On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 01:57:38 -0500, Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca> wrote:
> David Scheidt wrote:
> > One of our garage door openers started mis-behaving yesterday. It
> > goes up and down fine, if the door isn't attached to drive mechanism.
> > With the door attached, it opens. When it tries to close the door, it
> > goes about a foot, stops, reverses, and flashes the light; the same
> > behavior as if something had tripped the safety photo-eyes. It's a
> > Craftsman chain driven opener.
> >
> > About all I know about these things is how to push the button, so I
> > have no idea where to start looking.
>
> Usually on the unit there are two force adjusters, one for up and one
> for down.
>
> One adjusts how hard the unit will try to go down before it
> safety-reverses, the other up.
>
> Try giving the down one a little increase so it tries a little harder
> before giving up.
>
The one for down was set at the minium setting. Increasing it to
about 1/8 max makes the door close. I suppose I should check that it
still reverses when it hits something. (Here, doggie, doggie!)
Thanks!
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David Scheidt
dmscheidt@gmail.com
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