How To Install Garage Door Safety Sensor

Installing safety sensors on a garage door opener 1.

How to install garage door safety sensor.

Often the only way to tell whether your garage door sensor is universal is to check the manual or contact the manufacturer. Use a step ladder to access the garage door opener s power cord and motor unit. The safety sensors black wires hooks up to the third terminal. Most garage door sensors don t immediately tell you what brand of garage door opener they work with.

Cut the wires about 1 inch 2 5 cm from the safety sensor. Just loosen them enough so that the mounting brackets can slide up and down but won t do so unless you intentionally move them. Remove the wing nut from the safety sensor. The white wires hook up to the second terminal.

If the third terminal is not there it is not possible to hook up safety sensors. Push the safety sensor with attached carriage bolt against its supplied bracket and hand secure the two parts. Use a pair of wire cutters to cut the white and black wire about an inch from the sensor. Slide the bracket along the track so that it.

Don t take them all the way out. However if you do decide to replace your old sensors here are a few that i. The best universal garage door sensors. Pull the sensor from the bracket.

Connect the new safety sensor wires. If done correctly you ll have disconnected your safety sensors from your garage door. Loosen the screws that mount each of your garage door sensors. Reattach the cut wires to the new sensors.

Terminal two would have three white wires connected to it.