Fixing Garage Door Sensors

Garage door sensors are neat things. They send anneed sensor cables as you can easily re-use the
invisible beam to each other across the garage doorexisting ones in your garage that are attached to
opening. If an object of thing breaks the beam, theyyour broken devices. Once you have the new
won't let the door shut. Cooler yet is that if the doorsensors, simple replace the existing ones by mounting
is in the motion of closing and something breaks thethem onto the door track and then connecting the
beam, the door opener will stop and reverse and liftwires.
the door back up. This a very neat feature whichThese devices have little lights on them that tell you
keeps kids, pets, and other object safe from aif they are receiving the beam or not. The light will
heavy garage door.illuminate green if the beam is receiving between the
The truth is that these little sensors are very cheaptwo sensors. If the light is red or orange, then you
and easy to replace. Most of the times these littleneed to adjust your placement of the sensor to pick
devices get sheared off by a car tire, get damageup the beam to work properly.
by things in the garage, or just break. The easiestWe hope this article helps you with your efforts to
way to get new ones is to go to your local hardwarekeep your family and garage safe!
store, such as a Lowes or Home Depot. You don't