Electric Garage Door not opening

[Bling]

Hi, bit of a random one ….. we have an older BFT electric garage door opener on our double garage. Yesterday I reversed out of the garage, pressed the remote & the garage door closed as normal. However, when I got home, the garage door would not open with the remote or the keypad (had to go in through the house).

I checked if the unit may have tripped, but it hadn’t and all of the other items on the same fuse board are working.
I bought a new 13A fuse & replaced that in the fused spur. I Can also see that the light bulb has gone as one of the filaments is broken and there’s a black mark inside the bulb (it worked the night before). could the bulb blowing reset anything inside the machine please?

I switched off the power on the fuse board to change the fuse & remove the bulb. I cannot see any obvious buttons to press on the outside or the top, but presume there may be a reset button somewhere?

Many thanks for all of your help

 

[flameport]

could the bulb blowing reset anything inside the machine please

Probably not reset but it could certainly have blown a fuse inside the unit, or caused damage to other components.

 

[jj4091]

This shows an internal 5A fuse bottom L.H corner https://www.teknuw.com/remote-control-programming-instructions/bft-receiver/

 

[davelx]

This shows an internal 5A fuse bottom L.H corner https://www.teknuw.com/remote-control-programming-instructions/bft-receiver/

And another at the top left, which is a 100 mA slow blow.

Either might have gone. Be sure to replace with the same type of fuse as is already there

 

[Bling]

I can’t see any obvious fuses inside the unit?

 

[davelx]

Clearly not the unit that jj4091 thought you had. Is there a model number somewhere on the casing?
Quite possible that in the absence of a fuse, something else has been damaged.

 

[Bling]

Yes I just looked and it say BFT TIR 60 on the inside

 

[Bling]

I found this, but can’t see where these fuses will be in the real thing?

 

[davelx]

There must be another circuit board, perhaps the other side of the chassis? You may need to remove the control unit to get to i.

 

[Bling]

There’s nothing underneath it
There’s only the circuit boards on the side but no fuses.
Typical just before Christmas!
Many thanks

 

[baldykev]

Have you actual tested for power at the unit .?
What have you in your fuse board normal MCBs or RCBOs or a RCD covering MCBs
If RCBOs or a RCD might be worth turning it off and back on as sometimes when they trip it may not look like they have ,not gone all the way down

 

[davelx]

https://manuals.easygates.co.uk/PDF/misc/BFT-TIR-120-brochure.pdfThere’s nothing underneath it
There’s only the circuit boards on the side but no fuses.
Typical just before Christmas!
Many thanks

Is it a double sided board ? The manual (fi6 6) shows a board that is very similar to the one in your photo, but bears no resemblance to the board layout further down, which is what we both found. Could that be on the reverse side of the same board? If not then it beats me!

 

[lloyda]

Tricky to tell from the photos, but are these fuse holders?

 

[winston1]

What have you in your fuse board normal MCBs or RCBOs or a RCD covering MCBs
If RCBOs or a RCD might be worth turning it off and back on as sometimes when they trip it may not look like they have ,not gone all the way down

Fuse boards have fuses, nothing else. It is unlikely he has a fuseboard in 2022.

 

[DetlefSchmitz]

Fuse boards have fuses, nothing else. It is unlikely he has a fuseboard in 2022

What a waste of space you are!