Garage Door Shuts Then Opens

Remove the bell wire from the single button control station s terminals and operate the garage door opener from the remotes.

Garage door shuts then opens.

If this solves the problem then the control station is faulty or there is a short circuit in the wire. If your garage door is closing fully and then reversing to open again then it may be due to a problem with the close limit switch. Open the garage door and watch it closely as it opens. This is almost always the result of a dirty or obstructed safety feature.

They are misaligned this is the most likely problem and the most common issue with garage door openers. As these wires short against the housing the electrical impulse causes the door opener to activate. When your liftmaster garage door opener opens and closes by itself here are the troubleshooting tips you need to follow. Your travel down setting needs to be adjusted.

If your garage door won t open or close the problem could be a bent track a broken torsion spring or a bad capacitor int he motor housing. A careless or rushed parking job can cause the car s bumper to block the sensor. These limits set the distance the door will open or close before stopping. You push the button to close the garage door.

As is the case with so many issues at the home there s no one reason why your garage door closes then opens. Disconnect the control station. Your garage door is programmed to travel a certain distance before it closes. It goes partway down reverses direction and goes back up again.

If these can t see each other when the door is almost shut it will send a signal to the garage door motor to open back up. This is not a common problem at all but it could happen. The solution is usually one or more of the following. In order to fix this you ll want to make small changes to the close limit setting until the door opener knows to stop once the door has reached the floor.

Your garage door sensor works by having two photo sensitive devices on either side of the garage door. In the down direction if the limit is set beyond the point at which the door closes fully the door will hit the floor and act as if it is hitting something and the safety feature tells it to reverse. When the garage door opens about halfway or 5 feet from the ground and stops the up limit switch needs to be adjusted. You have an open limit and a close limit on your garage door opener.

If it closes only partway the safety sensors are usually responsible clean the lenses or realign them and make sure there are no obstacles blocking the beam. The sensors are dirty wipe lenses with a clean soft cloth. Here s a rundown of some of the possible reasons this can be happening.