My Genie screw-drive opener, 8 years old, has in the last couple months started going up on it's own if the power goes out - power is restored and up it goes. Any ideas on how to put the genie back into the bottle - why this is happening and how to stop it short of replacing the unit? The googles were no help and neither is Genie's web site.
Have you ever come home and its up? If it only happens when you are home, change your remote's batteries. My daughter's toys will talk and do their own things by themselves, but with new batteries it stops.
UPS on the genie circut?
Seriously, I don't know. I have a motion sensitice porch light.. whenever power goes out and comes on.. it fails in the "on" position
BoostedBrandon wrote: Have you ever come home and its up? If it only happens when you are home, change your remote's batteries. My daughter's toys will talk and do their own things by themselves, but with new batteries it stops.
Yeah, we rolled in about 11:00 last night to an open garage door, which finally prompted me to make this post.
wow.. how often are you losing power?
mad_machine wrote: wow.. how often are you losing power?
About 5 times in the last month - which is more than I've lost power in the 8 years before then that I've been in this house.
A call to Genie might enable you to change a setting on the unit so it doesn't fail open, if that's what is really going on. Or check the batteries on the key pad and the car openers.
good point Ross. That might be a safety issue. It could be designed to open the moment it gets power in case somebody is trapped.
Somebody in the area might have the same code. Try changing the code.
Same thing happened to my garage door opener. It's probably the photo sensor at the base of the garage door. Check the alignment of the sensor and the wiring to the opener. If both are ok, the fault is either the sensor/emitter or the opener itself.
my friend brooks rents a garage at his apartment complex to keep his 240 in. he has $1000+ in wheels and tires on it, $1500 in suspension, hydro handbrake setup, etc etc
for a month or two there his garage door would be open ALL THE TIME
his opener would close it then, like 45 seconds later, open it back up. he left it in his car to make sure he wasn't doing it on accident when it was in his pocket and it still did it. lol
I'm still not sure how he figured it out but it no longer does this.
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