How To Adjust Garage Door Travel Limits

Open the garage door and watch it closely as it opens.

How to adjust garage door travel limits.

How to adjust the travel limits of your garage door if it won t close all the way. When the garage door opens about halfway or 5 feet from the ground and stops the up limit switch needs to be adjusted. After any adjustments are made the safety reversal system must be tested. Adjust the close force control to change the amount of force your garage door opener uses to close the door.

How to program the travel limits for liftmaster chamberlain craftsman garage door opener with arrow type program buttons with a black button. The black button controls the op open movement and the purple or yellow button controls the down close movement. You can do almost anything all you have to do is try. Travel limits control how far the garage door will open and close during operation force limits regulate the amount of force used during opening and closing of the garage door.

Locate the open force and close force controls to the right of the travel limit and set buttons on the power head unit control panel. Depending on the type of technology and when the mechanism was made there are many ways to make adjustments to a chamberlain garage door opener. This video demonstrates how to program the travel on a chamberlain garage door opener with a yellow learn button. Start with the garage door.

Setting the up open limit 1.