Safety sensors and the sun

[overdriv]

I have a garage door with a Liftmaster opener facing east. On a sunny morning the door will open just fine, but won't close unless you over ride with the big white button inside the garage. After about 12:00 noon, the door will close just fine without using the over ride.

I'm pretty convinced the sun is interfering with the safety beam sensors. Is there any fix for this problem? Is there a way to permanently over ride the sensors?

 

[1971gsfan]

try moving your sensors out/farther apart. putting further apart should put them in the shadows of the door frame.

Tim

 

[Kevin54]

If the safety sensors aren't a real big issue, you can move them up to a higher position. Some will put a toilet paper tube over the eye. Or you can try switching the eyes from side to side. Lastly, is there a certain time you use the door everyday as in coming home from work? If so, try putting a shield in front of the eyes.

 

[Matt M PA]

I had a door doing that. I cut a couple small pieces of PVC pic that the eyes "look through". I just electrical taped them in place. Fixed.

 

[Steevo]

I had one like that. Twice a year, for a week or so it would be "blinded" by the sun, just when my wife had to leave for work.
I ended up moving the sensor back from the door opening and adding a 6" black plastic tube to it.

 

[pmiranda]

Try swapping the sender and receiver eyes. The sender doesn't care about getting sun but the receiver will.

 

[Milton Shaw]

I had an alarm system at a shop that would go off on sunny Sunday afternoons from reflections on car windshields on the highway beside the store. After three alarms that Sunday we bypassed the receivers until the alarm company could swap ends on them.

 

[rlitman]

Try swapping the sender and receiver eyes. The sender doesn't care about getting sun but the receiver will.

This. It's right in the instructions in my Genie opener.

 

[overdriv]

I have swapped sides with the sensors. The manual says to put the sensor that sends on the sunny side of the door, started out that way and tryed swapping and now back to the way it is suppose to be.

It's to bad there isn't a way to just do without them and some how fake the opener into thinking all's well.

 

[HMCFab9]

just put the sensors somewhere else (above the opener)
A friend did that & never had a problem. (he didn't have any little kids around though)

 

[upndown]

If I see sensors mounted to the ceiling I keep right on driving!! Won't touch em! God forbid if something happened..Who do you think the first person the Lawyer would call would be!! Just swap them

 

[overdriv]

Swapping sides didn't help.

 

[LB-1911]

Swapping sides didn't help.

Have you considered the several suggestions of the installation on tubes on the sensors?