My Garage Door Tries To Close Instead Of Open

This brain can wear out in time so you could need a replacement.

My garage door tries to close instead of open.

A careless or rushed parking job can cause the car s bumper to block the sensor. In the funniest of scenarios the problem will simply be due to an unplugged power cord. Your garage door sensor works by having two photo sensitive devices on either side of the garage door. If these can t see each other when the door is almost shut it will send a signal to the garage door motor to open back up.

Get logic board replacement. If your garage door is closing fully and then reversing to open again then it may be due to a problem with the close limit switch. The button can easily get dirty and stuck in the pushed position. If i remember right typically it keeps track internally where it is in the travel.

This is almost always the result of a dirty or obstructed safety feature. Many garage doors have a powerful torsion spring located horizontally above the door. Your garage door s logic board is the brain of your garage door opener. The only problem is that the garage door opener is queued to close when the door is already closed.

You might have absentmindedly unplugged the operator as you were exiting the garage through your internal door to the house. You push the button to close the garage door. When the door is lowered the spring winds up tightly creating a pulling force that helps lift the door up. This will cause the door to open and close until the button becomes unstuck.

When the logic board wears out it can cause your garage door to close then open and vice versa without explanation. If the door stops short of closing lengthen the close limit by turning the control knob in the direction indicated usually counterclockwise. It goes partway down reverses direction and goes back up again. They are usually on the motor housing and you access them by opening a panel or removing the housing cover.

There is nothing wrong with the door physically or the installation. Most garage door openers have an open and close limit control. In order to fix this you ll want to make small changes to the close limit setting until the door opener knows to stop once the door has reached the floor. Clean the button as well as the connections in the housing if this is the case.

Sometimes a garage door won t open or close for one reason only the operator has no power connection. By manage my life. I just need to know how to switch it to open. So a solution might be to take the chain off the sprocket and run it until it thinks it s all the way open or closed and stops and then put the chain on in the right place for that end of the travel.