How To Install Garage Door Safety Sensor

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.

How to install garage door safety 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. Installing safety sensors on a garage door opener 1. Terminal two would have three white wires connected to it. Often the only way to tell whether your garage door sensor is universal is to check the manual or contact the manufacturer.

The best universal garage door sensors. Pull the sensor from the bracket. Just loosen them enough so that the mounting brackets can slide up and down but won t do so unless you intentionally move them. If the third terminal is not there it is not possible to hook up safety sensors.

Use a pair of wire cutters to cut the white and black wire about an inch from the sensor. Press the bracket s clip onto the garage door s track near the ground. Slide the bracket along the track so that it. Cut the wires about 1 inch 2 5 cm from the safety sensor.

Connect the new safety sensor wires. Remove the wing nut from the safety sensor. Loosen the screws that mount each of your garage door sensors. Don t take them all the way out.

The safety sensors black wires hooks up to the third terminal. However if you do decide to replace your old sensors here are a few that i. Push the safety sensor with attached carriage bolt against its supplied bracket and hand secure the two parts. Reattach the cut wires to the new sensors.

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