Genie Garage Door Down Force Adjustment

Genie garage door openers are known for their dependability but if your system doesn t seem to be working quite right you can adjust the open and close limit and force settings to have it working again in just minutes.

Genie garage door down force adjustment.

A garage door opener with an improperly adjusted closing force can damage the door or worse injure a child or pet that accidentally walks under the door. The travel distance limit setting and the downward force limit setting. Once the down close force adjustment is set you will set the up open force limit. Travel limits force control programming video for models 7055 2055 3055 3035 kv amd 3053 tsv.

Step 2 1 01 setting the up limit. On the garage door motor there will be two knobs or dials to adjust the opener and the reverse sensor. Test and adjust the door opener s reverse feature. Test by opening and closing the door.

Professional line dealer installed diy retail. Travel limits force control. When you have made your adjustment test the door by lowering and raising it. There are two types of adjustable down limit on liftmaster garage openers.

Take extra care with adjusting the up or down. To change the down force and the up force of your opener find the force adjustment knob and turn it to adjust the up force or down force. Adjusting these dials alters how far the garage door travels while closing and how much force in kilograms the motor uses. Reverse by itself without grasping the bottom of the garage door then increase the down close force by turning the adjustment screw clockwise.

With a screwdriver adjust these screws. Setting the down limit. Make small adjustments at a time to the force limits retesting after each adjustment. The closing force of the door works as a.

This video details how to adjust the opener force and travel of the door.