If your garage door faces south and the door will not go down.
Garage door safety sensor height.
As a general rule garage door sensors should be mounted not more than six inches above the floor.
Press the bracket s clip onto the garage door s track near the ground.
That s because they might not trigger properly otherwise and people or animals could get trapped under the door as it closes.
I thought 4 6 inches up is the recommended height.
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.
The two positioning factors are sensor alignment and sensor placement height.
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Lower is easy to stand above with a foot on either side.
Install the brackets provided at the same height of the beams you have just removed.
The sensors use two photo.
Higher than that can miss many low lying objects including pets.
It may be that your safety sensor is being blinded by the light of the sun.
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Auto reverse sensors mounting height the height of these auto reverse sensors on the garage doors was roughly 1 5 feet off the ground.
3 mount the new beam sender and receiver on opposite brackets and connect existing.
The object under the door needs to break the sensor s infrared beam in order for the sensor to work.
Slide the bracket along the track so that it is approximately 6 inches above the ground.
The current mounting height of these sensors could allow a small child to lay beneath them and still not break the beam.
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Safety sensors include two mounted sections one on each side of the garage door opening.
Proper height for a garage door sensor is 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm.
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It is recommended that the safety eye sensors be tested monthly on all commercial and residential.
Further the safety eye sensors should be no greater than 20 feet apart and should be positioned within 6 inches of the path of the door.
