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Different Types of Automatic Garage Door Openers and Their Safety Measure

Author: Michael Smith
by Michael Smith
Posted: Nov 20, 2017

In today’s technological world, no wonder if you find an automatic solution for the thing you have never expected and same goes with the automatic garage door. You have several options in order to make your garage access more secure and limited.

The garage door opener is an automatic device which helps you in the opening and closing the door automatically without using your body energy. But having a proper knowledge of installing them on your garage door is essential so that you can use them smoothly. If garage door opener gets stuck due to the mechanical failure can be dangerous so always keep an emergency number of your garage mechanic who could able in the hours you need. In this article we are going to discuss different types of Garage Door Opener Brisbane Techniques:

An Electric Eye Device: On both sides of garage door track, two photoelectric sensors gets installed buy these devices fixed in between the range of 4 inches to 6 inches from the door which mean if you have kids then the light beam won’t be obstructed if they crawl underneath the device. If the light beam gets obstructed by any object during the door closing process, the door automatically stops running down and rolled back. The installation of this device should be done correctly by ensuring no any child can crawl underneath the light beam. If you think of installing this equipment on the roof will be secured, then you are wrong because the light beam will be broken on each time when anyone walks through the light beam, and it can cause accidents.

A door edge sensor: It is commonly used the device on elevator doors, but some people have also installed this equipment on their residential garage doors – the strip of sensor usually mounted along the bottom edge of the door. When the sensor senses any pressure, it stops and reverses the door.

Keep in mind if both devices get installed incorrectly then they can cause you severe problems. So make sure you have made the adjustments of screws have done correctly. You can find them on the body of the garage door opener assembly. These screws usually have labels like "down-force and up-force" or "open-force and "close-force." So adjust the proper set of screws carefully. If you don’t know how to fix them, then read the user-manual carefully if you don’t have the booklet then take the help of Google, find user-manual with the name of the model. During testing of the door which has already installed with Garage Door Opener Brisbane, you need to disconnect the opener arm carefully when the door is fully closed because the resistance of some door spring is too high to pull the door up as soon as the opener has been disconnected.

The Garage Door Opener Brisbane should be plugged directly into the electrical socket without using an extension cord, a light fixture socket or GFCI protected outlet in order to perfect, and secure moving of the door.

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Brisbane garage door specialists offers a large range of garage door motors and replacement of damaged garage doors and automatic garage door openers.

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