How To Install An Outside Light Tips Tricks Hacks - Outdoor Porch Light With PIR Sensor. Wire It Up 

Some good stuff in your video, much appreciated

Very professional, I especially liked the use of the ferrules (not many people use them).

Great informaation very clearly filmed

Good information and demo Mike. Thanks

My biggest problem i find is actually finding an LED sensor light that lasts for more than a year, ive gone through 5 or so different manufacturers and they very often give up around 12 months.

Slightly, that’s an understatemnt

Thanks

This is a brilliant video tutorial! I am hugely impressed with everything! Keep up the amazing work!!

Great

Please Manufacturers! We are up a ladder, x wind, x amount of light, perhaps performing a new wrestling move involving keeping on a ladder and holding two tools, at an angle. Put a light in the PIR housings. Make the PIR Housing act as an illumination for the area. Where the dials are located (which is also lit by same bulb) put an opaque stencil with the dial names - clear universal letters. Go on, jump on this.

Hello Sir, Great Video Crisp and Clear Loved it so much , straight away Liked the Video , Subscribed and Saved Video to Favourites :) I am trying some DIY and tried to replace an existing outside wall light with a new PIR sensor outside wall light which takes GU10 bulbs up and down and glows both ways. I watched some videos and did the replacement. I am not sure what I did wrong. I took the picture of old lights wiring and connected exactly the same way for the new light. After finishing when I switch on the Light flickers and goes off. The light does not flow. Even the old light did not glow and it was always off. Not sure what wrong did I do. Any inputs will be very helpful , Thank You !

Iv always put the fused spur inside the house. Lot of customers want to be able to turn the light off at night so this just covers that problem I find

Thanks for the video, very informative. I subscribed part way through. Was there a reason you opted to put thr switch outside and not indoors?

Hi I was wondering I want to do this the same and was wondering if you could get the power from an existing outdoor lamp as want to have both Or does the power has to come from and plug. Thanks Brian

Hi Mike. I have two security lights I’d like to fit on the back of my house. Can I run both security lights through the same FCU? Many thanks.

Great video for novices like me. Just out of interest, why did you swap the 13amp for a 3 amp fuse and could I put the FCU in doors? Thanks

Just done this job only I put the fuse box inside beside the socket

*No cats were harmed in the making of this video*

Great video… only question.. should the cable from socket to FCU not be 2.5mm (instead of 1.5mm)?

Rookie question: what do the ferrules do, and why on only 3 of the wires? Thanks in advance!

I have a similar situation to you. Just purchased a light with a 1 m inbuilt cable. Do you need to use the junction box? Can I not just run the wire straight from the light through the wall and into the plug socket inside using a waterproof grommet on each side of the wall?

07:30 wondering why wall plugs were inserted into mortar? thought brick was always best.

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Thanks for the info, few questions: Is it wrong to use 13a fuse instead of 3a for this purpose ? What mm cable you can use outside light eg 0.75mm, 1mm?

Hi, I thought that this would be just another DIY amateur video but you supprised me. The use of the correct fuse and the IP rating of the FCU was what kept me watching. If you are a DIY'er then you seem to be very competent and know what you are doing. Well done and hats off to you.

After drilling the pilot hole I would have initially opened up the hole from the outside with the 18mm bit for a couple of inches and then drilled from the inside. This would have avoided blowing the brick in my (diy) experience.

you need to put a drain hole in too

Didn't get to see the finale of the light turned on.