The sensor on one side of my garage door remains yellow so keeping the door from closing.
Sensors green garage door wont close.
Start by checking if.
One of my garage door sensors is solid yellow and the other green.
You ll need to first equip yourself with a wrench of some sort and a tape measure.
The garage door sensor yellow light and the green light together create a solid illumination.
Remove any debris dust or cobwebs from the electric eye lenses on each sensor with a clean rag.
The same mechanism kicks in when other objects are placed near the door too.
Depending on the brand.
The sensors may not be aligned properly.
Could also try disconnecting the door from the chain should be a pull cord that allows this.
In general garage door sensors block the door from closing if there is an object nearby.
It blinks red and won t close the garage door.
For the door to close correctly without reversing the safety sensors need to be aligned perfectly and there should be nothing in the way of the light beam.
If your door control has a lock button it may have been turned on.
Clutter or obstructions that block the sensor are the first problems to look for if your door won t close or in extreme cases open at all.
Cycle the garage door through the opening and closing actions using the control on the garage wall.
If your garage door won t close after aligning the safety sensors you might need to replace them.
The lock button on the door control in on.
Then try closing the door manually.
It could be that they are just barely aligned but the vibration from closing causes them to intermittently break the beam.
So how do you fix this issue.
When you see you garage door opener lights flashing and the garage door will not close it could be the lock button or the safety reversing sensors.
If you do not see a solid illumination or your garage door is not working the problem is most likely due to the sensors being out of line.
I can open the garage door with my remote but not close it.
The sensors are designed to detect the presence of a car or object and not squash it but defective sensors could cause a garage door not to close as the garage door opener programmed to do so if it believes that something is blocking its path.
If necessary you can close the garage door by pressing and holding the door control push bar until down travel is completed.
Check if the safety reversing sensors are aligned.
This precaution ensures that the door doesn t close when your car is in the doorway.
When the safety sensor is not properly aligned or something is obstructing the light beam the garage door will fail to close.
Garage door opener safety sensors can go bad due to age excess sun or water exposure or from physical damage caused by lawn tools bicycles and trash cans that have been repeatedly hitting the sensors.
