Federal law ul 325 has required all garage doors manufactured include a safety reversing system such as garage door sensors.
Safety laws and garage door sensors.
We suggest that you check the safety on your garage door openers at least once a year.
Federal law ul 325 made it mandatory for manufacturers to include sensors that interrupt opening and closing your garage door.
The short answer is because it s the law.
The working of these sensors is quite simple.
This law is grandfathered in so you can still have pre 2012 openers that do not meet this code serviced.
It is a beneficial device if you have kids or pets in your house.
In 1993 the u s.
Other safety products are available and often chosen to supplement the mandated safety.
All garage door operators manufactured on or after january 1 1993 must be in compliance with the secondary entrapment device requirements such as the use of photoelectric sensors or edge sensors for garage door operators as published by underwriters laboratories in ul 325.
Technically there are other devices that provide adequate garage door safety for gilbert scottsdale or phoenix garage doors but sensors are the most common.
Public law 101 608 section 203 f.
Safety eye sensors and auto reverse features became mandatory on all automatic garage door openers beginning on january 1 1993.
The improvement act contains a preemption provision which states.
It prevents the doors from automatically closing when anyone is in the doorway.
Those provisions of laws of states or political subdivisions which relate to the labeling of automatic residential garage door openers and those provisions which do not provide at least the equivalent degree of protection from the risk of injury associated with automatic residential garage door openers as the consumer product safety rule are subject to preemption under 15 u s c.
Whenever there is an obstruction the garage door will automatically reverse before causing any damage.
The new mandate was to prevent entrapment and serious injury or death caused if a garage door closed on a person.
Chamberlain compatible these sensors replace defective or damaged sensors for every chamberlain garage door opener manufactured after 1997.
The replacement safety sensors project an invisible light beam across the inside of the garage door to prevent accidents and are required for safe use of all chamberlain garage door openers.
The garage door sensors are the safety add on to your garage doors.
That law states they need to be able to reverse the motion of the door within 2 seconds.
