That’s great information. I have a three car garage, all with their own opener. I was having a problem with door no. 1. It had no power going to it at all. I swapped the sensors with a door no. 2 and still no luck. After watching your video, I discovered that there was interference between the 2 doors. I corrected the sensors on door 2 and now everything works. Thanks for the great info. I’ve been searching for a a solution for 2 days and I have a technician coming out tomorrow. Thanks to you, I have corrected the issue, I can cancel there service call, and save some money.
I'm so glad your comment was first. I bought replacement safe-t-beans only to discover they don't work either. After reading your comment and finding a relevant section in the video, I started to play with the second garage door safe-t-beans and lo and behold, broken one started working again. Thank you and the Flannel Guy for pointing me in the right direction (since Genie Troubleshooting guide was useless)
You inspired me to try and swap wires from adjacent working sending unit to troubleshoot mine. It worked! I could not find videos on how these units are wired. Mine has 4 wires going into one side.
I didn’t know the wire orientation mattered. Gonna double check this when I get home. I feel I might just need to replace the entire wire to the unit. It is very brittle.
Great video. Only suggestion is using a level that can be attached to the rope line. They sell small ones with hooks that can be attached to any thin rope line or chalk line.
Thank you. My garage door opener hasn't worked since my neighbor in our huge condominium complex had his garage door replaced. At first I suspected the garage door company did something to damage my unit. Today I noticed that both sensors are directly next to each other as mentioned in this video. I checked all the other garage doors in the complex and I noticed that the sensors are all on opposite sides of the other garage doors except for the one that was just installed by this company. One would think that a garage door company would know something as basic as this. Perhaps they did and were trying to sucker me for some more business. If that was their intention it almost worked. Thank you again for the advice.
The issue is these garage door sensors are so outdated in their technology. Take a look at a sensor that can solve the sun issue, alignment issue, coverage issue and also help guide your car in the garage! Let me know if you want to give this a try?
show me close up where the wires go on the motor itself ,, which wire goes where ,,mine has 4 of those plugs ,,, 4 wires but where the heck do they go ,, i bought a used opener and it still doesnt work no matter where i put those wires
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Your last tip worked for me. I switched the sensors around and no issues after that. Thank you!
Last tip, GENIUS!!! I was wondering why my new opener was operating properly but the stupid light kept blinking.
Great advice, Thank you for solving an issue that had me stumped!
That’s great information. I have a three car garage, all with their own opener. I was having a problem with door no. 1. It had no power going to it at all. I swapped the sensors with a door no. 2 and still no luck. After watching your video, I discovered that there was interference between the 2 doors. I corrected the sensors on door 2 and now everything works. Thanks for the great info. I’ve been searching for a a solution for 2 days and I have a technician coming out tomorrow. Thanks to you, I have corrected the issue, I can cancel there service call, and save some money.
I'm so glad your comment was first. I bought replacement safe-t-beans only to discover they don't work either. After reading your comment and finding a relevant section in the video, I started to play with the second garage door safe-t-beans and lo and behold, broken one started working again. Thank you and the Flannel Guy for pointing me in the right direction (since Genie Troubleshooting guide was useless)
Thanks for posting !!!👌👍
Thank you! I placed a box between the two adjacent garage sensors. The sensor blinking stops and the garage door operates normally now.
Thank you. Will give it a try. Hope it works.
You inspired me to try and swap wires from adjacent working sending unit to troubleshoot mine. It worked! I could not find videos on how these units are wired. Mine has 4 wires going into one side.
glad it worked for you! please share the video so that youtube will suggest it to more people
This video helped me thanks a lot. Turn out it was just the sensors not aligned
I didn’t know the wire orientation mattered. Gonna double check this when I get home. I feel I might just need to replace the entire wire to the unit. It is very brittle.
Thank you!
Interference was the winner for me.... thanks
thank you for watching! please share!
Last tip worked! Thank you
thank you for watching. please share the video
Great video. Only suggestion is using a level that can be attached to the rope line. They sell small ones with hooks that can be attached to any thin rope line or chalk line.
Thank you. My garage door opener hasn't worked since my neighbor in our huge condominium complex had his garage door replaced. At first I suspected the garage door company did something to damage my unit. Today I noticed that both sensors are directly next to each other as mentioned in this video. I checked all the other garage doors in the complex and I noticed that the sensors are all on opposite sides of the other garage doors except for the one that was just installed by this company. One would think that a garage door company would know something as basic as this. Perhaps they did and were trying to sucker me for some more business. If that was their intention it almost worked. Thank you again for the advice.
you are welcome. please share the video
The issue is these garage door sensors are so outdated in their technology. Take a look at a sensor that can solve the sun issue, alignment issue, coverage issue and also help guide your car in the garage! Let me know if you want to give this a try?
Thanks just fixed my install. I got hung up after up limit.
One of the sensors was not on. Thank you!
Is it normal to have one red and one green? I remember back in the day both where red
check the instructions for your model.
show me close up where the wires go on the motor itself ,, which wire goes where ,,mine has 4 of those plugs ,,, 4 wires but where the heck do they go ,, i bought a used opener and it still doesnt work no matter where i put those wires
I cannot show you. no way to post a picture here
My green light is solid but the red is completely off….no flash or nothing….ty
It only opens when I hold the button down. Remote won’t work either
that is a whole separate set of problems. Not related to the sensor/light
It could be that one of the wires for one of the sensors is not connected
Interference was my problem… it’s been KILLING ME😮
thank you for watching
I dont see the link for the lazer level?
here it is.. amzn.to/3hH8TjD