garage door electric eye

[Identaltech]

how do you guys have your electric eye hooked up in your garages?
Seems like I'm always adjusting mine in the main part of the garage.
kids hit them with thier bikes or just hit them as you walk by.
View media item 514on the shop side I have removed the housing and mounted the emiter and detector together.
View media item 513kids are unable to use shop door so I don't feel safty is compromised.
but on the daily driver side they use that door all the time so I feel that I need them.
just looking for new ideals.

 

[Poltax]

I have mine hooked up above the garage door. Now I know some of you will say what about the kids. Mine are out of the house. One of the main reasons I put it above the garage door is due to how the sun shines on the sensors. Our house and garage face south. I was having problems with the door not closing properly. I finally figured out it was the sun shinning directly on the lenses and preventing the door from working properly. Since I moved them I have not had a problem.

 

[tdkkart]

Had mine mounted on the ceiling of the garage for 14 years before the home inspector busted me. Never had a problem, and our daughter was not stupid damaged so she knew better than to be playing under the garage door.....

 

[mmg440]

I personally don't have kids and not to worried since I am the only one who used the garage so I just taped my lenses together and they sit atop the opener. You already said you did that for your shop side.

I never liked those brackets that mount to the track. I would think you could make your one solid mount just past the tracks on each side mounted directly to the wall. You could even build a small open box around the sensors to help protect them as well. If you mound them to a solid mount they should stay adjusted to were you put them

 

[tim096]

I did the same as mmg440 taped mine together. I dont have kids

 

[Junkman]

I believe that there is a screw hole that you can drill through to the door track and insert a sheet metal screw to keep them in place. Everyone seems to want to disconnect safety devices, until the day that they learn that the homeowners insurance will not pay a claim because the safety device has been disabled by the homeowner. I don't have kids, but I know that the dogs can get seriously harmed by a garage door if it were not for the safety device. Minor inconvenience as compared to a major injury.

 

[Identaltech]

junkman I understand about the dogs.
if I was on one side of the garage they on the other and the garage door was closing.
It could be 6" from all the way down and sure enough they stick thier heads out.
here is mine.
View media item 515

 

[nadogail]

At a rental, the setting sun caused problems with the electric eye. I could not disable the eye, too much liability. I cut a piece of ABS drain pipe and fit it over the receiving eye to shade it.

I aimed it at the other (sending) eye. Now the receiving eye only sees the light shining directly through the tube. No more problems from the setting sun.

A one foot of piece of 1 1/2 " ABS, some tape and fifteen minutes work with a hack saw. This fix has been in place and working for seven years.

 

[sammerdog]

At a rental, the setting sun caused problems with the electric eye. I could not disable the eye, too much liability. I cut a piece of ABS drain pipe and fit it over the receiving eye to shade it.

I aimed it at the other (sending) eye. Now the receiving eye only sees the light shining directly through the tube. No more problems from the setting sun.

A one foot of piece of 1 1/2 " ABS, some tape and fifteen minutes work with a hack saw. This fix has been in place and working for seven years.

nadogail -

Great idea! I have the same problem this time of year in the morning with the sun. Thank you for the tip!

 

[sammerdog]

junkman I understand about the dogs.
if I was on one side of the garage they on the other and the garage door was closing.
It could be 6" from all the way down and sure enough they stick thier heads out.
here is mine.
View media item 515

Good lookin' dogs!

 

[Gary S]

What eye? My garage door openers were made in the 1970s.

 

[fireman]

What eye? My garage door openers were made in the 1970s.

Back in the old days when YOU were accountable for YOUR stupidity. Now, the government has to create laws to protect the dumb ones and you are no longer responsible for your own actions. I say that interferes with Gods plan to weed the garden.

 

[slacktide]

I don't have kids... my safety-eyes are taped together. But, I DID close the garage door on the tailpiece of my motorcycle once. Safety eyes wouldn't have helped anyway... the tail sticks out further than the rear wheel and is higher than the eyes are usually mounted.

 

[mmg440]

The garage door with the safety eyes still have the auto reversing feature like the door openers of the past have. Yes, it would hurt a kid or a dog and yes they can cause damage. I even heard rumors that it can cause major injury. I would never attempt to disable that feature, in fact I generally set it as soft as it can for the door. With kids and dogs running around when unaware operators use the door the safety eyes would be a great asset and worth any trouble it would take to mount them to a solid frame and slightly back so they would no longer get hit by the bikes and stuff.

 

[Junkman]

Back in the old days when YOU were accountable for YOUR stupidity. Now, the government has to create laws to protect the dumb ones and you are no longer responsible for your own actions. I say that interferes with Gods plan to weed the garden.

Are the people that bid on this auction part of the plan? The way that GJ members are lambasting the seller, I don't think so.........

 

[jake00]

Back in the old days when YOU were accountable for YOUR stupidity. Now, the government has to create laws to protect the dumb ones and you are no longer responsible for your own actions. I say that interferes with Gods plan to weed the garden.

that and plastic playground equiptment

 

[fireman]

Are the people that bid on this auction part of the plan? The way that GJ members are lambasting the seller, I don't think so.........

Thanks for the link to that thread. Very interesting responses. I agree 100% with your posts on it. Yes, those bidders are part of the master plan. They'll spend all their money on junk because they can't read and then starve to death.

 

[IH8Z28S]

My opener is so old it doesn't have the eye's, just the "crush" safety option, I dread the day I have to replace it

 

[nissan_crawler]

I don't have kids, but I know that the dogs can get seriously harmed by a garage door if it were not for the safety device. Minor inconvenience as compared to a major injury.

Not if it's adjusted right. Our old doors on the farm got cats several times a year, never hurt one of them.

When we got new openers, we put the sensors where they should be. After a few years of 1-3 sets of sensors per year, per door, they went up in the rafters.

 

[sammerdog]

In this sue-happy world we live in, it has to be pointed out that some of you guys are dancing with the devil.

If you over-ride the safety features of your opener (taping the eyes together, moving the eyes above the door, etc..) and someone gets hurt, your homeowner's insurance company is within their legal rights to deny a claim. You get sued for $500,000 and your insurance co won't pay, guess what - you just lost your house and garage to little Bobby's family.

Everything's okay until somebody gets hurt....

 

[j20m715]

In this sue-happy world we live in, it has to be pointed out that some of you guys are dancing with the devil.

If you over-ride the safety features of your opener (taping the eyes together, moving the eyes above the door, etc..) and someone gets hurt, your homeowner's insurance company is within their legal rights to deny a claim. You get sued for $500,000 and your insurance co won't pay, guess what - you just lost your house and garage to little Bobby's family.

Everything's okay until somebody gets hurt....

I wont let anyone that dumb in my house much less my work area.