biscuit141
Well-known member
Hi all,
We moved into a new to us house in November, it has a 3 car garage with 3 separate garage doors and openers. Shortly after we moved in the middle door started working intermittently then finally just clicking and humming in a double pulse but not moving. After googling I replaced the capacitor and hat seemed to solve the problem. That takes us to early March when the opener started to smoke a little when operating and more googling led me to believe the capacitor may have failed again. During this time I found an old receipt from the last homeowner that said a garage door company replaced a capacitor in 2018, I am assuming in the same door giving me issues. Fast forward to a week ago and the garage door for the bay my wife parks in started doing the double click and hum with no movement after my kids were playing with the opener for a couple presses. I am assuming a blown capacitor as well. Now these are Genie Pro Max chain drive openers, I spoke to a garage door company and he said they were probably from the late 90’s or early 2000’s. So my question is, do I keep replacing the capacitor and hope this stops happening or do I bite the bullet and replace the openers now? And if I replace, what opener do I go with? The current doors are wood, probably heavier but easy enough to lift by hand with the springs adjusted. I hope to get some new insulated doors in the next couple years.
Funny thing is the 3 bay has a much older Genie Pro screw drive which is loud as hell and doesn’t even have wireless control and it’s still trucking away, that is where we keep all the kids stuff.
We moved into a new to us house in November, it has a 3 car garage with 3 separate garage doors and openers. Shortly after we moved in the middle door started working intermittently then finally just clicking and humming in a double pulse but not moving. After googling I replaced the capacitor and hat seemed to solve the problem. That takes us to early March when the opener started to smoke a little when operating and more googling led me to believe the capacitor may have failed again. During this time I found an old receipt from the last homeowner that said a garage door company replaced a capacitor in 2018, I am assuming in the same door giving me issues. Fast forward to a week ago and the garage door for the bay my wife parks in started doing the double click and hum with no movement after my kids were playing with the opener for a couple presses. I am assuming a blown capacitor as well. Now these are Genie Pro Max chain drive openers, I spoke to a garage door company and he said they were probably from the late 90’s or early 2000’s. So my question is, do I keep replacing the capacitor and hope this stops happening or do I bite the bullet and replace the openers now? And if I replace, what opener do I go with? The current doors are wood, probably heavier but easy enough to lift by hand with the springs adjusted. I hope to get some new insulated doors in the next couple years.
Funny thing is the 3 bay has a much older Genie Pro screw drive which is loud as hell and doesn’t even have wireless control and it’s still trucking away, that is where we keep all the kids stuff.