How To Install Garage Door Safety Sensor

Loosen the screws that mount each of your garage door sensors.

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. The white wires hook up to the second terminal. Reattach the cut wires to the new sensors. 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.

The best universal garage door sensors. The safety sensors black wires hooks up to the third terminal. Use a pair of wire cutters to cut the white and black wire about an inch from the sensor. Connect the new safety sensor wires.

If done correctly you ll have disconnected your safety sensors from your garage door. Installing safety sensors on a garage door opener 1. However if you do decide to replace your old sensors here are a few that i. Just loosen them enough so that the mounting brackets can slide up and down but won t do so unless you intentionally move them.

Slide the bracket along the track so that it. If the third terminal is not there it is not possible to hook up safety sensors. Press the bracket s clip onto the garage door s track near the ground. Often the only way to tell whether your garage door sensor is universal is to check the manual or contact the manufacturer.

Cut the wires about 1 inch 2 5 cm from the safety sensor. Remove the wing nut from the safety sensor. Don t take them all the way out. Use a step ladder to access the garage door opener s power cord and motor unit.

Terminal two would have three white wires connected to it.