How To Install Garage Door Safety Sensor

If done correctly you ll have disconnected your safety sensors from your garage door.

How to install garage door safety sensor. Terminal two would have three white wires connected to it. Just loosen them enough so that the mounting brackets can slide up and down but won t do so unless you intentionally move them. Slide the bracket along the track so that it. The white wires hook up to the second terminal.

Reattach the cut wires to the new sensors. If the third terminal is not there it is not possible to hook up safety sensors. Loosen the screws that mount each of your garage door sensors. Connect the new safety sensor wires.

Remove the wing nut from the safety sensor. Most garage door sensors don t immediately tell you what brand of garage door opener they work with. Use a pair of wire cutters to cut the white and black wire about an inch from the sensor. The latest garage door sensors are technologically advanced and even allow you to control the opening and closing through an app on your smartphone.

Pull the sensor from the bracket. Push the safety sensor with attached carriage bolt against its supplied bracket and hand secure the two parts. Sometimes the sensor may be beyond repair due to wear and tear and in such a case your best bet is to replace the garage door sensor with a new one. However if you do decide to replace your old sensors here are a few that i.

Use a step ladder to access the garage door opener s power cord and motor unit. Press the bracket s clip onto the garage door s track near the ground. Often the only way to tell whether your garage door sensor is universal is to check the manual or contact the manufacturer. Cut the wires about 1 inch 2 5 cm from the safety sensor.

Don t take them all the way out.