When I tried to open the door, it moved about three inches then stopped.
It has 120 to it, 24 v to the wall switch but does not activate with the
wall switch or remote. I waited an hour and no change. Any Ideas?
Thanks,
Mark

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On 5/14/2015 2:44 PM, Mark wrote:
When I tried to open the door, it moved about three inches then stopped.
It has 120 to it, 24 v to the wall switch but does not activate with the
wall switch or remote. I waited an hour and no change. Any Ideas?
Thanks,
Mark


Must we have a secret code to know what an SD 9500 is? I'm going to
guess it may be a garage door? If so, check the safety reflectors to
see if they are properly aligned.

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 5/14/2015 2:44 PM, Mark wrote:
When I tried to open the door, it moved about three inches then stopped.
It has 120 to it, 24 v to the wall switch but does not activate with the
wall switch or remote. I waited an hour and no change. Any Ideas?
Thanks,
Mark


Must we have a secret code to know what an SD 9500 is? I'm going to
guess it may be a garage door? If so, check the safety reflectors to
see if they are properly aligned.

I believe it is Genie 1/2 Hp GDO circa pre '93 probably. First thing to
check; does the door move freely if disengaged from opener?, safety beam
if there is, working?

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 5/14/2015 2:44 PM, Mark wrote:
When I tried to open the door, it moved about three inches then stopped.
It has 120 to it, 24 v to the wall switch but does not activate with the
wall switch or remote. I waited an hour and no change. Any Ideas?
Thanks,
Mark


Must we have a secret code to know what an SD 9500 is? I'm going to
guess it may be a garage door? If so, check the safety reflectors to
see if they are properly aligned.
I get that sometimes in the late afternoon when the setting suns shines
directly into the safety reflector.

Arnie Goetchius wrote:
Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 5/14/2015 2:44 PM, Mark wrote:
When I tried to open the door, it moved about three inches then stopped.
It has 120 to it, 24 v to the wall switch but does not activate with the
wall switch or remote. I waited an hour and no change. Any Ideas?
Thanks,
Mark


Must we have a secret code to know what an SD 9500 is? I'm going to
guess it may be a garage door? If so, check the safety reflectors to
see if they are properly aligned.
I get that sometimes in the late afternoon when the setting suns shines
directly into the safety reflector.

Then you should witch around safety T beam in position. Let the
transmitter face the sun.

Tony Hwang wrote:
Arnie Goetchius wrote:
Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 5/14/2015 2:44 PM, Mark wrote:
When I tried to open the door, it moved about three inches then
stopped.
It has 120 to it, 24 v to the wall switch but does not activate with
the
wall switch or remote. I waited an hour and no change. Any Ideas?
Thanks,
Mark


Must we have a secret code to know what an SD 9500 is? I'm going to
guess it may be a garage door? If so, check the safety reflectors to
see if they are properly aligned.
I get that sometimes in the late afternoon when the setting suns shines
directly into the safety reflector.

Then you should witch around safety T beam in position. Let the
transmitter face the sun.
Good idea! Will add it to my ToDo list :-)

replying to Mark, Mark wrote:
Mark wrote:

When I tried to open the door, it moved about three inches then stopped. It
has
120 to it, 24 v to the wall switch but does not activate with the wall
switch or
remote. I waited an hour and no change. Any Ideas?
Thanks,
Mark


Yes it's a garage door, has no safety eyes and the door opens manually
with no trouble other than the weight of it. Genie says it's does not
support this model anymore so I'm leaning towards just replacing it rather
than do a piece by piece thing.
Thnaks for your help!
Mark

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On Fri, 15 May 2015 15:44:01 +0000, Mark
wrote:

replying to Mark, Mark wrote:
Mark wrote:

When I tried to open the door, it moved about three inches then stopped. It
has
120 to it, 24 v to the wall switch but does not activate with the wall
switch or
remote. I waited an hour and no change. Any Ideas?
Thanks,
Mark


Yes it's a garage door, has no safety eyes and the door opens manually
with no trouble other than the weight of it. Genie says it's does not
support this model anymore so I'm leaning towards just replacing it rather
than do a piece by piece thing.
Thnaks for your help!
Mark

Thanks for clarification, Mark.

