New Liftmaster Garage Door Opener Tripping Breaker

The breaker tripped again and wouldn t reset.

New liftmaster garage door opener tripping breaker. I think the op s new garage door opener has a fault tripping the gfi breaker. Chamberlain group cgi the corporate parent company to liftmaster chamberlain merlin and grifco is a global leader in access solutions and products. You could have a weak circuit breaker or a bad gcfi electrical outlet. The wiring in my garage is on the fritz.

A bad drive motor could cause the circuit breaker to trip. It rained very hard last night and all yesterday the home inspector told her the ground for the garage was not optimal. Only thing on the circuit is the opener and a flourcent light. A few weeks ago the breaker that my garage door opener and motion light are connected to tripped.

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. 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. The garage door at my girlfriends house keeps tripping the breaker.

We design and engineer residential garage door openers commercial door operators and gate entry systems. So in here now i manually opened the door. I reset it and the breaker was fine for a few weeks. I replaced the breaker its a qo 20a thinking it was bad but it kept tripping.

Finally it s possible the garage door opener s motor has burned out and isn t operating at all.