![]() I did this because my brother-in-law mentioned that he had pulled the emergency release handle on the north opener a couple of times when trying to fix the opener himself, and I thought maybe he had re-engaged the door in the “wrong position.” I was trying to replicate this on the south opener to see how the opener might “reset” itself. No change.Īfter other unsuccessful efforts to find anything visually operationally different between the two openers, I thought I’d try to see if the south (perfectly-working) opener could automatically reset itself if the opener had been disengaged using the emergency release cable and the door had been moved before being re-engaged. With the covers off, I watched the potentiometer screw and sliding switch and thought maybe it was binding somewhere so I gave it a little shot of WD-40. ![]() My brother-in-law had apparently been trying to diagnose it himself sometime earlier because he had already taken off all of the openers’ covers before I showed up. Well, I thought I would be able to figure out the problem by just running the perfectly-working south opener through a few cycles to see how its operation differed from the north one and then be able to easily fix it. The south opener worked perfectly – the motor pivoted up and down as designed. Other than that, it opened and closed the door just fine. The “problem” he was having was that the north opener’s motor was not dropping down into the vertical lock position after the door was closed. My brother-in-law has two single bay garage doors with two separate iDrive Torquemaster openers (a “north” bay and a “south” bay). Okay, so a few weekends ago, I help my brother-in-law diagnose and fix his sprinkler system problem in 20 minutes instead of the two hours I was expecting it would take to find, dig up, and fix the wiring problem.Īs I was walking out of his garage to put my tools away and leave, my brother-in-law asks me, “Do you know anything about garage door openers?” Well, since I’ve put in a couple in my houses in the past and diagnosed and fixed them – and since I’ve always been rather curious about his “iDrive” openers, never having seen one anywhere before, I told him, “I’ll take a look.”
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