If you hold the wall switch / button down, can you force the garage
door to operate?

I would have thought safety eye alignment, but you have none? Not a
good idea unless you have the newest technology - where safety up/down
is controlled at the power head. I only know of one brand that does
that.

So. I'd start checking any wire connections, wire caps and wire
oxidation / corrosion. At the wall switch / button, low voltage
transformer or at the power head. Clean and reattach wire connections.

....thinking out loud

On 05/15/2015 10:44 AM, Mark wrote:
replying to Mark, Mark wrote:
Mark wrote:

When I tried to open the door, it moved about three inches then
stopped. It has 120 to it, 24 v to the wall switch but does not
activate with the wall switch or remote. I waited an hour and no
change. Any Ideas?

....

Yes it's a garage door, has no safety eyes and the door opens manually
with no trouble other than the weight of it. Genie says it's does not
support this model anymore so I'm leaning towards just replacing it rather
than do a piece by piece thing. Thnaks for your help!

Where was the 120V test taken? Does the light light (assuming it has
one)? That is power to the unit not just the plug/outlet if were faulty
cord/connection.

If the motor doesn't even try on the pushbutton switch, and there is
power, you're down to a fuse perhaps or the controller. If the motor
tries then it's a possible gearing failure causing a lockup or similar.

Tried w/ door disconnect lever pulled?

Oh, last thought...if it were a firmware problem, often unplugging and
leaving for a few minutes then powering back up will cure it -- but if
it does it once it's good bet it'll do it again and become more frequent
unless just had a power glitch or something by happenstance.

BTW, w/o the safety "eyes" it has to be 30-yr or older, roughly. I just
replaced the last one of that age here a year or two ago; it finally did
just give up the ghost and couldn't find any more salvaged old Stanley
controllers to keep it going with (for years the local door shop owner
had a supply of old ones he took out and kept for parts (if you saw his
shop you'd understand he never throws _anything_ out, including trash
) but these were so old he'd run out, too...

I was just as happy w/o them; I always just mount the two together
aligned on a little board and tie it up by the unit out of the way...out
here there's too much other stuff like the stray tumbleweed or whatnot
blowing across the doors at the wrong time to just be too annoying.
With no little kids and a reversing switch anyway, don't see the need.

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"dpb" wrote in message ...
On 05/15/2015 10:44 AM, Mark wrote:

I was just as happy w/o them; I always just mount the two together aligned
on a little board and tie it up by the unit out of the way...out here
there's too much other stuff like the stray tumbleweed or whatnot blowing
across the doors at the wrong time to just be too annoying. With no little
kids and a reversing switch anyway, don't see the need.

--

I put my 'eyes' up about 2 feet off the ground. High enough so that if I
don't get the truck all the way in the light may stop the door. The garage
has a very small space left after I put the truck in it.

On 05/15/2015 1:52 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
wrote in message ...
On 05/15/2015 10:44 AM, Mark wrote:

I was just as happy w/o them; I always just mount the two together aligned
on a little board and tie it up by the unit out of the way...out here
there's too much other stuff like the stray tumbleweed or whatnot blowing
across the doors at the wrong time to just be too annoying. With no little
kids and a reversing switch anyway, don't see the need.

--

I put my 'eyes' up about 2 feet off the ground. High enough so that if I
don't get the truck all the way in the light may stop the door. The garage
has a very small space left after I put the truck in it.

That'll work for some purposes like the tumbleweed (unless it's a
full-size one, of course ) but I also like to be able to pull the car
in and close the door then go out the back to the farmyard w/o having to
walk around and thru the "inside" yard to get there. It's a pita to try
to either step over or duck under the beam, especially as I get older
and less spry!!!

The trucks are in the barn and elevator driveways which have sliding
doors; only the cars have overheads...there's a block in the garage for
them so know you're in when you're in. Even the 'full-size' Lucerne has
oodles of room in the garage now as small as stuff has gotten -- the
'60s and '70s Buicks/Chryslers of folks "not so much!"

