Garage Door Requires Buttom Hold Down To Close

When the door is up the sensor lights are off.

Garage door requires buttom hold down to close.

Check that you re using it within the range required for your opener. Yes there is a problem with the photoelectric eyes. The wall button and remote work fine for opening door but i have to hold down the wall button to close it. The majority of garage doors manufactured since the early 1990s are equipped with this safety feature.

So if you have to do this to close the door it means the sensor is malfunctioning. I have to hold down the bottom in the garage to bring the door down. Something is blocking the beam either the sender or receiver is misaligned kicked. After i hold the button down to close it the sensor lights come back on.

But seems to be unable to close all the way. Does anyone know how to fix this. My garage door will not close unless i hold the button down. When you pressed the button did the opener lights blink at you.

Can you hold the button down to make the door go down. Tuesday june 26 2018 you are overriding the infrared beam sensor when you hold down the wall button continuously while the garage door is closing. Why do i have to hold down the button to close the garage door. If your garage door won t close all the way the problem could be due to a blocked photo eye.

When i disconnect the carriage and manually move door it seems to move smoothly in both directions. If i let go of the bottom the door stops. If i just press and release the button the door starts to close then reverses. The problem starts when you hit the button to close it and the door starts to close.

Garage door won t go down most common problems when a door won t go down. My garage door will open by just pressing the button once but to close it i have to hold in the button until it fully closes.