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Test Electric Eye for Electrical Garage Door Installation

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Summary: Learn how to install electrical garage doors with demos such as testing the electric eye in this free online video lesson.

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By Drew A. Finn III
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Drew Finn is an expert in mechanical systems. He has a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a licensed engineer and licensed home...read more

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"We are going to show you how to install garage door opener today this is being filmed by Black Dog Video you could visit us at blackdogvideo.biz. Now we are going to check the safety futures for as the electric eyes. They are situated within of 6 inches of the floor so if we have pets going in and out or small children or just something laying in the way that the door won't come down on it. So if the beam is broken it would reverse. So we got to check that. So as the door is coming down we break the beam the door stops and went up. So that is operating correctly if you got a situation where the door would go do will only go down if you continuesly hold the button. Tells me these are out of the line there and what you want to do is unscrew the wing nut that we put on before and adjust them. First stand back and look at both of them and see if there outline. One may of gotten it by someone and but anyways if there is symptoms is you got to hold the door down the button down to close it then there are out of alinement's and you just got to re a line the sensors."

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