Safety sensors include two mounted sections one on each side of the garage door opening.
Garage door safety sensor height.
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The current mounting height of these sensors could allow a small child to lay beneath them and still not break the beam.
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The two positioning factors are sensor alignment and sensor placement height.
Ul in the entrapment protection provisions in ul s standard ul 325 sixth edition.
The sensors use two photo.
Lower is easy to stand above with a foot on either side.
The object under the door needs to break the sensor s infrared beam in order for the sensor to work.
It is recommended that the safety eye sensors be tested monthly on all commercial and residential.
The consumer product safety commission commission or cpsc is issuing a final rule amending the regulations for the safety standard for automatic residential garage door operators to reflect changes made by underwriters laboratories inc.
That s because they might not trigger properly otherwise and people or animals could get trapped under the door as it closes.
Higher than that can miss many low lying objects including pets.
I thought 4 6 inches up is the recommended height.
Proper height for a garage door sensor is 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm.
Slide the bracket along the track so that it is approximately 6 inches above the ground.
As a general rule garage door sensors should be mounted not more than six inches above the floor.
The sensor should be facing the.
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If your garage door sensors are outside of this range remove them entirely from the garage door frame and install leveled inside the safe zone.
Press the bracket s clip onto the garage door s track near the ground.
Further the safety eye sensors should be no greater than 20 feet apart and should be positioned within 6 inches of the path of the door.
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It may be that your safety sensor is being blinded by the light of the sun.
Install the brackets provided at the same height of the beams you have just removed.
3 mount the new beam sender and receiver on opposite brackets and connect existing.
