How to Disable Garage Door Sensors

How to Disable Garage Door Sensors - How I dealt with my malfunctioning garage door sensors. CAUTION: I recommend you do NOT perform this modification if you have any safety concerns about the safe operation of your garage door. I am only showing what I did in my situation, you decide what to do in yours. I am not responsible for your actions, do this modification at your own risk.

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[johnwahlfors]

after 15 years fighting our garage door, and 2 hours trying to figure how to bypass the sensors, I found this. Thank you, no problems now

[docmanutoob]

There is a simple fix to the issue with the sun. The manufacturer sells cardboard sensor protectors They take about 5 minutes to install.

[BamaStreetRacingSociety]

I own a small business installing garage doors as well as repairing them I have been doing this line of work for 15 years and have seen this done lots of times and can say it’s saved a lot of people some headaches but I can say if you do this just be extra cautious if you have small children I’ve also seen the consequences that can occur from doing this. If I can give any advice at all that will help someone that does this it would be to make sure your down force sensitivity is properly adjusted. Newer openers have digital sensitivity settings so it’s automatically set when setting the opener up. Hope someone reads this and it saves them from having a door fall on their car or jump track. 🙏

[FredrickII]

Way to go. These sensors are for the manufacturers’ liability, not primarily for customers.
They are a pain in the butt.

[Magicinstalls]

That's not a bypass. You just moved him from one location to another. Which works and that's fine, what I don't understand is why can't you just connect the two terminals together and do the same thing? A mystery…

[lasvegasmikey]

This solved my problem. Saved me hundreds of bucks. Heaven has a spot saved for folk like you. :)

[JamesHill-we]

I had the same problem with the sun but I used a piece of plastic pipe a few inches long as a sun shield. Problem solved.

[Volusiaev]

The sun is my exact problem in both Spring and Fall.
Thank for the video!!!

[burnsy]

If one is the sending unit and the other the receiver, maybe switch them from the other side of the door. That way the sending unit will not be prone to the sun.

[brewz]

I will admit I thought it was a little ridiculous how you did it at first, then I rigged up mine the same way and realized you are a genius!! Thank you!

[gp]

This is not bypassing or disabling sensors. This is removing the sensors from where they can actually help and putting them somewhere where they are useless. But, they are still in the operating circuit.

[TurkinaFaso]

is there a way to totally bypass them though? Because yours are still actively working. i need to find a way so that the garage door can operate without the sensors being connected to the system.

[starneseric]

Thank you so much for the explanation. So easy to follow. No more sun issues or knocking them out of whack and having to get them lined back up.

[etergen]

Took me 10 min to do this and we’ve been doing manual override from the wall 3yrs now and walking out front door. I love you, thank you I liked and subscribed.

[maxwellmark]

I simply swapped the receiving sensor (green light) with transmitting sensor (amber). The sun light was effectively “blinding” the receiving sensor, it has no effect on the transmitting sensor. Worked great and safety function is still functioning.

[BradThePitts]

My sensors would trip from the smallest spider web and/or a small leaf caught in a spider web. I got sick and tired of having to get out of the vehicle to clear the sensors, especially when it's raining, ridiculously hot, or when I'm wearing my "Sunday best."

My garage door will automatically go back up when it bumps into something such as the open lifgate of my truck, so I don't understand the point of the sensors. Redundancy maybe?

[ciphernemo]

Having similar issues with sensor, but mostly just from vibrations along the rail mount. Instead I'll be buying a second set of sensors, mounting them on the wall to face each other, and add a switch to toggle between the old sensors and the new ones facing each other. That way if we have friends over with lots of kids, I can switch it to the existing sensors, and then when it's just the wife and me I can switch to the new sensors. My install will be a little easier since we have a shaft drive garage opener with cables to open/close the door, so the opener is mounted on the wall to the side.

[edwardlofdahl]

Thank you! Perfect fix from someone who speaks perfect English.

[waynejohnson]

Bruce, we did everything you did on our excellent Chamberlain belt drive, including coloring the inside of the toilet roll with black magic marker! We hired a professional installer, who tuned and adjusted the unit, tried different sensors ($70 extra), I tried switching them to opposite sides, then tried moving them back into the shade, factory techs were marvelous and even sent "shade blockers...worthless" and a new circuit board, which I easily installed, all to no avail. Then I found your excellent and easy to follow video and that solved the mystery. Apparently, the factory can't tell us this solution because of liability issues (thanks, lawyers!). I really liked the wiring diagram too. Thanks for your efforts!

[mykwilwin]

I'm trying to figure out something with my garage too same unit as you, my left sensor has a red light on and the right light is off, I've been adjusting, making sure the wires and little connectors are in and making good contact but still nothing idk maybe the right sensor is burned out, so this remedy won't work probably for me, I will rotate the sensers to determine if one is in fact burned out.