Garage Door Opener Button Only Closes Door If You Hold

Only the wall button will close it.

Garage door opener button only closes door if you hold. T his is a pretty uncommon problem but one that can happen after you ve first installed your garage door opener. You might have absentmindedly unplugged the operator as you were exiting the garage through your internal door to the house. They can easily become mis aligned due to bumping twisting and loose mounting. Show activity on this post.

But the opener balks at closing the door the tension setting probably needs to be increased. It s important to get this switch at just the right distance from the motor so that the door is able to close all the way but the motor also knows to stop running. Sometimes a garage door won t open or close for one reason only the operator has no power connection. Try making small adjustments.

When i push my inside of garage button for the door to close the door attempts to go down motor light flashes and door goes back up again. Garage door will not close without holding down the wall button. You are overriding the infrared beam sensor when you hold down the wall button continuously while the garage door is closing. Neither wireless remotes work.

There is a safety sensor mounted near the floor on either side of the door these sensors have electronic eyes that have to see each other or the door control stops the garage door from closing. If an operational problem exists and the garage door opener will not close the opener can be forced to close. Garage door only closes if you hold the button down even with the safety sensors disconnected. Door starts down then stops before it is closed.

Check for interference from adjacent photo eye sensors of any brand. So if you have to do this to close the door it means the sensor is malfunctioning. If the remotes will still open the door but it will only close if you hold the button down on the wall control continuously then you likely have an issue with the safety sensors. One of the sensor lights will usually be blinking when there is a malfunction.

Any transmitter like a handheld clicker or outdoor keypad will also not work to close the door if there is a problem with the sensor. Or door will only open. Look at the led s on the door sensors. Press and hold the wall console button until the garage door is completey closed.

In the funniest of scenarios the problem will simply be due to an unplugged power cord. Garage door only closes if you hold the button down even with the safety sensors disconnected. If the garage door will close when you hold the wall control button in and the remotes only make the door go down a few inches and return the problem is in the door safety sensor circuit.