Garage Door Opener Parts

You need to buy a Liftmaster if you are going to buy a safety sensor for your garage door.  You can install it yourself in 10-15 minutes.

It is highly recommend that your purchase a  liftmaster safety sensor for your garage door opener. Liftmaster safety senors are some of the best sensors you can buy.  I have used them and have heard nothing but great reviews about them. They are compatible with all fail safe units.  You might want to think twice about getting a Genie Universal product at Lowes or Home Depot.  They do not match everything and you may run into problems..

You can pay a garage door repair service to come and install it for $80 or you can do it yourself.  It will take you 10-15 minutes max.  You will have to use the supplied wire splicers to replace your old sensors but it’s not difficult. Align the sensors using the alignment indicator lights.   Then throw away the old sensors.
Really simple to install.  Purchasing this lit and spending about 15 minutes in the garage is well worth the savings

A series of automatic garage door openers in Sarpy County malfunctioned over the past few days and some residents are suspecting that  Offutt Air Force Base is responsible.

“It didn’t work,” said Terry Labedz. “Nothing happened. Nada.”

Her garage door opener is working now, but it was out for most of the week.

Many people in Sarpy County reported their doors weren’t opening. Labedz charged her battery and called the manufacturer and a local repair service.

“This has been an ongoing problem for several years,” said Lee Pounds of Norm’s Door Service. “We may go through six months where nothing occurs and then we go through a time when everybody is affected.”

Pounds said the problem is that something or someone occasionally broadcasts a signal that overpowers the openers. He suspects the signal comes from Offutt Air Force Base.

“Because of the strength of the signal Offutt is beaming out, it’s going to negate your garage door systems, rendering them ineffective,” Pounds said.

Offutt didn’t comment on the situation, but Labedz thinks Pounds might be right. When she called the base and asked, she said the person who answered suggested several repairmen who would understand her problem. She said the people on the base were polite, but didn’t explain the source of the problem.

“I think the problem is Offutt,” she said.

Labedz has lived in Bellevue for decades and knows that the interference that blocked her opener may come back. Still, she said she’s pleased to have the base as a neighbor.

“I love hearing those planes go over,” she said. “I love our military. They have to do what they have to do.”

Offutt told KETV NewsWatch 7 that it was investigating whether the base was the source of the signal and that the wing commander is always concerned if base activities affect the community.

Several other experts said that the federal government controls all radio frequencies and can do whatever it wants with them.

This has nothing to do with the Garage Door Mystery in Virgina.

MIDLOTHIAN, VA: A mystery is unfolding in one Midlothian, Virginia neighborhood.

No matter what residents do, their clickers aren’t opening up their garages.

“We tried using it different ways getting it closer to the garage just different angles and positions and we tried changing batteries,” explained resident Taylor Anderson.

It isn’t just happening to the Anderson family, but to more than two dozen other residents near Welby Drive in the Tarrington neighborhood.

Residents say their clickers stopped working around Christmas Eve.

One family even got locked out of their home for a couple hours because of it.

Right now most of the garage doors will only open by the wall button, and some will open with clicker inside the garage, but once you step outside it’s dead again.

Some residents believe the disconnection could be due to the military taking over garage frequencies in 2004, but the Aamelia Overhead Doors Company that installed most of the garages door openers in the neighborhood says it changed its frequency long ago.

They plan to come out to figure out the issue, but a spokesperson believes someone in the neighborhood may have installed something that’s now messing up everyone’s frequency.

You can also read about a strange case involving garages by reading the Garage Doors Affected by Military Base post.