slimjim Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Got an easy problem that is baffling me on a Friday afternoon. I have a shitty light that I have taken off the front of my house. Wanted to replace it with an up/down light. Easy enough. But I am putting LED's in it and it want it to "always" be on when it is dark. So I have bought a photocell sensor. Problem is I don't know how to wire it together without it going bang! The light has three cables. Brown (Live) Blue (Neutral) Green/Yellow (Earth) The Photocell has three cables Red(LOAD) Blue(NIUT ?) Brown(LINE) The house provides FOUR cables Brown(LIVE?) Black(?) Grey(?) Yellow/Green (EARTH) Guessing the earths can go together OK.... and the blues... But any ideas on the rest people? Pretty embarrassing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vik54 Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 careful incase you go... BOOM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimjim Posted September 30, 2011 Author Share Posted September 30, 2011 I tried this.... (Presuming the black from the house was the one the red form the photo cell red went too) but it didn't work ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimjim Posted September 30, 2011 Author Share Posted September 30, 2011 careful incase you go... BOOM Cheers Vik ... flicked the trip in the fuse box a few times now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MK-Ultra Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 You have a PM mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky370z Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Got an easy problem that is baffling me on a Friday afternoon. I have a shitty light that I have taken off the front of my house. Wanted to replace it with an up/down light. Easy enough. But I am putting LED's in it and it want it to "always" be on when it is dark. So I have bought a photocell sensor. Problem is I don't know how to wire it together without it going bang! The light has three cables. Brown (Live) Blue (Neutral) Green/Yellow (Earth) The Photocell has three cables Red(LOAD) Blue(NIUT ?) Brown(LINE) The house provides FOUR cables Brown(LIVE?) Black(?) Grey(?) Yellow/Green (EARTH) Guessing the earths can go together OK.... and the blues... But any ideas on the rest people? Pretty embarrassing! First you need to determine what cables you have coming out of the house. Sounds like you have Live Neutral Switchline ( that allows you switch the lamp off or into auto. ) Earth Is there a switch in the house somewhere that allows you to turn it off? You can ditch the switch line as its not needed unless you really want to turn it off at night for some reason. Put that in a block and tape it up. Find out what the live and neutral are. Some sparkys have different methods but i always use black as the neutral on a four core. And grey on the switchline. However this should have sleaving to identify it. Test if you have 240 between brown and black. If you do happy days they wire it up as that chap said in the vid. Job done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimjim Posted October 1, 2011 Author Share Posted October 1, 2011 Thanks to everyone for offers of help, and to Sparky350z for the typed answer! turnedout that my main issue was READ THE FKING MANUAL! Basically, the first couple of times I wired it up, I has actually done it RIGHT. But I presumed it was wrong because the light came on when I tured the power on, with or without the dusk/dawn senson being dark. turns out my sensor takes 30-120 seonds to realise if it it day or night! I just had to be more patient and wait for 2 mins after I had turned on the power! guess that is the problem with working on electrics at 3 en a Friday afternoon!!! All working great now. Just need some less bright LEDS for it ats the ones I had on in it last night were CRAZY bright!!!! Again, thanks f or a ll the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vik54 Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 turnedout that my main issue was READ THE FKING MANUAL! Typical man!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimjim Posted October 3, 2011 Author Share Posted October 3, 2011 Typical man!! Guilty... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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