CRAFTSMAN 139.53525SRT Garage Door Opener Owner’s Manual

CRAFTSMAN 139.53525SRT Garage Door Opener Owner’s Manual

Model No.
139.53525SRT
139.53627SRT
139.53636SRT
139.53640SRT
139.53641 SRT

For Residential Use only
Caution:
Read and follow all safety rules and operating instructions before first use of this product.

Fasten the manual near the garage door after installation.

Start by reviewing these important safety alert symbols
When you see these Safety Symbols on the following pages, they will alert you to the possibility of serious injury or death if you do not comply with the corresponding instructions. The hazard may come from something mechanical or from electric shock. Read the instructions carefully.

You’ll Need Tools
During assembly, installation and adjustment of the opener, instructions will call for hand tools shown below.

WARNING

An unbalanced garage door might not reverse when required and someone under the door could be seriously injured or killed.

If your garage door binds, sticks or is out of balance, call for professional garage door service. Garage doors, door springs, cables, pulleys, brackets and their hardware are under extreme tension and can cause serious injury or death. Do not try to loosen, move or adjust them yourself!

Ropes left on a garage door could cause someone to become entangled and killed.
Remove all ropes connected to the door before installing and operating the opener.

Identify the type and height of your door and any special conditions that exist and any additional materials that may be required by referring to the lists on page 4 or page 5.

Identify the type and height of your door and any special conditions that exist and any additional materials that may be required by referring to the lists on page 4 or page 5.

CAUTION

To avoid damage to the garage door and opener, disable locks before installing and operating the opener. Use a wood screw or nail to hold locks in the “open” (unlocked) position.
Operation at other than 120V 60 Hz will cause opener malfunction and damage.

Before you begin, complete the following test to make sure your door is balanced, and is not sticking or binding:

• Lift the door about halfway as shown. Release the door. It should stay in place, supported entirely by its springs.
• Raise and lower the door to see if there is any binding or sticking.

SECTIONAL Door Installation

Opener Carton Inventory
Your garage door opener is packaged in two cartons which contain all parts illustrated below. If anything is missing, carefully check the packing material. Parts may be “stuck” in the foam. Hardware for assembly and installation is shown on page 7.

Separate all hardware from the packages in the rail carton and the opener carton, as shown below, for the assembly and installation procedures.

Assembly Section:

To avoid installation difficulties, do not run the garage door opener until instructed to do so.

You have now finished assembling your garage door opener. Please read the following warnings before proceeding to the installation section:

IMPORTANT INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

WARNING

To reduce the risk of severe injury or death to persons:

1. READ AND FOLLOW ALL INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS.
2. Install only on a properly balanced and lubricated garage door. An improperly balanced door may not reverse and could result in severe injury or death. Repairs to cables, spring assemblies and other hardware must be made by a professional service person before installing opener.
3. Disable all locks and remove all ropes connected to the garage door before installing the opener. Ropes connected to a garage door can cause entanglement and death.
4. If possible, install door opener 7 feet or more above floor with the emergency release handle mounted 6 feet above the floor.
5. Do not connect the opener to power source until instructed to do so.
6. Locate the Wall Control within sight of the door at a minimum height of 5 feet where small children cannot reach and away from all moving parts of the door.
7. Install the User Safety Instruction Label on the wall adjacent to the control button and the Maintenance Instruction Label in a prominent location on the inside of the garage door.
8. Upon completion of the installation, the door must reverse when it comes in contact with a one-inch high object or a 2×4 laid fiat on the floor.
9. Do not wear watches, rings or loose clothing while installing or servicing an opener. Jewelry or loose clothing can be caught in the mechanism of the garage door or the opener.

Installation Section:

Installation Step 1
Determine Header Bracket Location Installation procedures vary according to garage door types. Follow the instructions which apply to your door.

WARNING

If the header bracket is not rigidly fastened to a structural support on the header wall or ceiling, the safety reverse system may not work properly (see page 30). The door might not reverse when required, and could cause serious injury or death.

The garage door springs, cables, pulleys, brackets and their hardware are under extreme tension. Do not attempt to loosen, move or adjust them yourself. Serious personal injury or death could result. Call for professional garage door service.

• Close the door and mark the inside vertical centerline of the garage door.
• Extend the line onto the header wall above the door.

