Sunlight Causes Garage Door Not To Close

How to fix a garage door that keeps reversing.

Sunlight causes garage door not to close.

Garage doors operate as a system and several things could cause your door to not close in the. It had worked just fine a few hours earlier. Only during summer and only when the sun is close to the horizon the light from the sun confuses my garage door opener and in order to close the door i have to hold down the wired button which is a real pain if i m leaving. Morning but will close at night.

If the door starts down and reverses accompanied by the. Garage doors sometimes seem to have a mind of their own often deciding when and how far they want to open or close. When the lumens of light from the sun surpass that of the infrared sensor light the sensors are not able to signal one another this is why a garage door might stop closing if strong sunlight is shining on the eye of a garage door sensor. This is almost always the result of a.

Leaving it open all night is not a. If you are in a hurry and need to get your garage door closed right away stand in such a way that you cast a shadow over your garage door s beam sensor but of course don t block the beam itself just the sunlight that is shining on it and then press your remote control so that your door will close. It was late in the evening. My tools are in the garage.

The garage door did not want to close when she pressed the button on the remote. Opener lights flashing and a clicking sound this indicates a safety eye sensor issue. You push the button to close the garage door. Garage door does not close.

So the answer to the question is yes. Another thing you can do to overcome this problem permanently is to set a cylinder shaped object around each of the sensors eyes which will block the sunlight and prevent it from interfering with them. Automated garage door systems explains why this happens. Garage door fix to allow it to close when the sun is hitting the electric eye which makes it so the eye will not allow the door to go down note.

My wife had just come home. Sometimes the fix can be as simple as replacing the batteries in the opener.