The factory setting for the speed is the maximum for both the opening and closing of the opener.
Garage door opener speed.
The average speed of a residential garage door is around seven inches per second in other words every seven inches the garage door moves up or down equals one second of operation time.
The liftmaster 3595 3 4 hp heavy duty chain drive garage door opener is one of the only three professionally installed garage door openers with 3 4 horsepower strength.
That translates into roughly 12 15 seconds of operation time to open or close the garage door.
However an average residential garage door is still designed to move at the rate of about seven inches per second.
Program your garage door opening closing speed.
Most new garage door openers are preset to the lowest.
You can time your garage door and if it takes longer than 15 seconds to open or close you may need to have your garage door serviced to help get it back up to speed.
Press the tabs on either side of the access panel on the opener and tilt up or down to remove the panel.
Warehouses and other commercial enterprises often have high speed doors designed to open and close extra fast to meet the demands of an industrial environment.
There are three speed settings for both the opening and closing for these openers.
The two types of garage door openers in this video are the odyssey and destiny openers.