Simple Garage Test: Does Your Garage Door Work?
Quick Summary
This video shows you how to test and adjust your garage door, which is the largest moving part of your home. You will learn the two essential safety tests for electric closing doors: the laser beam test and the resistance test. The door must auto-reverse if the electric eye beam is broken or if it meets resistance while closing. If it fails the resistance test, the video demonstrates how to adjust the closing force knob on the opener. This information is crucial for safety, protecting children, pets, and objects from being crushed by the heavy door.
What you'll need and what to do
To try what's taught in the video, here's what you'll need and the exact steps to follow.
What You Will Need
• Garage door with an electric closer
• Access to the adjustment knob on the back of the door opener
Action Steps
Testing the Laser Beam
1. Locate the electric eye that creates a laser beam across the door opening.
2. Start the garage door closing.
3. Break the laser beam while the door is closing.
4. Confirm the door auto-reverses and goes back up.
Testing Resistance
5. Start the garage door closing.
6. Apply resistance (such as pressing down) on the door while it is coming down.
7. Observe if the door auto-reverses immediately.
Adjusting the Closing Force
8. If the door fails the resistance test, locate the knob on the back of the opener that adjusts the closing force.
9. Crank the closing force knob down by about half, as it may be turned up too high.
10. Retest the door by starting it closing and applying resistance to confirm it now auto-reverses.
Word for word video Transcript
Hey everyone Brandon Nelson and in one minute I'm going to show you how to test and adjust the largest moving part on a home the garage of vehicle door so if your vehicle door has an electric closer like this there are two different reasons why the door should auto-reverse when it's closing let's look at those two things you see this little electric eye right here it's making a laser beam with another one on the other side the door is closing and the beam is broken the door should auto-reverse let's test that first okay doors coming down now picture your three-year-old and I tricycle or a cat running through you break that beam door goes back up that's working perfectly okay the next test is resistance when the doors coming down we're gonna put some resistance on it oh that should auto reversed we got to adjust that on the back of the opener this little knob right here adjust closing force this one's turned up way too high so I'm going to crank it down by about half and let's retest the door the doors closing we apply the resistance and bam that's what we want to see this has been Brandon Nelson for one minute we'll see you next time.
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