Remember, you can fasten the header bracket within 2 feet of the left or right of the door center only if a torsion spring or center bearing plate is in the way; or you can attach it to the ceiling (refer to page 14) when clearance is minimal. (It may be mounted on the wall upside down if necessary, to gain approximately 1/2″.)

If you need to install the header bracket on a 2×4 (on wall or ceiling), use lag screws (not supplied) to securely fasten the 2×4 to structural supports as shown here and on page 13.

The Safety Reversing System

Information you’ll need before you begin the installation of the safety reversing sensor.
The safety reversing sensor must be connected and aligned correctly before the garage door opener will move in the down direction. This is a required safety device and cannot be disabled.
Installation procedures are the same for sectional and one-piece doors.

WARNING

Without a properly working safety reversing sensor, persons (particularly children) could be injured or killed by a closing garage door.
Read and follow all instructions,
To protect small children, install the safety reversing sensor so that the beam will be no higher than 4″-6″ above the garage floor.
Disconnect power to the garage door opener before installing the safety reversing sensor.

Be sure power to the opener is disconnected.
The sending eye transmits an invisible light beam to the receiving eye. The units can be installed on either side of the garage door as long as the sun never shines directly into the receiving eye lens.
Look at the label on the connector end of each case to identify the sensors.

The brackets must be connected and fastened so that the sending and receiving eyes face each other as shown in Figure 1.

If an obstruction breaks the light beam while the garage door is closing, the door will stop and reverse to full open position and the opener lights will flash for 5 seconds.

The brackets must be securely fastened to a solid surface such as the studs on either side of the door, or add a piece of wood at each location if installing in masonry construction.

The invisible light beam path must be unobstructed. No part of the garage door (or door tracks, springs, hinges, rollers or other hardware) can interrupt the beam while the door is closing. If it does, use a piece of wood to build out each sensor mounting location to the minimum depth required for light beam clearance.

Adjustment Procedures for One-Piece Doors

Open Door Adjustment:
Decrease UP limit

• Turn the UP limit adjustment screw counterclockwise 5-1/2 turns.
• Press the Wall Control push bar. The trolley will travel to the fully open position.
• Manually raise the door to the open position (parallel to the floor), and lift the door arm to the trolley. The arm should touch the trolley just in back of the door arm connector hole. Refer to the fully open trolley/door arm positions in the illustration. If the arm does not extend far enough, adjust the limit further. One full turn equals 2″ of trolley travel.

Closed Door Adjustment:
Decrease DOWN limit

• Turn the DOWN limit adjustment screw clockwise 5 complete turns.
• Press the Wall Control push bar. The trolley will travel to the fully closed position.
• Manually close the door and lift the door arm to the trolley. The arm should touch the trolley just ahead of the door arm connector hole. Refer to the fully closed trolley/door arm positions in the illustration. If the arm is behind the connector hole, adjust the limit further. One full turn equals 2″ of trolley travel.

Connect the door arm to the trolley.

• Close the door and join the curved arm to the connector hole in the trolley with the remaining clevis pin. It may be necessary to lift the door slightly to make the connection.
• Secure with a ring fastener.
• Run the opener through a complete travel cycle. If the door has a slight “backward” slant in full open 3osition as shown in the illustration, decrease the UP limit until the door is parallel to the floor.

Adjustment Section:

Adjustment procedures are outlined below. Run the opener through a complete travel cycle after each adjustment.

Repeated operation of the opener during adjustment procedures may cause the motor to overheat and shut off. Simply wait 15 minutes and try again.
Read the procedures carefully before proceeding to Adjustment Step 2. Use a screwdriver to make limit adjustments.

How and When to Adjust the Limits

If the door does not open completely but opens at leastfive feet
Increase up travel. Turn the UP limit adjustment screw clockwise. One turn equals 2″ of travel.
If door does not open at least 5 feet: Adjust the
UP (open) force as explained in Adjustment Step 2.
If the door does not close completely
Increase down travel. Turn the DOWN limit adjustment screw counterclockwise. One turn equals 2″ of travel.
If door still won’t close completely, try lengthening the door arm. (See Page 26.)
If you have adjusted the door arm to the maximum length and the door still will not close completely, lower the header bracket. See Installation Step 1, pages 12and 13.

If the opener reverses in fully closed position
Decrease down travel. Turn the DOWN limit adjustment screw clockwise. One turn equals 2″ of travel.

If the door reverses when closing and there is no visible interference to travel cycle
If the opener lights are flashing, the Safety Reversing Sensor is obstructed. Remove the obstruction.

