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Sun in your “Eyes”. Garage door sensors.
Very deserving. Donald Hester is one of the most graphic and thorough home inspectors I know and always shares such detailed information with myriad photos, graphs, charts, etc. He's a member of my MANUFACTURED HOME SALES AND LENDING INDUSTRY and I'm happy to share his contributions anytime.
 
Sun in your “Eyes”. Garage door sensors.
East Wenatchee Home Inspections






Garage door photo eyes or sensors (Safe-T-Beam) are an important safety device and they need to work properly. The requirement for these safety devices was to reduce the number of deaths to children who become entrapped under garage doors with automatic openers. So in 1993 the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) required that all garage doors to be equipped with an external entrapment protection device. These devices are typically an "electric eye/photo eye" which sees an object obstructing the door without actual contact with the object but it could be a door edge sensor.



Door edge sensor


So now you have this “Photo Eye”  and then something goes wrong and the door will not go down. These safety reversing sensors (photo eyes) must be properly aligned and connected before the garage door opener will move in the down direction. ... more

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