Urno

Does anyone happen to recognise these symptoms; when i press the remote, instead of opening/closing, the motor housing makes four or five clicks, which sound like a car indicator.

I can get it done on the insurance, and the manufacturer reckons it might need a new "logic board", but won't give me a price for this!!

There was no warning, it was working fine, then it broke.

Any ideas??

Ta.

busterboy

Bunnings sell a heap of these things. Not sure you how you match them up though.

Urno

Hmmm. I'm sure one motor is much the same as the other.....any ideas how much they are?

The Bloke

You'd be better asking an installer of the doors that you have for a quote. That is probably why the manufacturer would not give you a price as they would only deal with distributors and installers. Google the brand and it should have links to installers, or contact the manufacturer and ask to be put in contact with one of their approved installers.

PoppetUK

Ours did that in our rental when we moved in. Fiddled a bit and it worked ok. There was a setting that stopped it opening and closing for security. Probably not the same but worth looking at.

Machiavelli

One of our doors did that last year.

We got someone to come and service it. Turns out the chain was lose and needed tightening, (like a bike chain). We had it fixed as part of the 'service' of the two openers. Less than $200 for both, and a year's guarantee on the servicing.

M

Wol

What is the make?

We have had quite a few similar problems with our garage doors and gates. Most of them have various settings such as torque limiters, timeouts, etc which can often be just outside limits and which can be re-set easily. If you have the manuals or can download them it's often just a case of working through the options.

My guess would be that the doors have got "sticky" and the torque limiter is stopping the motor running them. If you can "help" the doors to move this would be the case and a good lube of the side runners with silicone lubricant would possibly work.

Fly Away

We had an electric garage door for years in the UK. It used to play funny fellas sometimes. The very first thing you should do is turn off the power to the motor and put it back on again. That's what the service guy told me to do and it worked 9 times out of 10.

After that, try making sure there is no blockage on the track or as someone else, said the chain looks taut. You can disconnect the motor and open the door manaully to check if there is a physical problem or block.