Garage Door Hear Click And Not Open

You can hear a click like relay is picking up and light comes on so elec connection is fine.

Garage door hear click and not open.

Many garage doors have a powerful torsion spring located horizontally above the door. Usually located towards the front of your garage the manual release is that brightly colored cord hanging down within easy reach. Also the opener may work sometimes but on other occasions it does not respond. No movement of drive chain and sprocket.

A power outage or surge particularly one that results from a storm may either cause a temporary malfunction or permanently damage the circuit board. Turn the power back on and the door should open and close normally. The first step is to locate the emergency release and disengage it do it only if the garage door is completely closed. Can t forcibly move drive chain either.

Without any warning the garage door will not open. If you click your remote and hear the garage door opener s motor running but the door won t open the first thing you should do is check to see that the manual release isn t engaged. The next step is to attempt to open your garage door manually. If so and it is a chamberlain sears or liftmaster then the gear assembly inside is damaged.

A faulty circuit board will cause the garage door opener to make clicking sounds. Shut off the power to the garage door opener. Check the door s electric eye. This will determine if the issue is connected to the door itself or the opener.

In this video i ll show you the issue with a garage door opener that makes noise but won t move. The opener motor is fine but the shaft doesn t turn. If it is a genie then the plastic adapter between the motor and the screw is stripped.