Garage Door Keeps Tripping Breaker

A short in the control board or the wiring of the garage door opener could also cause that problem.

Garage door keeps tripping breaker. My refrigerator trips the garage gfi should i replace the gfi. This is a problem that will require you or a service person to replace it. The gfci outlet is faulty. I have a three car garage two overhead doors one double one singe.

I think the rate is increasing. I ve replaced the drive gears once but otherwise it s been quite reliable. Viewed 9k times 1. Breaker in garage keeps tripping.

To reset a tripped circuit breaker turn off the breaker by moving the switch or handle to the off position and then turn it back on. Finally it s possible the garage door opener s motor has burned out and isn t operating at all. You could have a weak circuit breaker or a bad gcfi electrical outlet. So in here now i manually opened the door.

I d advise a temporary test using an extension cord plugged into a known different circuit to plug in the garage door opener in to for 2 or 3 days and see if the gfi breaker continues to trip after the opener has been removed from the circuit. A bad drive motor could cause the circuit breaker to trip. The circuit breaker trips when too much electricity flows through it or when it cannot handle the excess current load. It s nominally 1 3 hp.

Active 1 year 2 months ago. The garage door at my girlfriends house keeps tripping the breaker. There s a ground fault somewhere in the circuit. An electrical circuit breaker is a switching device that can be operated automatically or manually for controlling and protecting the electrical power system and the electrical devices connected to it.

A few weeks ago the breaker that my garage door opener and motion light are connected to tripped. I think the op s new garage door opener has a fault tripping the gfi breaker. It rained very hard last night and all yesterday the home inspector told her the ground for the garage was not optimal. Recently it has started blowing its breaker intermittently.

Only thing on the circuit is the opener and a flourcent light. Moisture invaded the receptacle box. I removed the 100w lightbulb but the trips. If the circuit breaker or gfci is tripping repeatedly it s a sign that there is a short circuit somewhere in the system possibly even the garage door opener itself.

For safety it s a good idea to stand back or to the side of the panel for safety just in case any sparks come from the breaker when it s moved or to wear safety goggles when resetting a circuit breaker. A short in one of the light sockets could also cause that problem. My liftmaster garage door opener is 27 years old. Should i replace the 15a gfi with a 20a gfi.

Most likely your outdoor gfci outlet is tripping due to one of these 3 problems. 10 11 29 12 09 15 pm. I put a side by side refrigerator in the garage and the gfi trips. I reset it and the breaker was fine for a few weeks.

It worked fine the other day.