#Dusk to dawn sensor install#
#Dusk to dawn sensor series#

Remember a little taser uses just a a little 9volt battery but that's a discussion for another time on volts amps transformers and capacitation). ⁰)Turn the circuts power off at the breaker so there's no power to the circut you're going to work on.not just turn the switch off thinking it's then safe (half of that switch even when turned off carries 120 volts at 15-20amps.

Remove lose jewelry and rings tie back longer hair etc.you really set don't want an arc welded wedding ring stuck on your finger and the switch box and still at 800☏ or more. Good practice for DIYers is wear rubber soled shoes or similar insulating shoes and even stand on an insulating mat of rubber or similar if you have it. Preferably our body isn't what connects that electricity to the ground. Hi there, Firstly, safety safety safety! Electricity is always trying to get back to the earth/ground, we're just caging it and controlling it to do work for us before allowing it to go home. It took some digging but I found them on-line from ZING EAR. When that gave the same results, I concluded that ONLY a two-wire controller would work. To make sure it was not a faulty photocell, I had to check with another, new one. When the three-wire photocells fail, they do so in the 'ON' position. But this means that with a three-wire control, in any configuration, electricy is able to flow through the device to the load (the LED lamps).

#Dusk to dawn sensor series#

They appear to be designed with an internal electronic relay to allow the device to handle heavy electrical loads, whereas a two-wire photocell in series easily handles current for a couple of low amp LED lamps. I've tried all configurations, but I have to face the fact that the 3-wire photocells require a parallel circuit with a hot and a return. It wore out recently and the only replacements available were 3-wire. I installed a two-wire photocell controller about 20 years ago. It is impractical to try and run a return line.

The posts are about 140 feet from each other and the wall switch is remote from both. So that post light is in series with the other, like old fashinoned Christmas tree lights used to be.

#Dusk to dawn sensor install#

No ground, no return just two white wires to one where I wanted to install a photocell controller.