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Your cart is empty.The Replacement Safety Sensors project an invisible light beam across the inside of the garage door to prevent accidents and are required for safe use of all Chamberlain Garage Door Openers. Whenever there is an obstruction, the garage door will automatically reverse before causing any damage. Chamberlain compatible, these sensors replace defective or damaged sensors for every Chamberlain Garage Door Opener manufactured after 1997.
Doug Clark
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2024
I’ve owned my home for 12 years. For the first 6 or so, the garage door opener worked just fine. Then, it started not closing when the sun was really bright, then when the sun was out at all, and finally, it stopped working altogether.I tried all the things — readjusting the sensors, cleaning the lenses, even toilet paper rolls on the sensors to block glare. Nothing worked.What followed was several years of having to have someone inside the house hold down the garage door button it would over-ride the sensors. We essentially didn’t have a garage door opener.Finally, after procrastinating for probably 3 years, I bought this set of replacement sensors. I had a little bit of experience with wiring as I’d worked my basement when I finished it a couple years back, so I had a good set of electrical pliers, and was comfortable splicing wires.It took about 20 minutes to clip off the two old sensors (they were hard wired) and splice the new sensors using the provided connectors. I probably left too much wire, but who cares. No one is going to see it.Once everything was connected I clicked the button on one of my remotes, and for the first time in years, the garage door closed in the light of day!I cannot overstate how liberating it is to actually have a garage door opener that opens! And with how easy the repair was, I should have done this years ago!
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on May 10, 2024
Very good product.
Edwin R Rodriguez
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2024
Moved into a new home and the previous owner told me the garage door would stick when it was cold and I had to hold down the garage close button.. once I moved in I quickly realized the sensors were no good. He had the old style sensors, so I got these and had them spliced in and mounted in about 10 minutes. Unfortunately I had to modify the brackets a bit to mount (bc of how the old ones were mounted). A few quick bends with a pair of pliers and these were up and running. First open and close were successful and a second test with a box in the way triggered the safety reverse, as they’re supposed to. Excellent product. I connected these to a chamberlain garage door opener.
Andrew mac Fhionnlaigh
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2024
The sensors fit perfectly and were fully compatible with my existing system. Status indicator lights are much brighter than the previous version. Included brackets worked like a charm, so yeah overall I definitely recommend this kit.
MN Outdoorsman
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2023
I had new garage doors installed about 3-4 years ago and they functioned perfectly (including the safety sensors) from day one. Unfortunately, we recently starting having problems with the garage doors closing in the later afternoon (North facing driveway). It was pretty clear that the sun was shining directly into the safety sensors which caused the lift motor to reverse. This was a major problem as I have a few kids who are great on their iPhones but not so great when it comes to more "complicated" home problems (i.e. running a dishwasher, washing machine, lawn mower, and garage doors). It is really frustrating to be at work and have a kid call to say they can't get the garage doors to close. It is even more frustrating to try to explain how to solve the problem to the helpless teenagers.....Enough said. Time to solve the problem.I did lots of internet research and found all kinds of hokey solutions (i.e. toilet paper roll, black plastic sun shades, etc...) but none of those seemed reliable enough to protect me from the dreaded call from the teenagers so I looked into the problem further and it appears that long-term exposure to sunlight can cause the older generation of photoelectric safety sensors to deteriorate. I decided to replace the old sensors with these hoping it would solve the problem. Good news! They did!I do have a couple of tips that might help with the install if you choose to replace your old sensors with these. First, I used a black permanent marker to mark the top location of the brackets for the old sensors. I then removed the old brackets and installed the new brackets with the new sensors as a complete assembly with the top of the new bracket at the marked line. That is much easier than installing the new bracket and then installing the new sensor (you do need to use the new bracket as the sensors are shaped differently).Next, I pre-wound some of the excess wire around a pen to create a little buffer in case I needed to move the new sensor up or down. It is only possible to do this easily if you do it before the wires from the sensor are connected to the wires from the garage door motor. I now had a buffer that would allow vertical movement if my marks were off.Finally, I cut the old sensor out one wire at a time so that I did not have to unplug the garage door motor itself. If you cut one wire at a time, you cannot create a short which might damage the garage door motor and unplugging the motor itself is an unnecessary extra step. The connectors that are included with the new sensors were perfect and easily secured with a simple pliers so all good!Once the install and electrical connections were complete, it was easy to verify the sensors were properly aligned. One sensor has an amber light and the other has a green light. It does not appear to matter how you install them. Both lights are constantly on when things are properly aligned and they flash if there is a problem so easy to verify the install. Mine turned out to be correct so I went on to test the up/down performance at the same time of day when we usually have trouble. Everything worked perfectly and I no longer have problems with the sunlight causing the garage doors to reverse!These turned out to be a simple solution to a frustrating problem. I highly recommend the kit if you are having similar problems with your garage doors auto reversing due to sunlight!
Jorge
Reviewed in Mexico on March 7, 2022
Los sensores anteriores ya no funcionaban correctamente, decidí cambiarlos por estos, tengo motor chamberlain y funcionaron excelente, muy fácil la instalación sin necesidad de contratar técnico.
Doug Robinson
Reviewed in Canada on September 8, 2021
Needed to replace one of the sensors on a friend's garage door. These were exactly the same as the original, so installation took about 2 minutes. Only one of the original sensors was malfunctioning, so I didn't change the other. Despite one being old, and one new they worked perfectly.
Maurice
Reviewed in Canada on June 17, 2021
Our garage door opener was acting up, yet everything checked out okay. No matter what I adjusted, including the photo-sensors, sometimes it would not close. After exhaustive testing, the only thing it could be was the photo-sensors, although their little yellow and green lights appeared to function. With nothing else it cold be, I bought these replacements. They arrived quickly and installed exactly as the old ones. The garage door now works properly every time! I can only conclude that the old sensors were on the verge of not working.Okay, 3 or 4-stars should be average, which these are. But, because of the low price, I'm bumping them up to five.Hot tip: if your garage door sensors are going bad, but not burnt out, you can't just remove them and go without. The garage door opener insists on these being connected or it won't work. Until the replacements arrived, I taped the two old ones touching and facing each other on a strip of wood, then placing them atop the opener, I wired them in. So, the door worked fine. For safety sake, I backed off on the sensor that controls the down force to the point where even a soft item would reverse the garage door on impact.
Sergio Saenz
Reviewed in Mexico on October 10, 2021
Facil instalacion.
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