Garage door sensors must be aligned to ensure your garage door opens and closes properly.
How to line up garage door sensors.
If the photo eye senses an obstruction it stops the door from closing and.
The photo eye of an automatic opening garage door is a safety feature.
Garage door sensors are designed to prevent the door from closing if something obscures the sensor.
All garage doors that have been manufactured in the united states after 1993 are required to have a reversing safety system.
Higher than that can miss many low lying objects including pets.
Lower is easy to stand above with a foot on either side.
Proper height for a garage door sensor is 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm.
Over time sensors may fail to function correctly and you will need to know how to align them.
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.