Craftsman 1/2 HP Garage Door Opener Problem
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Craftsman 1/2 hp Garage Door opener won't open
Comments (2)Cut your losses and chunk the Craftsman garage door opener. Get a Genie and you will never post a question about openers on this forum again. A little research on this forum will show you hundreds of posts about those badly engineered and cheaply produced monsters. There are probably more questions about them than anything else on this forum. I recommend the Genie "Excelerator". Opens twice as fast, quiet, has two lights, and extremely reliable. See the Genie link below. Here is a link that might be useful: Genie Excelerator at Home Depot...See MoreCraftsman 1/2 HP Garage Door Opener SIMILAR Problem
Comments (11)Well, rather than a repair, I just moved into our house (3 years old) and the third car opener has never worked right. It initially would go up, but not down, and didn't stop at the top, it just jammed and vibrated against the opener unit. I opened it up to find that somehow the open adjustment stop was bent and the locator just went right by it and kept trying to go up. I righted that situation by bending the stop back and setting the open travel adjustment properly. So now, it will open, and when hitting the stop, does stop. But, it will not close. I can manually close it by removing the belt from the motor and getting everything set at the bottom, then push the button and it opens again and stops properly at the top. Holding down the button does no good, and I can confirm the photo sensors are aligned properly because if I block them, the opener lights come on. It just seems to me that whatever switch exists to tell the opener it is at the top and needs to reverse direction has failed, but I have no idea what that is or how to fix it. I did find the start capacitor you guys were talking about (big blue guy, 4 wires, two red, two blue). My terminals are top and bottom, with connections on each side of it. The reds are on the bottom, and the blues on top. My opener is model 139.53954. Thanks for helping....See MoreCraftsman 1/2 HP Garage Door Opener problem
Comments (1)I would unplug the opener, remove the cover and check all connections especially the connection to the logic board. It is a quick disconnect that may not have been installed correctly. While you are at it I would check the logic board for burnt or broken traces. I won't even ask how you discovered the broom trick....See Morecraftsman 1/2 hp garage door opener problem
Comments (1)With the door manually closed does the closer operate properly. It could still be the sensors. Anything blocking the sensor at any point of the closing will reverse the door. One of the sensors could be loose and moving out alignment when the door closes....See MoreRelated Professionals
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