Garage Door Safety Sensor Height

Proper height for a garage door sensor is 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm.

Garage door safety sensor height.

For all garage door openers we have parts for all brands fast and free shipping 734 568 0287. Lower is easy to stand above with a foot on either side. It is recommended that the safety eye sensors be tested monthly on all commercial and residential. 41a5034 liftmaster sears craftsman sensor cells photo eyes garage door opener.

Press the bracket s clip onto the garage door s track near the ground. Garage door opener safety sensors universal photo cells safety beams. 4 6 out of 5 stars 32. 3 mount the new beam sender and receiver on opposite brackets and connect existing.

The consumer product safety commission commission or cpsc is issuing a final rule amending the regulations for the safety standard for automatic residential garage door operators to reflect changes made by underwriters laboratories inc. Install the brackets provided at the same height of the beams you have just removed. Auto reverse sensors mounting height the height of these auto reverse sensors on the garage doors was roughly 1 5 feet off the ground. The current mounting height of these sensors could allow a small child to lay beneath them and still not break the beam.

Further the safety eye sensors should be no greater than 20 feet apart and should be positioned within 6 inches of the path of the door. It may be that your safety sensor is being blinded by the light of the sun. The object under the door needs to break the sensor s infrared beam in order for the sensor to work. I thought 4 6 inches up is the recommended height.

Chamberlain liftmaster craftsman garage door opener replacement safety sensors g801cb p includes 2 sensors mounting brackets and hardware. If your garage door sensors are outside of this range remove them entirely from the garage door frame and install leveled inside the safe zone. The sensors use two photo. If your garage door faces south and the door will not go down.

Safety sensors include two mounted sections one on each side of the garage door opening. That s because they might not trigger properly otherwise and people or animals could get trapped under the door as it closes. Ul in the entrapment protection provisions in ul s standard ul 325 sixth edition. As a general rule garage door sensors should be mounted not more than six inches above the floor.

Higher than that can miss many low lying objects including pets. Slide the bracket along the track so that it is approximately 6 inches above the ground.