First adjust the sensor that wasn t lit.
How to align electric eyes on garage door.
Loosen the screws that mount each of your garage door sensors.
Slide each garage door sensor downward so it is as.
The photo eye of an automatic opening garage door is a safety feature.
A garage door opener uses photo eyes as safety devices to prevent damage or injury when the door is operated.
Also how to manually close and disconnect.
By hand make slight adjustments to your photo eye sensors until they align.
In this video i show you how to realign your garage door sensors so that the garage door can function properly.
Turn off the power to your sensors by tripping the fuse for your garage.
Don t take them all the way out.
If this happens follow the steps below to align the photo eyes.
You ll find this in your home s breaker box.
When it lights back up again it should be in the correct position and your door should work again.
4 put a tube on the electric eye on each side of the garage door one side for mornings the other side for evenings 5.
How to fix a garage door s photo eye.
Squeeze the tube so it makes an oval shape instead of it s normal round shape and slip it over the body of the electric eye unit so it extends about 2 3 inches 5 1 7 6 cm past the end of the electric eye.
Be gentle as you re making adjustments.
If something gets in the path of the invisible beam between the photo eyes as the door is closing the opener will stop closing and will reverse operation.