garage door photo eye: Sun in your “Eyes”. Garage door sensors. - 10/20/15 10:03 AM
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 … (8 comments)

 



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