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Nah just checked, no plugs wires come straight outta the sensors. ones gotta green light and the other an amber light. The amber light stays on but the green light goes off when you block the laser. Of course it is working now so I cant tell if anything I'm doin is helping.
 
04viperram said:
Nah just checked, no plugs wires come straight outta the sensors. ones gotta green light and the other an amber light. The amber light stays on but the green light goes off when you block the laser. Of course it is working now so I cant tell if anything I'm doin is helping.
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Yeah, You've got the newer sensors. The amber is the sender and the green is the receiver. All it takes is a millisecond of the receiver being blocked and the door will reverse. You may not even be able to detect it by watching it. Trace the wire back and see if any staples have caught the wire or they may be too tight and worn through the insulation. See if it's being pinched anywhere else in it's routing. Thank the Government for those sensors. It's all part of them trying to make everything idiot proof.
 
viperhauler said:
put your head under the door and have the wife close it:D
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Only if his head is thicker than a 2x4 laying flat. A properly set motor will reverse if it hits one but will close all the way if the opening is clear. Another safety feature.
 
viperhauler said:
put your head under the door and have the wife close it:D
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why dont you go over there and lay your pecker under the door then let him close it ,,,,i would be able to hear you squell all the way to houston :aetsch:BAM
 
I just had a new 14X18 put up in the shop and we added the electric opener. They added those lasers to it and told me that the door will not run with out them. Everything can be altered somehow, how do I bypass them dang things?
 
yellowfever#154 said:
I just had a new 14X18 put up in the shop and we added the electric opener. They added those lasers to it and told me that the door will not run with out them. Everything can be altered somehow, how do I bypass them dang things?
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I am not aware of a way to bypass them. I don't know what the motor is measuring to determine that the sensors are in the system. Might be as simple as wiring in a resistor but I have no idea what size.

Even commercial motors have them now. The safety sensors were just a residential thing but now they are mandatory on commercial motors too. I just tried to order 9 commercial motors without the sensors because my customer didn't want them either. All 9 showed up with the sensor system.

You can move them to a different location (up by the motor itself) but as a door installer I have to (legally) put them where the law mandates.
 
Last year when I replaced an opener for my dad I just mounted those damn things up by the motor. Completely out of the way and works just fine.
 
Alberta-SRT said:
Last year when I replaced an opener for my dad I just mounted those damn things up by the motor. Completely out of the way and works just fine.
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Yeap......you can do that. As long as the sensors see one another, they can be mounted anywhere.
 
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