How To Fix Garage Door Sensor Alignment

Garage door sensors must be aligned to ensure your garage door opens and closes properly.

How to fix garage door sensor alignment.

Garage door sensors are designed to prevent the door from closing if something obscures the sensor. Proper height for a garage door sensor is 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm. This is a brief demonstration on how to adjust the safety sensors on your garage door. In other words something is probably blocking the beam.

Since the sensors are often placed 6 above the ground all sorts of items could get in the way. If your garage door sensors are outside of this range remove them entirely from the garage door frame and install leveled inside the safe zone. But if the light on the receiving sensor is blinking you may have problems with garage door sensor alignment.