The garage door safety sensors are designed to ensure maximum safety for your garage door opener operation. The Genie garage door safety sensor kit (Safe-T-Beams) uses an invisible infrared beam across the opening of the door, the system detects any object passing through the infrared beam of light and automatically reverses the closing garage door. The Genie Safe-T-Beam system is required by US Law as of 1993.
However, the Genie Safe-T-Beam kit is self-diagnostic. If there is an issue or obstruction there is a series of garage door opener light flashes or small lights on the safety sensors to let you know what the issue could be (see chart below). If you are experiencing a garage door that will not close and a blinking garage door opener light you may have an obstruction of the Safe-T-Beam infrared light. If there is no physical obstruction you may have light interference. If the sun or another bright source of light shines into the garage door safety sensor lens it can cause a false positive and reverse the garage door. This can be a nuisance but good news, there is an easy fix available.
The Genie Version 2, Safe-T-Beam system (Model GSTB-R) has a lens cover that protects from alternative light interference, as seen in the picture below. This updated version should eliminate any false positive safety sensor signals. This is a very easy upgrade to your existing Genie garage door opener that should only take a few minutes to install. You can reuse your existing wiring and mounting locations. You simply remove the wires from the current Safe-T-Beam sensors and unscrew them from the wall. Then reconnect the wires and remount to the wall. The garage door safety sensor beams should still be lined up. If not loosen the mounting to the wall slightly and realign them by hand until both the red and green lights are on both sensors (one each on the left and right sensors themselves).
If an operating problem continues and you cannot close your door you can disconnect your Safe-T-Beams from the operator and hold down the wall control button until the door closes (remote and wireless keypad will not work without Safe-T-Beams).
You have just successfully upgraded your Genie Safe-T-Beam system!
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I have a 7155, only a year old, hardly ever gets used. No lights on the sensors. Red LED on the power head. You can close it by holding the wired button down, but will open with just the push of the button. Wiring is good. What should the voltage be on these? Or should I be looking at something else?
I have the Genie Pro Max. My red sensor light went out, no blockage, but was wired in. I purchased the Safe T Beam, replaced both sides, aligned the sensors to the previous installed position, also keeping it loose enough to move it around for a beam match. The green light is on, but the red light still will not light up. There is no blockage. I manually hold down the button to close the garage door. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you.
Garage door closes Instead of opening when sensor is activated. How do I reverse
I purchased two 6070 openers on 8/18/20 from Overheard Door Parts .com and installed them 8/26/20. I have ver 2.0 of the safe-t-beam on my 6070 openers. After installing the openers, few days passed and one of the openers Safe-T-Beams red light is flashing 3 times and pause and continue again. The other one is solid green. There is nothing blocking it or on the lens. Checked the wiring and nothing looks broken. The height and is good. I need suggestions as to how to fix this problem.
I have a silentmaster 1000. When the garage door is open and walk thru, the light on the opener does not turn on. It never did from day one. Any suggestions? It was installed by a professional from HomeDepot services
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