How To Replace A Garage Door Sensor - Easy!
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Do you have a faulty garage door sensor that needs to be changed? This video shows you the steps I take almost daily to replace sensors with new ones.
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Thank you very much! I fixed this problem after watching your video and cost me only $30. I really appreciate your work
Thank you very much for taking the time to make this video! Just followed your video and fixed it in a cost effective manner.
Thank you so much! This saved my whole Saturday.
Your videos are so easy to follow and understand. How would I go about getting you to help me on a garage issue that I have?
Send me an email I’ll do what I can (:
Garagedoorguidance@yahoo.com
Thanks for this.
Good stuff. Thanks!
Thank you! Very helpful!
Thanks
Thanks buddy.
Thank you for the video. So the wire connectors are not module plugs where they just unplug from the sensor and so is that why you had to splice them instead?
I don’t believe they plug in no
That would be too intelligent of a design and thus a design flaw!!
Thank you! 👍👍👍
Thanks for the video! Silly question… Do I need to change both sensors or can I just change the green sensor side since that is the only one that seems to have a problem. I’m assuming I need to do both since one is the sender and receiver but thought I would ask :). Thanks again!
Sorry for the delayed response, yes I’d recommend just replacing both (:
Thank you we do need rerun off the power?
No
great video thanks :D
Can you use any brand of garbage door sensors with any brand of garage motor?
They’re not all compatible that way, you’d want to stay within your brand
@@GarageDoorGuidance okay, thanks!
thx
So, how to go about it if you have two green cables going to the sensor?
One of those wires must be different then it’s just a matter of matching it up everywhere
Yes i had some garage door repairman come out and said it'd be 400 bucks to fix which as a teacher Iw as like um no not right now....I figured I can just pull it up and down, but this looks easy enought but I'm wary about the wires; could i have an electrican fix this for me who won't charge me taht much?
Those wires are low voltage I don’t think you need an electrician but you can call and ask or call a couple different companies to try to find an honest one that’ll charge $100
I did the replacement, but part of the garage door is rubbing against the back part of the clips. It looks like as the garage door goes down, it shifts slightly and the bolt that holds the cable at the bottom of the door rubs against the 2 flat part of the clips. The original mount was using one screw to hold the bracket to the rail. I can't mount it to the wall because the clip is not long enough. I have it temporarily on top of a can near the door. Any thoughts?
You can bend those parts off, and mount it to the track like it was before ? I am familiar with that situation and that’s an option.
@@GarageDoorGuidance Thanks. I was hoping someone else had this issue. I was hoping for another option that wouldn't require damaging the clip, but I may not have another choice.
It is the easiest option
Nice guide! Is it not necessary to cut power at the breaker for this?
Not at all
@@GarageDoorGuidance great thanks! And I'm guessing the process is the same for the other side?
Correct (:
@@GarageDoorGuidance awesome, and one more thing before I leave you alone
So the problem I'm having is that when the sun shines towards the direction of my sensor (the amber/yellow one), my doors have a hard time closing due to what I'm guessing is sunlight interference. I looked into this problem and apparently it's the receiving green one that's supposed to be affected by light and not the sender
So do you think that my sensors have just gone bad?
I have the exact same sensors as the ones in this video
My recommendation is try to swap sides, snip, switch sides and splice them back into the wiring. In my experience that solved the problem
How did you get the wire on the sensor to coil up or was it like that when you bought them?
Use a rod or screwdriver and wrap it around it, slide it off and it should stay nice and curly
Thanks
Can I use any brand name for garage door sensor because my moto liftmaster 17yrs since I bought my house. I try looking up part number to match my moto but there don’t have it. Please any advice for me can change my garage door sensor. Thanks a lot
You should be able to use any Liftmaster sensors, like these amzn.to/3QatjAN
@@GarageDoorGuidance so any liftmaster moto will compatible to any sensor the same brand name. Is doesn’t matter difference part number. My moto has this part number liftmaster 41a5021-1h-315. One more things I don’t know what is exactly problem my garage door because sometime I closed then a moment it reserved back. It wasn’t happen all the time. I did check 2 motion sensor, one is with green light and one with yellow light. I did align the yellow one but still. After I did some research they said I have to replace new sensor. May you please any advice with this my garage door problem. I’m appreciated for all your help.
Do you have to turn off power / circuit breaker to cut and replace wire?
No you do not need to
@@GarageDoorGuidance why not?
Cause the man said so @@afa6361
Tried wiring white to white and black/white to black/white and vice versa not working 🙄. Any idea what the issue might be?
Firstly would be to make sure they’re the same sensors that work with your opener
Have you tried to follow the line to see if it’s stapled through anywhere ? Also I’d check the back of the motor to make sure nothing is lose there too.
You can also try to wire them directly to the unit ( take the sensor with just a few inches of the wire and try to connect that to se did the light lights up )
I had to install the wires on this backwards. When I did black to black and white to white the light did not turn on. When I reversed the wires the lights turned on and everything worked.
Sometimes it’s backward at the unit but that’s ok
The instructions said the black wire should go on screw 3 and the white wire on screw 2. I had to put black on screw 2 and white on screw 3.
There could be a splice somewhere that was crossed, should be totally fine though
My lights won’t come on both ways (black black white white or BW BW) does it matter how much of the wire I spliced? Did half an inch but still
1/2 inch is plenty. you need to see if your wires are connected to the garage door unit properly. Do you have a multi meter to check voltage or continuity?
Does the sensor have to match the motor brand??
Usually yes
So what if the lights don't come on after the splice?
Were they on originally ? I’d follow the wiring to see if they’re stapled through somewhere or at the unit itself to make sure they’re plugged into the correct places
@@GarageDoorGuidance Lights were on before. All connections are good. I think the actual eyes lasers might be bad.
How do you know which is the sender and which is the receiver
Yellow sends green receives
Why wouldnt you turn the power off first?
You can definitely turn the power off if you’d like
Are those wires running low voltage like a doorbell?
The current required to operate the photoeyes is nowhere near enough to penetrate the skin or deliver any sort of shock
@Everynamestaken69 thank you for that answer, I had assumed that, but I'm not an electrician
Why does bro have a carpeted garage
Plenty of reasons lol it’s epoxied now though 🙃