Always connect the power cord of the garage door opener to a properly grounded outlet to avoid electrical shock.
How to connect a garage door opener emergency release cord.
The emergency release cord is attached to the door trolley which is the piece that stays with the garage door.
Pulling the red release cord will disengage the trolley from the opener carriage the part that is moved by the motor along the rail.
For added safety attach a.
On the ceiling and attach the rail and carriage to the bracket on the door.
An emergency release cord on the garage door arm opens the trolley to allow you to disengage the garage door from the opener.
If you have ever needed to disconnect the opener from the door due to pow.
When the release cord is pulled it disconnects the trolley from the carriage allowing you to manually move the door.
The emergency release cord is the red rope that hangs from the door trolley that moves with the door along the rail.
Once these two parts are separate you can move your garage door.
You should feel and see the lever attach itself to the automatic door opener.
For screw drive models the shuttle release lever will be engaged and in the up position see image 1 below.
Which moves the door.
Attach the safety rope to the emergency release on the carriage.
Pull the emergency release cord toward the door.
Garage door openers must have a manual disconnect cord.
Now that your door is disengaged and you can carefully lift.
To disengage you ll pull the emergency release cord down which will release your garage door from the opener system.
Garage door openers are handy appliances until something goes wrong then they can actually make it harder to open the door.
In relation to the emergency release cord the trolley has two positions.
The emergency release cord is there to make sure that doesn t happen.
The trolley sits on the opener carriage.
Once you are done maneuvering your garage door and are ready to re engage the automatic door opener please return the garage door back to the down position.
You will notice that there is a lever that moves up and down when you pull on the cord.
This short video goes along with one of our blogs on the d d garage door website.
Depending on your model you will have to move the chord to the appropriate location.
Pull the red emergency release cord.
Now you need to pull back on the release cord.
