Six-Inch Rule!

The Six-Inch Rule

WRONG! To mount the sensor has been dangerously high at 25 inches off the ground. Six inches high is the maximum height for the Six-Inch Rule.

The Six-Inch Rule

Since January 1, 1993, federal law require that garage door operators be manufacture with secondary entrapment protection devices. Photoelectric sensors are the most common means to provide this entrapment protection.

The effectiveness of photoelectric sensors depends on the proper install of these devices. The technician who installs or services the door and operator system must ensure that the photoelectric sensors have installed according to the manufacturer’s instructions.

Important: To Install these sensors must not be higher than six inches above the garage floor.

To install of the sensors higher than six inches off the floor, “You increase the possibility that someone lay beneath the photo-eye, or crawling under the photo-eye, will not be detected by the beam,” says Barbara Kelkhoff of Chamberlain, chairperson of the DASMA Door Operator Committee. In addition, she says, the garage door opener will not comply with the law.

If you have any questions about the mounting height of a photoelectric sensor, Kelkhoff urges you to call the operator manufacturer.

 

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