Garage Door Downward Pressure Switch

The limit dials have an icon of an opening or closing garage door.

Garage door downward pressure switch. The door should stop opening. First is a genie opener made before 98 will have a big bolt with a nut that stick about 2 3 inches out of the back of unit. With the garage door fully down closed press the wall button or the button on the remote to open the garage door. The force dials have an upward or downward arrow containing the letters kg step 3 adjust the down limit dial first.

If you garage door is lowering then reversing back to the open position there could. An incorrectly adjusted garage door opener and sensor can cause damage to the garage door motor lift mechanism your house or worse a person or pet. Turn it a full turn counter clockwise to increase the amount of downward travel by two inches and clockwise to reduce the amount of travel. This video details how to adjust the opener force and travel of the door.

When the garage door is about halfway up open grasp the bottom of the garage door. Garage door openers manufactured after 1993 include sensors to prevent a door from closing on a child or pet. If the door does not stop or is hard to hold then decrease the open force. A few minutes every six months or so will.

7 replace the plastic shroud when the garage door operates correctly. If the door is having a hard time opening the door the opener will stop so not to damage the door or opener. Alternatively turn the screw counterclockwise one quarter turn to decrease the amount of downward door travel. Garage door reverses before hitting the floor.