Test the door for binding: Pull the emergency release handle. Manually open and close the door. If the door is binding, call for garage door service. If the door is not binding or unbalanced, adjust the DOWN (close) force. See Adjustment Step 2.

How and When to Adjust the Forces

Test the DOWN (close) force
Grasp the door bottom when the door is about halfway through DOWN (close) travel. The door should reverse. Reversal halfway through down travel does not guarantee reversal on a two-inch obstruction. See page 30. If the door is hard to hold or doesn’t reverse, decrease the DOWN (close) force by turning the control counterclockwise. Make 10 degree turn adjustments until the door reverses normally. After each adjustment, run the opener through a complete cycle.

Test the UP (open) force
Grasp the door bottom when the door is about halfway through UP (open) travel. The door should stop. If the door is hard to hold or doesn’t stop, decrease UP (open) force by turning the control counterclockwise.

Make 10 degree turn adjustments until the door stops easily. After each adjustment, run the opener through a complete travel cycle.

If the door doesn’t open at least 5 feet
Increase UP (Open) force by turning the control clockwise. Make 10 degree turn adjustments until door opens completely. Re-adjust the UP limit if necessary. After each adjustment, run the opener through a complete travel cycle.

If the door reverses during the down (close) cycle and the opener lights aren’t flashing
Increase DOWN (close) force by turning the control clockwise. Make 10 degree turn adjustments until the door completes a close cycle. After each adjustment, run the opener through a complete travel cycle. Do not increase the force beyond the minimum amount required to close the door.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

WARNING

To reduce the risk of severe injury or death to persons:

1. READ AND FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTIONS.
2. Do not permit children either to operate or to play with the opener. Keep remote control in a location inaccessible to children.
3. Operate opener only when the door is in full view and free from any obstruction. Keep the door in sight until it is completely closed. NO ONE SHOULD CROSS THE PATH OF THE MOVING DOOR.
4. Check safety reversal system monthly. See page 30. The garage door MUST reverse on contact with a one-inch (or a 2×4 board laid fiat) object placed on the floor. If an adjustment is made to either the force or the limit of travel, both adjustments may be needed and the safety reversal system must be checked. Failure to properly adjust the opener may result in severe injury or death.
5. If possible, use the emergency release only when the door is in a closed position. Caution should be taken whenever the disconnect cord is actuated with the door open. Weak or broken springs may cause the door to fall rapidly, causing injury or death to persons.
6. KEEP GARAGE DOORS PROPERLY BALANCED. See page 3.An improperly balanced door may not reverse when required and could result in severe injury or death. Repairs to cables, spring assemblies and other hardware must be made by a professional garage door person.
7. Disconnect the electric power to the garage door opener before making any repairs or removing the covers.
8. SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS.

Care of Your Opener

Limit and force adjustment controls

Weather conditions may cause some minor changes in door operation requiring some readjustments, particularly during the first year of operation.
Pages 28 and 29 refer to the limit and force adjustments. Only a screwdriver is required. Follow the instructions carefully.
Repeat the safety reverse test (page 30) after any adjustment of limits or force.

The remote control
The opener must learn the code of any new remote control. Page 33 explains how to program your receiver and how to erase all codes if required. Self service of your receiver is not recommended. If service is needed, contact your nearest Sears Service Center.

The remote control battery
The green test light should glow and the opener should operate when the remote control is activated.
If the green test light is dim or does not come on, replace the battery.
The 12 Volt battery should produce power for at least a year.
Dispose of your old battery properly.

Maintenance Schedule

Once a Month
Manually operate door. If it is unbalanced or binding, call for professional garage door service.
Check to be sure door opens & closes fully.
Adjust limits and/or force if necessary.
(See pages 28 and 29.)
Repeat the safety reverse test. Make any necessary adjustments (See page 30).

Twice a Year

Check chain tension. Disconnect trolley first.
Adjust if necessary (See page 11).

Once a Year
Oil door rollers, bearings and hinges
The opener does not require additional lubrication.
Do not grease the door tracks.

Operation of Your Opener

Activate the opener with any of the following devices:

1. The 3-Function Remote control. Hold large push button down until the door starts to move.
2. The Wall Control. Hold push bar down until the door starts to move.
3. The Key Switch or Keyless Entry.

