How To Wire Garage Door Sensors

Connect the solid white wires the same way.

How to wire garage door sensors.

Garage door sensors work by shooting a beam of infrared light across the entrance of your garage to the sensor on the other side. Use a pair of wire cutters to cut the white and black wire about an inch from the sensor. How to install safety sensors correctly. The sensors are normally about 4 inches above the ground.

Watch this video to see how the pro s do it. Collection of garage door safety sensor wiring diagram. Higher than that can miss many low lying objects including pets. Installing the sensors as part of the garage door opener installation requires attention to wiring and adjustments to the devices themselves.

If you own a liftmaster chamberlain or craftsman garage door opener the same safety sensor will work on all three brands. 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. A wiring diagram is a streamlined traditional photographic depiction of an electric circuit. Loosen the two wire terminal screws on the sensor one full turn with a phillips head screwdriver.

Cut the wires about 1 inch 2 5 cm from the safety sensor. Lower is easy to stand above with a foot on either side. Strip 1 2 inch of insulation off each wire with wire strippers. As we have established earlier garage door safety sensors are not universal and will only work with garage door openers of the same brand.

It shows the parts of the circuit as streamlined forms and the power and also signal links between the gadgets. Connect the black striped control wire to the black striped safety sensor wire using the crimp wire nut. If done correctly you ll have disconnected your safety sensors from your garage door. Connect the new safety sensor wires separate the control wires on the new sensor.

Insert each wire end in between the flat plate under the screws and tighten the screws to secure the wires. Here are the two main exceptions to the rule. 1 push the safety sensor with attached carriage bolt. This video will help you in wiring up your safety sensors if you have p.