New Liftmaster Garage Door Opener Tripping Breaker

It rained very hard last night and all yesterday the home inspector told her the ground for the garage was not optimal.

New liftmaster garage door opener tripping breaker.

I think the op s new garage door opener has a fault tripping the gfi breaker. A short in the control board or the wiring of the garage door opener could also cause that problem. 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. Only thing on the circuit is the opener and a flourcent light.

I replaced the breaker its a qo 20a thinking it was bad but it kept tripping. The garage door at my girlfriends house keeps tripping the breaker. The wiring in my garage is on the fritz. We design and engineer residential garage door openers commercial door operators and gate entry systems.

A short in one of the light sockets could also cause that problem. You could have a weak circuit breaker or a bad gcfi electrical outlet. Chamberlain group cgi the corporate parent company to liftmaster chamberlain merlin and grifco is a global leader in access solutions and products. So in here now i manually opened the door.

I reset it and the breaker was fine for a few weeks. Finally it s possible the garage door opener s motor has burned out and isn t operating at all. A bad drive motor could cause the circuit breaker to trip. A few weeks ago the breaker that my garage door opener and motion light are connected to tripped.

It worked fine the other day.