A bad drive motor could cause the circuit breaker to trip.
New liftmaster garage door opener tripping breaker.
It worked fine the other day.
The breaker tripped again and wouldn t reset.
A few weeks ago the breaker that my garage door opener and motion light are connected to tripped.
Only thing on the circuit is the opener and a flourcent light.
Finally it s possible the garage door opener s motor has burned out and isn t operating at all.
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.
I replaced the breaker its a qo 20a thinking it was bad but it kept tripping.
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.
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.
This is a problem that will require you or a service person to replace it.
A short in the control board or the wiring of the garage door opener could also cause that problem.
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The wiring in my garage is on the fritz.
I reset it and the breaker was fine for a few weeks.