Garage Door Opening And Closing Repeatedly

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Garage door opening and closing repeatedly.

The garage door keeps going up and down. Your garage door has set limit switches that instruct the motor when to stop running both when it is opening and when it is closing. An exposed spot or a short circuit in the small gauge wire that leads from the garage. If the door stops short of closing lengthen the close limit by turning the control knob in the direction indicated usually counterclockwise.

If you push the garage door opener switch when the sensors are obstructed or not aligned properly your garage door will reverse and the lights will blink 10 times. It may be your garage door sensor. When the logic board wears out it can cause your garage door to close then open and vice versa without explanation. If you clear all debris and any buildup from the sensors near the floor of your garage door tracks but the motion of your garage door tends to be partially closing and then reversing and opening again you may have a misaligned sensor.

Get logic board replacement. They are usually on the motor housing and you access them by opening a panel or removing the housing cover. Your garage door most likely uses two sensors to trigger its reverse mechanism. If you notice this happen start by seeing if anything is obstructing the sensors field of view.

Before you break out your toolbox or call a professional for help take a look at your garage door s threshold. If the garage door opens correctly but fails to close completely there may be one of three common causes. Your garage door opens when it hits the ground. You push the button to close the garage door.

Inspect the control wiring. Most garage door openers have an open and close limit control. The garage door goes down then back up. To troubleshoot the garage door opener button make sure it s clean and free of debris.

Clean the button as well as the connections in the housing if this is the case. In rare instances a nearby neighbor may have a garage door opener set to the same wireless. There are four common problems with garage door sensors three of these homeowners can fix themselves. This will cause the door to open and close until the button becomes unstuck.

If this is not the issue then your sensors will probably need to be aligned. Your garage door opens immediately after closing. This is almost always the result of a dirty or obstructed safety feature. Garage door opener keeps going back up.

The close limit switch may need adjusting. In some rare cases a garage door will open or close by itself even if the homeowner hasn t instructed the automatic garage door opener to do so. It goes partway down reverses direction and goes back up again.