There are three speed settings for both the opening and closing for these openers.
Garage door opener speed.
However an average residential garage door is still designed to move at the rate of about seven inches per second.
The two types of garage door openers in this video are the odyssey and destiny openers.
The factory setting for the speed is the maximum for both the opening and closing of the opener.
Program your garage door opening closing speed.
Most new garage door openers are preset to the lowest.
Check the setting of opener speed.
Press the tabs on either side of the access panel on the opener and tilt up or down to remove the panel.
That translates into roughly 12 15 seconds of operation time to open or close the garage door.
The average speed of a residential garage door is around seven inches per second in other words every seven inches the garage door moves up or down equals one second of operation time.
This video will show you how to change the speed on a garage door opener.
Warehouses and other commercial enterprises often have high speed doors designed to open and close extra fast to meet the demands of an industrial environment.