When the Opener is Activated:

1. If open, the door will close. If closed, it will open.
2. If closing, the door will reverse.
3. If opening, the door will stop (allowing space for entry and exit of pets and for fresh air).
4. If the door has been stopped in a partially open position, it will close.
5. If obstructed while closing, the door will reverse.
6. If obstructed while opening, the door will stop.
7. The garage door will reverse in the closing cycle when the invisible beam is broken. If fully open, the door will not close when the beam is broken. The sensor has no effect in the opening cycle.

If the sensor is not installed, or not aligned correctly, the door can’t close from any portable remote control. It can be closed with the Wall Control, the Key Switch, or the Keyless Entry, however, by pressing and holding the push bar until down travel is complete. If you release the push bar too soon, the door will reverse.

The opener lights will blink for 5 seconds when the safety reversing sensor causes the door to reverse.
Opener Lights will turn on under the following conditions: When the opener is initially plugged in; when the power is interrupted; when the opener is activated. They will turn off automatically after 4-1/2 minutes or provide constant light when the Light feature is activated. Bulb size is 75 watts maximum.

WARNING

Weak or broken springs could allow an open door to fall (either rapidly or unexpectedly), resulting in serious injury, death or property damage. If possible, use the emergency release rope and handle only when the door is fully closed.

Operation of the Deluxe Lighted Console Wall Control

Lighted Push Bar
Press to open or close the door.
Press again to reverse the door during the closing
cycle or to stop the door while it’s opening.

Light Feature
Press the Light button. If the opener lights are off, they will turn on.
If the opener lights are on, (even in the 4-1/2 minute automatic cycle) they will turn off.

But if you use the Light button to turn the lights on and then activate the opener, the lights will turn off after 4-1/2 minutes.

The Light button will not control the opener lights when the door is in motion.

Lock Feature
The Lock feature is designed to prevent operation of the door from portable remote controls. However, the door will open and closefrom the Wall Control push bar, the Key Switch and the Multi-Function Keyless Entry.

To Activate:
Press and hold the Lock button for 2 seconds. The push bar light will flash as long as the Lock feature is on.

To turn off:
Press and hold the Lock button again for 2 seconds.The push bar light will stop flashing.
Normal operation will resume. The Lock feature will also turn off whenever the “SRT” button on the opener end panel is activated.

Receiver and Remote Control Programming

To comply with FCC rules, adjustment or modifications of this receiver] and/or transmitter are prohibited, except for changing the code setting or I replacing the battery. THERE ARE NO OTHER USER SERVICEABLE| PARTS.

Your 53000SRT series garage door opener (with receiver “SRT” button) has been factory set to operate with the large push button on the remote control(s). However, you can use either of the two small buttons, if you prefer. And, the 3-function remote control(s) can also activate additional garage door openers and/or light controls.

Below are instructions for programming your opener to match the other buttons on your remote controls and any additional remote controls you may purchase. See available accessories on page 38.

53000SRT Series Garage Door Openers (With “SRT” Button)
Your “SRT” garage door opener will operate with as many as four “SRT” portable remote controls and one Multi-Function Keyless Entry.

To Add A Remote Control

1. Select a remote control push button to operate the receiver.
2. Press and hold the selected remote control push button, Figure 1.
3. Then press and release the “SRT” button on the right side panel of the opener in Figure 2. The opener light will flash once.

Now the opener will operate when the remote control push button is pressed.

If you release the remote control push button before the opener light flashes, the opener will not accept the code.

To Change the Selected Push Button
On the Same Remote control
If you decide to use a different remote control button than originally programmed into the opener, you must erase all the learned codes and reprogram each remote control used to operate the garage door opener.

To Erase All Remote control Codes

• Press and hold the “SRT” button on the opener panel until the indicator light turns off (about 6 seconds). AII the codes the opener has learned will be erased.
• To reprogram, repeat Steps 1,2 and 3 for each remote control in use.

Code programming instructions are also located on the opener panel.

WARNING

Children operating or playing with a garage door opener can injure themselves or others.
The garage door could close and cause serious injury or death. Do not allow children to operate the wall push button(s) or remote control(s).

A moving garage door could injure or kill someone under it. Activate the opener only when you can see the door clearly, it is free of obstructions, and is properly adjusted.

Having a Problem?

Repair Parts

Accessories

Sears offers many useful accessories for your garage door opener. They are illustrated below with Sears model numbers and descriptions.

Sears, Roebuck and Co., Hoffman Estates, IL 60179 U.S.A.
@1995, All Rights Reserved

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