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For anyone else who ends up here, I ended up flipping my unit to face the wall instead of facing out, effectively reversing the rotation. I had enough distance from the wall in my application to make this work and still be able to access controls for setting up the door. A bit goofy looking...

For anyone else who ends up here, I ended up flipping my unit to face the wall instead of facing out, effectively reversing the rotation. I had enough distance from the wall in my application to make this work and still be able to access controls for setting up the door. A bit goofy looking...

What did you end up going with? I know its many many years later...but I've got this exact dilemma right now and am weighing the same options. Curious what has worked for others in the past. Thanks

13 years later and I now have this exact same problem... Has anyone ran into any issues with running the jackshaft opener "upside down"? That is seeming like the best option to handle this. Otherwise I'm thinking of making a gear setup to reverse the direction of rotation...

They are designed to only work with "standard" wound drums and not "reversed" (looking from left end of shaft from inside, need to spin CCW to lift door), so the unit itself is not defective. I did find in the fine print eventually "not compatible with reverse wound drums" or something to that...

I know it's been a few years, but did you ever resolve this without flipping direction the cables are wound on the drums? I'm having the same problem with a brand new Chamberlain side mount opener, where up and down are reversed relative to the rotation my cables/drums/springs are wound (mine...