The garage door at my girlfriends house keeps tripping the breaker.
New liftmaster garage door opener tripping breaker.
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I think the op s new garage door opener has a fault tripping the gfi breaker.
A short in one of the light sockets could also cause that problem.
A short in the control board or the wiring of the garage door opener could also cause that problem.
This is a problem that will require you or a service person to replace it.
So in here now i manually opened the door.
The breaker tripped again and wouldn t reset.
A bad drive motor could cause the circuit breaker to trip.
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.
Only thing on the circuit is the opener and a flourcent light.
We design and engineer residential garage door openers commercial door operators and gate entry systems.
I replaced the breaker its a qo 20a thinking it was bad but it kept tripping.
You could have a weak circuit breaker or a bad gcfi electrical outlet.
I reset it and the breaker was fine for a few weeks.
A few weeks ago the breaker that my garage door opener and motion light are connected to tripped.
It worked fine the other day.
The wiring in my garage is on the fritz.