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Photocell to control multiple outdoor lights
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<blockquote data-quote="SPECIAL LOCATION" data-source="post: 477890" data-attributes="member: 250"><p>Are these three lights the <strong><u>ONLY</u></strong> lights on the circuit from the fuse box?</p><p></p><p>Or does the same fuse (MCB) supply other lights in the property as well??</p><p></p><p>IF they are the only lights, AND you can get wiring from your proposed photocell back to the fuse box... (3core+Earth)</p><p></p><p>then it should be relatively straight forward to bypass the whole circuit supply so it is only live after dark..</p><p></p><p>But if not, you are going to have to find all of the junctions where the three lights branch off the circuit supplying any other lights elsewhere..</p><p></p><p>At the end of the day, Everything is do-able....</p><p></p><p>But it may be cost, disruption and time prohibitive trying to trace wiring,</p><p></p><p>compared with just fit 3x photocells.</p><p></p><p>The advantage of individual cells of course is if one fails you still have two lights working, compared with no lights if they are all controlled by a single cell.</p><p></p><p> Guinness</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SPECIAL LOCATION, post: 477890, member: 250"] Are these three lights the [B][U]ONLY[/U][/B] lights on the circuit from the fuse box? Or does the same fuse (MCB) supply other lights in the property as well?? IF they are the only lights, AND you can get wiring from your proposed photocell back to the fuse box... (3core+Earth) then it should be relatively straight forward to bypass the whole circuit supply so it is only live after dark.. But if not, you are going to have to find all of the junctions where the three lights branch off the circuit supplying any other lights elsewhere.. At the end of the day, Everything is do-able.... But it may be cost, disruption and time prohibitive trying to trace wiring, compared with just fit 3x photocells. The advantage of individual cells of course is if one fails you still have two lights working, compared with no lights if they are all controlled by a single cell. Guinness [/QUOTE]
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