electric circuit. Each low voltage wire includes two strands. Connect these wires to the wiring of the new sensors.

Use the stepladder to inspect the wires near the upper part of a wall and at the ceiling. Slot the sensors back into their. Secure the wire against the wall at 12 inch intervals with the insulated staples and staple. It shows the parts of the circuit as streamlined forms and the power and also signal links between the gadgets.

A wiring diagram is a streamlined traditional pictorial depiction of an electrical circuit. However genie uses clips to secure the wires to the opener rail rather than stapling the wires to the ceiling. Staple them in place. Match like colors to like colors there are usually a black wire and a white wire.

Cross and twist the wires where they meet and run the wires in the channels to the motor. Collection of garage door safety sensor wiring diagram. It shows the components of the circuit as streamlined forms and the power as well as signal connections between the tools. Now that you have your hanging wires use your pliers to strip some of the casing back and expose the wires.

Opening if the beam is broken the door will not close. Run the safety sensor wiring by running the bell wires from both of the sensors located on each side of the door about 4 inches above the ground to the rail at the door header.