How To Align The Electric Eye On A Garage Door

How to adjust a photo eye on a garage door.

How to align the electric eye on a garage door.

Simply loosen the wing nut holding the sending sensor to its galvanized steel mounting bracket and adjust its orientation until the green light on. When it lights back up again it should be in the correct position and your door should work again. The photo eye of an automatic opening garage door is a safety feature. This is something to consider if you decide to replace your garage door sensor.

Locate the photo eyes on each side of the garage door opening. Be gentle as you re making adjustments. Garage door sensors are an essential part of your garage and any malfunction can impact your safety in a. By hand make slight adjustments to your photo eye sensors until they align.

First adjust the sensor that wasn t lit. The latest garage door sensors are technologically advanced and even allow you to control the opening and closing through an app on your smartphone. Monitor the led lights on the photo eyes watch for blinking lights. If you have a laser level you can use it instead of a string to align your garage door.

They are usually black in color and will have small green or red led lights. You can often restore alignment without tools. Squeeze the tube so it makes an oval shape instead of it s normal round shape and slip it over the body of the electric eye unit so it extends about 2 3 inches 5 1 7 6 cm past the end of the electric eye. The photo eyes mount on the outside of the door tracks towards the floor.

In this case you will set up the level aligned with one sensor then adjust the opposite sensor until the beam of your laser level is hitting the sensor. Push the wall control button to open the garage door.