The pickups are too wide to fit the garages; the Buick Enclave (their
AWD SUV) is in the _just_ barely category on width altho it's plenty
short enough.

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"dpb" wrote in message ...
On 05/15/2015 1:52 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:

That'll work for some purposes like the tumbleweed (unless it's a
full-size one, of course ) but I also like to be able to pull the car
in and close the door then go out the back to the farmyard w/o having to
walk around and thru the "inside" yard to get there. It's a pita to try
to either step over or duck under the beam, especially as I get older and
less spry!!!

0
What are you doing to close the door and walk out ? Do you hit the close
button and then run fast to beat the door closing ? If the door is already
open and you walk through the beam nothing hapens if it is not in the
closing cycle.

On 05/15/2015 4:14 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
....

What are you doing to close the door and walk out ? Do you hit the close
button and then run fast to beat the door closing ? ...

Ayup... Doesn't have to be _very_ fast, it runs pretty slow. Do
have to duck a mite, but that's it. I've thought of putting another
button at the rear but never got one of those round tuit thingies...

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"dpb" wrote in message ...
On 05/15/2015 4:14 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
...

What are you doing to close the door and walk out ? Do you hit the close
button and then run fast to beat the door closing ? ...

Ayup... Doesn't have to be _very_ fast, it runs pretty slow. Do have
to duck a mite, but that's it. I've thought of putting another button at
the rear but never got one of those round tuit thingies...

--

Solved that problem when I installed a new opener. I have a remote with a
keypad on it. Just enter the code from the outside and open or close the
door.

Guess that you could put a button near the door on the inside and just reach
over the beam.

On 5/15/2015 8:19 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
"dpb" wrote in message ...
On 05/15/2015 4:14 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
...

What are you doing to close the door and walk out ? Do you hit the close
button and then run fast to beat the door closing ? ...

Ayup... Doesn't have to be _very_ fast, it runs pretty slow. Do have
to duck a mite, but that's it. I've thought of putting another button at
the rear but never got one of those round tuit thingies...

--

Solved that problem when I installed a new opener. I have a remote with a
keypad on it. Just enter the code from the outside and open or close the
door.

Guess that you could put a button near the door on the inside and just reach
over the beam.



That beam is very important or the government would not mandate it. To
protect it, I put the sensors up in the rafters so nothing would disturb
it. And there is a button inside

"Tony Hwang" wrote in message
...
Must we have a secret code to know what an SD 9500 is? I'm going to
guess it may be a garage door? If so, check the safety reflectors to
see if they are properly aligned.
I get that sometimes in the late afternoon when the setting suns shines
directly into the safety reflector.

Then you should witch around safety T beam in position. Let the
transmitter face the sun.

Where I worked we had an elevator with doors on the outside. The sun would
cause that problem a times. Could not switch the sensors. Stupid door
thought someone was in the door and they would start to close, then open
back up. Someone would have to stand outside and block the sun so the
elevator could be used.

Ralph Mowery wrote:
"Tony Hwang" wrote in message
...
Must we have a secret code to know what an SD 9500 is? I'm going to
guess it may be a garage door? If so, check the safety reflectors to
see if they are properly aligned.
I get that sometimes in the late afternoon when the setting suns shines
directly into the safety reflector.

Then you should witch around safety T beam in position. Let the
transmitter face the sun.

Where I worked we had an elevator with doors on the outside. The sun would
cause that problem a times. Could not switch the sensors. Stupid door
thought someone was in the door and they would start to close, then open
back up. Someone would have to stand outside and block the sun so the
elevator could be used.


I may build a little cardboard hat to place on top of the receiver so
the sun can't get to it.

On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 7:20:04 AM UTC-5, Arnie Goetchius wrote:

I may build a little cardboard hat to place on top of the receiver so
the sun can't get to it.

"build" with cardboard? Good one! Made a "hood" with tuctape. ^L^