How To Fix Garage Door Sensor From Sun

Join us as we show the step by step process on aligning your safety reverse sensors.

How to fix garage door sensor from sun.

Remove any debris dust or cobwebs from the electric eye lenses on each sensor with a clean rag. If your garage door faces south and the door will not go down. Just moving them back might solve the problem since they ll be blocked by the walls. But avoid blocking the actual sensor part with it.

It may be that your safety sensor is being blinded by the light of the sun. Garage door fix to allow it to close when the sun is hitting the electric eye which makes it so the eye will not allow the door to go down note. A friend suggested i use toilet paper rolls or maybe some pvc to shield the sensor from the sun and direct the beam to the other sensor and that s a good idea but it ll mean i have to change how the sensors are mounted to the track and move them out a bit. Another thing you can do to overcome this problem permanently is to set a cylinder shaped object around each of the sensors eyes which will block the sunlight and prevent it from interfering with them.

If you are in a hurry and need to get your garage door closed right away stand in such a way that you cast a shadow over your garage door s beam sensor but of course don t block the beam itself just the sunlight that is shining on it and then press your remote control so that your door will close. Move the sensors into the garage and out of the sun switch sides the sides of the sensors putting cardboard like a toilet paper tube around the sensor will block much of the sunlight. The receiving sensor should mounted on the side of the garage door opening that receives the least amount of direct sunlight.