New Liftmaster Garage Door Opener Tripping Breaker

I replaced the breaker its a qo 20a thinking it was bad but it kept tripping.

New liftmaster garage door opener tripping breaker.

The garage door at my girlfriends house keeps tripping the breaker. A bad drive motor could cause the circuit breaker to trip. We design and engineer residential garage door openers commercial door operators and gate entry systems. You could have a weak circuit breaker or a bad gcfi electrical outlet.

So in here now i manually opened the door. Finally it s possible the garage door opener s motor has burned out and isn t operating at all. It worked fine the other day. The breaker tripped again and wouldn t reset.

A short in one of the light sockets could also cause that problem. I think the op s new garage door opener has a fault tripping the gfi breaker. 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.

Chamberlain group cgi the corporate parent company to liftmaster chamberlain merlin and grifco is a global leader in access solutions and products. The wiring in my garage is on the fritz. It rained very hard last night and all yesterday the home inspector told her the ground for the garage was not optimal. I reset it and the breaker was fine for a few weeks.

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.