Force Settings Garage Door

A garage door opener with an improperly adjusted closing force can damage the door or worse injure a child.

Force settings garage door. If your garage door freezes on the way up or if it stops and reverses directions on the way down you may need to increase the force adjustments on your garage door opener. You can use both the up and down arrow buttons for adjustment. When the garage door opens about halfway or 5 feet from the ground and stops the up limit switch needs to be adjusted. It is the amount of force exerted by the garage door opener when closing the door.

This video demonstrates how to adjust force on a liftmaster garage door opener with manual adjustment controls. Press and hold the down arrow button until the garage door reaches your desired down closed position. If when closing your door its bottom edge contacts the floor and then reverses direction and raises again you will need to adjust your close force. The garage door opener light will blink twice and the down arrow light will begin to blink.

Check the space under the bottom door edge to be sure it is tight against the floor surface. When the garage door is in your desired down closed position press and release the. Erase the previously saved open and close travel limits from the power head unit s memory before adjusting the travel limits and force settings for your garage door opener. If the force is too low the door may not close completely before reversing directions and opening.

From inside your garage close your garage door. This video from sears partsdirect shows how to check the garage door for smooth travel adjust force settings and test the new settings to make sure the door closes safely. Your garage door opener is now connecting tap finish on the success screen. Open the garage door and watch it closely as it opens.

Then try the above. Android users go to step 11 select your home wi fi network from the list enter your network password and tap next. Garage door force setting test. This video details how to adjust the opener force and travel of the door.

Go back to the devices screen. If these steps don t work go up to your garage door opener motor unit and clear the wi fi settings. Hold down the open set and close set buttons on the power head unit control panel until the green indicator light flashes to confirm that the travel limit settings have been erased.