With June declared National Garage Door Safety Month by the International Door Association (IDA), now is the perfect time to check your garage door to make sure that it's safety features are working properly. Your garage door is the largest and heaviest moving object in your house. And since families use the garage door to come in and out of the house more than any other door, you want to make sure that all of the garage door opener's safety features are properly working. And one of those key items are the safety beams.
Garage door safety beams, also know as photos eyes, are used to protect people, pets and property. Since the early 1990's, all automatic garage door openers manufactured for installation and use in the United States are required to have photo eyes that stop and reverse the garage door if a child, an animal, or other object passes in front of the sensors. When properly working, they will detect a moving object that either passes through the garage door opening or if something is obstructing the door opening. The photo eyes are considered a failsafe type of safety device.
The garage door opener will not close the garage door using normal means with the electric opener if a problem occurs within the safety system. The easiest way to determine if your photos eyes may be faulty is by placing an object directly in between the path of the two beams and then (standing away from the door) and pressing the remote or wall button to close the door. If the beams are working properly, the garage door will not close and the lights on the opener will flash.
To read more about the operation of garage door safety beams or purchase new beams/sensors for your Sears Craftsman, Liftmaster, Wayne Dalton, Chamberlain, Genie or other brand garage door opener, go to: http://www.stardoorparts.com/Garage-Door-Opener-Safety-Sensors-Beams-s/99.htm
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