Garage Door Auto Reverse Pressure

Make small adjustments at a time to the force limits retesting after each adjustment.

Garage door auto reverse pressure.

On the garage door motor there will be two knobs or dials to adjust the opener and the reverse sensor. Test door opener monthly. After adjusting either the force or the limit of travel retest the door opener. The auto reverse test evaluates the pressure activated auto reverse function of a garage door.

This is real safety hazard. Adjust the garage door opener mechanism. Test it by placing a 2 by 4 flat on the garage floor and under the path of the door. If the door does not automatically reverse when it hits the 2 by 4 the opener must be adjusted.

There are two common safety features with a functional auto reverse system. If you ve tested your garage door opener s auto reverse and found it requires too much force for the door to reverse or it doesn t reverse at all you can adjust the settings on the garage door opener controls. You can also call it the contact reversal test pressure test and performance test. Once the down close force adjustment is set you will set the up open force limit.

Failure to adjust the opener properly may cause severe injury or death. The garage door must reverse on contact with a 11 2 inch object or a 2 by 4 board laid flat on the floor. To access the controls use a stepladder to reach the main part of the opener s motor. If the door continues to close the opener is not safe and should be released from the overhead door until repairs can be made.

In approximately half of my inspections the automatic garage door opener does not auto reverse when met with resistance. Injuries from garage doors account for about 20 000 er visits every year and 60 children have been killed since 1982 from garage doors that did not auto reverse when met with contact. The auto reverse test. I the opener motor and ii infrared sensors.