User's Manual

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WARNING
WARNING WARNING
WARNING
INTRODUCTION
Safety Symbol and Signal Word Review
This garage door opener has been designed and tested to offer safe service provided it is installed, operated,
maintained and tested in strict accordance with the instructions and warnings contained in this manual.
When you see these Safety Symbols and Signal Words on the following pages, they will alert you to
the possibility of serious injury or death if you do not comply with the warnings that accompany them.
The hazard may come from something or from electric shock. Read the warnings carefully.
Mechanical Electrical
When you see this Signal Word on the following pages, it will alert you to the possibility of damage to
your garage door and/or the garage door opener if you do not comply with the cautionary statements
that accompany it. Read them carefully.
Check your garage door
1 Disable locks and remove any ropes connected to the garage door.
2 Lift the door halfway up. Release the door. If balanced, it should stay in place, supported entirely by its springs.
3 Raise and lower the door to check for binding or sticking. If your door binds, sticks, or is out of balance, call a trained door
systems technician.
4 Check the seal on the bottom of the door. Any gap between the floor and the bottom of the door must not exceed 1/4 inch
(6 mm). Otherwise, the safety reversal system may not work properly.
5 The opener should be installed above the center of the door. If there is a torsion spring or center bearing plate in the way of
the header bracket, it may be installed within 4 feet (1.2 m) to the left or right of the door center. See Installing the Header
Bracket section.
CAUTION
To prevent possible SERIOUS INJURY or DEATH:
 ALWAYS call a trained door systems technician if
garage door binds, sticks, or is out of balance. An
unbalanced garage door may not reverse when
required.
 NEVER try to loosen, move or adjust garage door,
door springs, cables, pulleys, brackets or their
hardware, ALL of which are under EXTREME
tension.
 Disable ALL locks and remove ALL ropes
connected to
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CAUTION
To prevent damage to garage door and opener:
 ALWAYS disable locks BEFORE installing and
operating the opener.
 ONLY operate garage door opener at 120V, 60 Hz to
avoid malfunction and damage.
To reduce the risk of injury to persons
Use this operator only with Sectional Door.