How to align your garage door sensors.
Garage door opener sensor alignment.
Slowly rotate sensor back aligning sensor with sending sensor until it lights up green again.
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.
Join us as we show the step by step process on aligning your safety reverse sensors.
Firstly you ll need to cut off the power to your garage door properly.
Once the light is off wait 10 seconds.
When you have a strong green light put it back into the bracket and put the wing nut back on.
In this video i show you how to realign your garage door sensors so that the garage door can function properly.
Proper height for a garage door sensor is 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm.
If you have a laser level you can use it instead of a string to align your garage door.
Point the sensor away from the sending sensor so that the light is completely off.
The best way to do this is to trip the fuse to your garage in the breaker box.