Fitting Electric Motor To Garage Door

Roll up the door until the mark is visible.

Fitting electric motor to garage door.

We show you how to fit a motor to a roller door. Now the door is pinned you can install the motor. Then lift the door about half a turn from the closed position to give you enough room to drill. Choose a motor type to match your needs i e.

We need to reset the limits again this determines the top open position and closed position of your garage door when open or shut. In this case we use the ata gdo 6 easy roller gen2 with a light for an internal garage door. Use the ata gdo. Stop at this point and make sure your garage door is not heavy just because it is either too old or fitted incorrectly in the first place as an electric motor may well open and close the door but will not be a safe long term solution.

Attach the rail to the motor compartment. Automating a sectional garage door virtually all sectional doors can be motorised unless as per point 1 the door is in a sorry state. Then feed the belt or chain through the end of the rail around the pulley then around the other end at the motor. Lock it onto the motor by pulling the chord plug the motor into power.

Install the pulley at end of rail opposite the motor compartment. This is the largest piece of the opener and it will be positioned furthest from the garage door. Here i will show how to fit a used up over garage door if you just bought one second hand with no instruction then watch this its quite easy to fit if you. If you have low headroom.

Step by step video instruction how to fit roller garage doors by birkdale. The common mistake is thinking you should have an electric motor fitted to your door because it is very heavy.