Planning

Identify the type and height of your garage door. Survey your garage area to see if any of the conditions below apply to your installation. Additional materials may be required. You may find it helpful to refer back to this page and the accompanying illustrations as you proceed with the installation of your opener.

Depending on your requirements, there are several installation steps which may call for materials or hardware not included in the carton.

Do you have an access door in addition to the garage door? If not, Model 7702CB Emergency Key Release is required. See Accessories page.

Look at the garage door where it meets the floor. Any gap between the floor and the bottom of the door must not exceed 1/4" (6 mm). Otherwise, the safety reversal system may not work properly. See Adjustment Step 3. Floor or door should be repaired.

Installation Step 1 – Look at the wall or ceiling above the garage door. The header bracket must be securely fastened to structural supports.

Installation Step 5 – Do you have a finished ceiling in your garage? If so, a support bracket and additional fastening hardware may be required.

Installation Step 10 – Depending upon garage construction, extension brackets or wood blocks may be needed to install sensors.

Installation Step 10 – Alternate floor mounting of the safety reversing sensor will require hardware not provided.

SECTIONAL DOOR INSTALLATIONS

Do you have a steel, aluminum, fiberglass or glass panel door? If so, horizontal and vertical reinforcement is required (Installation Step 11).

The opener should be installed above the center of the door. If there is a torsion spring or center bearing plate in the way of the header bracket, it may be installed within 4 feet (1.22 m) to the left or right of the door center. See Installation Steps 1 and 11.

SECTIONAL DOOR INSTALLATION

Horizontal and vertical reinforcement is needed for lightweight garage doors (fiberglass, steel, aluminum, door with glass panels, etc.).

See page 24 for details.

Header Wall

 

 

FINISHED CEILING

 

Slack in chain

Support bracket &

 

fastening hardware

 

tension is

 

is required.

 

normal when

See page 16.

 

garage door

 

 

is closed.

 

 

 

 

 

Extension

 

Torsion

OR

Spring

Motor Unit

 

 

 

Spring

 

 

 

Vertical

Centerline of

Garage Door

Gap between floor and

bottom of door must not

Safetyexceed 1/4" (6 mm). Reversing

Sensor

Wall-Mounted

 

 

 

 

 

Door Control

Access

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Door

 

 

 

 

 

 

CLOSED POSITION

 

 

Header

 

 

 

 

 

Bracket Trolley

 

 

 

 

Stop Bolt

Trolley

 

Safety

 

 

 

 

 

Reversing

 

 

 

 

 

Sensor

 

 

 

 

Chain

 

 

Garage

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emergency

 

 

Door

Straight

 

 

Spring

Release

 

 

Door

 

 

 

Rope &

 

 

 

Arm

 

 

 

 

 

Handle

 

Header

 

 

 

 

 

Curved

 

 

Wall

 

 

 

Door

Door Arm

 

 

Garage

 

 

 

 

 

 

Door

Bracket

 

 

 

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