You can do this either by clicking your remote or by pressing the button on the opener in your garage.
Re engage garage door without power.
You simply pull back on the emergency cord and it disengages.
Luckily opening a garage door without power is simple and easy.
The carriage which connects to the door arm locks around the opener trolley during normal operation.
Raise the garage door fully.
An emergency release cord on the garage door arm opens the trolley to allow you to disengage the garage door from the opener.
Pull straight down on the emergency release rope once the door is open.
Re engaging your garage door opener after a power outage.
To engage it remotely press the button on your remote control so that the door will move back into place.
Next up is reattaching the gear to the track.
You ll know the trolley is re engaged when the door goes up and down on its own.
If you lose power the garage door opener s quick release mechanism allows you to operate the door manually.
Pulling back a second time does nothing.
This prevents the carriage from reconnecting to the opener rail trolley.
This will compress the spring lever and allow the two mechanisms to reconnect.
Pull the emergency release rope toward the opener motor head.
You can then open and close the door manually by raising it up and lowering it.
When the trolley meets with the carriage they will connect and re engage.
Once the power comes back on you must re engage the garage door opener to the door.
Trying to reengage your garage door opener with the door closed doesn t work.
The first key is that you have to open your garage door.
Once the power is restored to the garage door opener you must.
Re connect the trolley to the opener carriage.
To engage it manually slide the garage door along the track until the trolley re engages.
When the spring lever is in the connected position the position required to re engage the garage door opener carriage the spring lever is compressed.
How to reengage a garage door opener.
To achieve the connected position pull the emergency release cord down and toward the door away from the motor.
When you disengage it it s easy and obvious.
Operate your garage door opener.