How To Fix Garage Door Opener Keypad

Reboot the garage door opener.

How to fix garage door opener keypad.

In the event of a prolonged power outage the garage door opener keypad may lose your personal code. To do this turn off your garage door opener and unplug it for five minutes. While it says universal it isn t 100 universal so check to make sure your garage door opener is in the 99 that it works with. After pressing the learn button on the side of the motor your partner will have 30 seconds to enter the code into the keypad.

Garage door reverses immediately after touching the floor. When the garage door immediately leaps upward after touching the floor this too is a close limit switch problem. Some models of opener allow you to temporarily deactivate the external keypad using the buttons on the opener mechanism. As a last resort if you can t get your garage door opener keypad to work or you re having persistent problems with the system reboot the whole thing.

If the garage door opener keypad is installed on the outside of the door it will start to corrode on the inside. It s likely either going to have two screws or one screw and then a sliding hole on a screw. This should erase any data in the memory and allow you to start fresh. Adjust the close limit adjustment screw on the door opener motor in small increments until the door stops upon touching the floor.

Remove the cover of the keypad and check out the terminals. In order to fix this you ll want to make small changes to the close limit setting until the door opener knows to stop once the door has reached the floor. If this happens you will need to reset it. If they are corroded you can try to sand them down to bare metal.

Set the ladder up near your garage door motor and carefully climb up to the point where you can reach it. Replace the keypad and enter your code for the unit to work. Check that the keypad is enabled for use with your garage door opener. Next remove the old keypad using the screws.

Hold it until the led light blinks and key in your digits. Check your instruction manual for more information on activating your keypad.