New Liftmaster Garage Door Opener Tripping Breaker

If the circuit breaker or gfci is tripping repeatedly it s a sign that there is a short circuit somewhere in the system possibly even the garage door opener itself.

New liftmaster garage door opener tripping breaker.

We design and engineer residential garage door openers commercial door operators and gate entry systems. I think the op s new garage door opener has a fault tripping the gfi breaker. The wiring in my garage is on the fritz. A short in one of the light sockets could also cause that problem.

The garage door at my girlfriends house keeps tripping the breaker. Chamberlain group cgi the corporate parent company to liftmaster chamberlain merlin and grifco is a global leader in access solutions and products. I reset it and the breaker was fine for a few weeks. A short in the control board or the wiring of the garage door opener could also cause that problem.

A few weeks ago the breaker that my garage door opener and motion light are connected to tripped. Only thing on the circuit is the opener and a flourcent light. It rained very hard last night and all yesterday the home inspector told her the ground for the garage was not optimal. I d advise a temporary test using an extension cord plugged into a known different circuit to plug in the garage door opener in to for 2 or 3 days and see if the gfi breaker continues to trip after the opener has been removed from the circuit.

It worked fine the other day. This is a problem that will require you or a service person to replace it. So in here now i manually opened the door. A bad drive motor could cause the circuit breaker to trip.

The breaker tripped again and wouldn t reset.