Outdoor dusk till dawn sensor lights

puddy

I would like to have an outdoor porch light and 3 wall lights in the back garden that all come with 'dusk till dawn' sensors so they turn on when it gets dark and off again in the morning. However I also want to be able to turn the back garden ones off manually if I want to sit in the garden just with candles on in the summer.

Im really struggling to find anything that fits the bill, do they exist???

keystone

jenner wrote: »

I would like to have an outdoor porch light and 3 wall lights in the back garden that all come with 'dusk till dawn' sensors so they turn on when it gets dark and off again in the morning. However I also want to be able to turn the back garden ones off manually if I want to sit in the garden just with candles on in the summer.

Im really struggling to find anything that fits the bill, do they exist???

Just have a switch put in the feed cable.

Cheers

zax47

Separate the sensor and lights - gives you a greater choice of lights. You add an overide switch to disable whichever lights you don't want to come on.

Photo-cell light switches

External Lighting

Errata

Why not get some dusk to dawn bulbs ? Saves a lot of faffing about.

puddy

i saw the sensors and bulbs but didnt really understand how each of them would work, the lights i have seen that i like, i dont know if a full size bulb fits in them, lights have so many different types of bulbs these days i find it really confusing. do you just put the bulb in like normal? it would wear out quick i assume?

and the sensor, how do they work? where do you put them and how does it connect up with the light?

zax47

Outside lights - Part P notifiable - you need an electrician and he will know the answer to all those questions, it's his job!

andy69_2

Baisically when they are wired up you can have them on like an isolator switch so you can just flick it off and then no power will go to the lights, hope this helps!