I have have done all the electrical connections in my house myself, thanks mostly to your videos. Now I'm going to install a day/night switch, thanks to this video.
This saved me such a headache! Thank you. I am not an electrician. Did pretty well with circuitry in school. But understanding household wiring has always been challenging for me and the instructions with this day/night switch were pretty useless. After day one of trying to figure it out myself, I watched this and had it done chop-chop on day 2 ;)
Thank you for your help... Now with this loadshading how can one add an inverter to my db for battery back up? So my lights and least my TV stay on right through loadshading
I like way you call insulation (jacket) thanks now I know you need two lives other must be able to energized daylight other one must be able to energized spot light then nautratl must be connect together as youR return
Hi. Out of curiosity. Can you run the live wire on the load out side of the sensor. What i want to do is run a normal on and off switch as well as the sensor together. I'm worried about Live running backwards in the circuit and damaging the sensor as current isn't meant to run into the load out port.
@@ecologicaltime thanks I got 3 10w floodlights I want to hook up. Think if I use a junction box it would work? Thus only 1 set of cables run to the light sensor. What you think my man.
Hi There, thanks for your good instructions, I just need to know if there is any way to adjust the sensitivity of the photocell my photocell is about your the same type of what you showed on your video, but it activates when it is cloudy and stays on for all day and night, and I need to make it so it can only activate or turn the light on when it is absolutely dark, thanks in advance.
Something is confusing me. You indicate 2 Live wires into the sensor, yet the diagram on the sensor indicates Looping the Load & the Neutral. To my mind, you then only need a Live Line and a neutral into the sensor. Why the confusion of the additional live line into the sensor? In Effect, the sensor breaks the power-in line to the light. The lack of light then causes the sensor to close switching the light on. Does feeding 2 live lines in, not actually cause a possible shorting action? How can I post my circuit diagram, for your advice? Please advise. Angus.
thanks, i think it would still work as its sensitive so light will still penetrate the snow on top and the sides could not have snow which could not stick to the sides owing to gravity.
if the light sensor does not activate it will not send a turn on signal to the relay to allow the light to switch on. Cover the unit with a dark cloth / towel, the light should come on after a few minutes.
@@ecologicaltime thank you for your response! Iam new to the DIY world but find some things just not as straight forward! Iam going to take your advise and move forward from there!! Let's see or I will be back to pick at you if that's ok?
I have all my lights run on one line. How can I connect this photocell without having exposed wires because my light switch to turn on all lights is in the house
its always best practice to earth any exposed metal work, so if you have an available earth wire and there is an earth screw on the light, then please earth it. Some lights have no earth point though.
I did this exact writing before watching this video and it was tripping. Watched the video to confirm if I'm right or wrong then I thought let me retry all connections Did that and bam it worked I still dont know exactly why it was tripping all the time maybe I had a neutral connected where it shouldnt.🤔
Please help... Exact same sensor. Ive attached both red wires on each side. Live and load.... am have an extra black wire... The other iv attached the Center nutral port.