Overhead Garage Door Legacy Sensors Not Working

Opto interutor speed sensor wheel for an overhead door legacy model 696 and 496 garage door opener.

Overhead garage door legacy sensors not working.

Video of the day. Sometimes however remotes stop working and signals are lost. If this is your situation. This may sound obvious but your garage door transmitters need power to work.

If the door does not close completely without hesitation. The purpose of a photo eye sensor is to detect if anything is blocking the path of the garage door. This opto wheel is for generation 3 legacy garage door openers. If they re turned on in both the sensors then there is no issue with the power supply.

Photo eye sensors detect objects as well as people. To help you troubleshoot your garage door issues here are the top 10 reasons your garage door won t work. A common cause of a malfunctioning garage door sensor is lack of power supply. How garage door sensors work.

Cycle the garage door through the opening and closing actions using the control on the garage wall or the remote unit from a vehicle. An infrared light runs between two photo eyes. If you find the lights turned off in one or both the sensors it indicates that there is a problem in power supply. In the majority of cases a photo eye sensor will be installed on the garage door sensor.

If you do not hear a click coming from the motor housing then the relay on the circuit board is bad. To troubleshoot this situation you can simply reset and reprogram the openers in just minutes from your garage. For those who are unfamiliar with how garage door sensors work there are two sensors each positioned on a side. If any of these sensors should happen to get bumped or misaligned the infra red beam would be thrown off and the garage door won t go down.

If you need an earlier style opto wheel please call our help desk to order. The transmitter batteries are dead. Look for small led lights on the sensors. The clicking noise you are looking for is the sound that comes from the relay on the circuit board.

If the batteries in your transmitter are dead the transmitter won t be able to send a signal to your garage door to open. Legacy garage doors allow you to program your motor to a variety of remotes allowing for wireless entry. One of the sensors sends an infra red beam to the other sensor.