Adjust Garage Door Safety Reverse

Turn the adjustment screw on the limit clockwise if the door doesn t fully close.

Adjust garage door safety reverse.

When your garage door opener isn t working properly there are several components you can adjust to address the issue. If your door does not reverse readily after contacting an obstruction the opener s sensitivity adjustment may be set improperly. 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. Whenever adjustments are made make sure to test the protector system as well as the safety reversal system.

If the cardboard tube in the middle of the full roll of paper towels bends then too much force is being used to reverse the door. One quick test is to place a 2 4 on the floor of the garage in the door s path. To open the door completely adjust garage door opener by turning the limit counterclockwise. The limit the force and the safety reverse.

Step 1 adjust the limit. The safety reverse test is based on how much effort the motor that moves the door needs to apply to open or close it. Garage door openers are designed to reverse direction when a descending garage door meets an obstruction. Place a roll of paper towels in the path of the door and press the button to have the door close.

This can create a dangerous situation. If the door does not properly reverse on striking the 2 4 then the garage door opener should be disengaged until the unit is either adjusted according to the instructions in the owners manual repaired or replaced with a new garage door opener. On the garage door motor there will be two knobs or dials to adjust the opener and the reverse sensor. Adjust the garage door opener mechanism.

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.