How To Install Garage Door Safety Sensor

Installing safety sensors on a garage door opener 1.

How to install garage door safety sensor.

The best universal garage door sensors. Slide the bracket along the track so that it. The latest garage door sensors are technologically advanced and even allow you to control the opening and closing through an app on your smartphone. If done correctly you ll have disconnected your safety sensors from your garage door.

Press the bracket s clip onto the garage door s track near the ground. Terminal two would have three white wires connected to it. Use a pair of wire cutters to cut the white and black wire about an inch from the sensor. Don t take them all the way out.

Reattach the cut wires to the new sensors. Pull the sensor from the bracket. The safety sensors black wires hooks up to the third terminal. Just loosen them enough so that the mounting brackets can slide up and down but won t do so unless you intentionally move them.

Loosen the screws that mount each of your garage door sensors. If the third terminal is not there it is not possible to hook up safety sensors. Use a step ladder to access the garage door opener s power cord and motor unit. Cut the wires about 1 inch 2 5 cm from the safety sensor.

However if you do decide to replace your old sensors here are a few that i. Sometimes the sensor may be beyond repair due to wear and tear and in such a case your best bet is to replace the garage door sensor with a new one. Most garage door sensors don t immediately tell you what brand of garage door opener they work with. Connect the new safety sensor wires.

Push the safety sensor with attached carriage bolt against its supplied bracket and hand secure the two parts.