Setting Garage Door Limits

The garage door opener limit switch tells the motor that lifts and lowers the garage door when to stop running.

Setting garage door limits.

This video demonstrates how to program the travel on a chamberlain garage door opener with a yellow learn button. Start with the garage door open. Incorrectly set limit switches may prevent your garage door from closing completely. Hold down the open travel limit button until the door has raised all the way.

You can do almost anything all you have to do is try. With these simple steps you will be able to tune up the limit switch so that your garage door recovers its optimal performance. Press the button on your remote to open the garage door. If the garage door opens correctly but fails to close completely there may be one of three common causes.

Stand on a step ladder to reach the up limit switch adjustment screw on the side of the garage door opener. Travel limits force control programming contact reverse test for models 7055 2055 3055 and 3035 kv. Garage door won t close all the way. Over time it may be necessary to adjust the switch to make the garage door close completely if it is not working properly.

How to adjust the travel limits of your garage door if it won t close all the way. The green indicator light will flash twice to confirm. Push the open set limit button then release to save the door s position as the new open limit setting. Measure the distance from the top of the garage door opening to the bottom of the garage door in inches.

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. In this video we show you how to set the travel limits and force control for genie opener models 7055 2055 3055 and 3035 kv. The close limit switch may need adjusting. Setting the down closed limits 1.

A garage door limit switch is a device that helps you set the appropriate functionality of a garage door. Bottom of the genie garage door opener. Program the garage door opener to recognize when your garage door is completely open. Turn it a full turn counter clockwise to increase the amount of downward travel by two inches and clockwise to reduce the amount of travel.

Release the down button and the long led will flash blue. Garage door doesn t open all the way.