Garage Door Starts To Close Then Opens Again
Holding the button down on the inside of the garage bypasses the obstruction safety device of the garage door opener.
Garage door starts to close then opens again. 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. When the logic board wears out it can cause your garage door to close then open and vice versa without explanation. My gargae door will start to close but then stops and opens again. This also tells us that the tracks are free from any obstructions and that the problem is in either the eye sensors or the garage door opener itself.
Turn the down limit switch screw clockwise one turn with a flat blade screwdriver if the garage door closes and then begins to open back up. Your garage door s logic board is the brain of your garage door opener. By wade shaddy updated december 19 2018 you push the button to close the garage door. Close the garage door with the opener and watch it closely as it closes.
The garage door will automatically go in reverse whenever it hits an obstruction such as the driveway or ground. It will close if i hold the close button down until it reaches the floor. It goes partway down reverses direction and goes back up again. My garage door starts to close and travels about a foot and then reopens.
This is almost always the result of a dirty. 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. If the garage door does not close completely or begins to close and then opens back up again the down limit switch needs. 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.