Is it possible to wire floodlights to each other
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I have a pir floodlight on the back garden but this only covers half of it is it possible to wire one floodlight to another so they will operate off the same switch which then they will operate on the pir sensors!
Or is it possible to wire floodlights so if the alarm goes off I can have 4/5 floodlights all light the place up?
Reason I ask is many houses in my area have been broken into and our alarm went off at 3.30am this morning for some unknown reason and now the missus is abit scared as when she looked out the window she couldn't see anything at all due to how dark it was!
Got chubb locks on all interior doors with only one point of opening so when we're upstairs a burglar would have a hard time making progress
Or is it possible to wire floodlights so if the alarm goes off I can have 4/5 floodlights all light the place up?
Reason I ask is many houses in my area have been broken into and our alarm went off at 3.30am this morning for some unknown reason and now the missus is abit scared as when she looked out the window she couldn't see anything at all due to how dark it was!
Got chubb locks on all interior doors with only one point of opening so when we're upstairs a burglar would have a hard time making progress
I had an actual punch up ( well minor scuffle ) with a chap who lives 200 yards away from me over his flood lights! Going off and on every time a cat, dog, rodent or person walked within 20 yards of his sensor.
Every time they came on my entire house was illuminated by a billion terawatt light.
Hateful antisocial things, should be banned for domestic use IMO
Every time they came on my entire house was illuminated by a billion terawatt light.
Hateful antisocial things, should be banned for domestic use IMO
digimeistter said:
I had an actual punch up ( well minor scuffle ) with a chap who lives 200 yards away from me over his flood lights! Going off and on every time a cat, dog, rodent or person walked within 20 yards of his sensor.
Every time they came on my entire house was illuminated by a billion terawatt light.
Hateful antisocial things, should be banned for domestic use IMO
But they draw attention and that's the aimEvery time they came on my entire house was illuminated by a billion terawatt light.
Hateful antisocial things, should be banned for domestic use IMO
V8RX7 said:
Yes it's easy but make sure the PIR is capable of switch the load - easy these days with LED floodlights.
I've bought a few of the 10, 20 and 30W off Ebay.
30W is a reasonable compromise IME, 10 and 20 more for lighting up your doorway.
Cheers yeah I'm going to replace with led I want it to be so bright it will blind them so if they look up they don't know if they've been seen or not I've bought a few of the 10, 20 and 30W off Ebay.
30W is a reasonable compromise IME, 10 and 20 more for lighting up your doorway.
I bought some of these last year...
http://www.steinel.de/en/lights-floodlights/floodl...
They are a bit more expensive but really good and turn night into day but you wont be popular if they light up the neighbours houses.
Specific connection terminal in each to act as a trigger to other lights so one senses something, they can all go off.
You either buy all of them with a sensor so when any one of them detects something they all trigger or you buy one sensor light and the rest you buy slaves and only one detects and they all then go off.
I went with the first option
Steve
http://www.steinel.de/en/lights-floodlights/floodl...
They are a bit more expensive but really good and turn night into day but you wont be popular if they light up the neighbours houses.
Specific connection terminal in each to act as a trigger to other lights so one senses something, they can all go off.
You either buy all of them with a sensor so when any one of them detects something they all trigger or you buy one sensor light and the rest you buy slaves and only one detects and they all then go off.
I went with the first option
Steve
39sl said:
I've been looking for nice LED security lights for a while. Are you happy with the 14w versions? I need to light a drive about 12x12m. Do you think one light would be enough or would their 20w be better?For the same reasons as you I've got 30w floodlights front and rear.
I live on an unlit private road and the property is a building site.
Front light wired into smart plug comes on at 1.30am and goes off at 5.30am.
May not be appropriate if living in built up area, but then most people are asleep at those hours.
I live on an unlit private road and the property is a building site.
Front light wired into smart plug comes on at 1.30am and goes off at 5.30am.
May not be appropriate if living in built up area, but then most people are asleep at those hours.
V8RX7 said:
Spudler said:
Front light wired into smart plug comes on at 1.30am and goes off at 5.30am.
Why the strange hours ?I have mine come on at dusk and off at dawn.
Luckily there's no one close by to be effected as the floodlights are seriously bright, and bloody cheap to run.
Spudler said:
V8RX7 said:
Spudler said:
Front light wired into smart plug comes on at 1.30am and goes off at 5.30am.
Why the strange hours ?I have mine come on at dusk and off at dawn.
Luckily there's no one close by to be effected as the floodlights are seriously bright, and bloody cheap to run.
V8RX7 said:
Spudler said:
V8RX7 said:
Spudler said:
Front light wired into smart plug comes on at 1.30am and goes off at 5.30am.
Why the strange hours ?I have mine come on at dusk and off at dawn.
Luckily there's no one close by to be effected as the floodlights are seriously bright, and bloody cheap to run.
I'm building a house around the the house were living in.
alock said:
I've been looking for nice LED security lights for a while. Are you happy with the 14w versions? I need to light a drive about 12x12m. Do you think one light would be enough or would their 20w be better?
I purchased three of the 14w lights and connected them together so it provided sufficient light and impact for me ... me being 30 metres wide x 12m. I reckon the same 14w would be fine for you but as is always the man way, bigger is better...depends upon who you may unpset with such a brighter light
I purchased 2 identical PIR outside lights from B&Q which I fitted with LED bulbs and disassembled and rewired so that each light had live, neutral and the output of the PIR ganged together using some 1mm triple and earth. It worked great as either PIR cause both lights to illuminate.
39sl said:
alock said:
I've been looking for nice LED security lights for a while. Are you happy with the 14w versions? I need to light a drive about 12x12m. Do you think one light would be enough or would their 20w be better?
I purchased three of the 14w lights and connected them together so it provided sufficient light and impact for me ... me being 30 metres wide x 12m. I reckon the same 14w would be fine for you but as is always the man way, bigger is better...depends upon who you may unpset with such a brighter light
I bought one of the 14w LED lights. Light output is about right, i.e. illuminates enough of the drive without blinding anyone on the pavement. The only disappointment is the PIR only reaches about 6-8m. Another couple of meters would have been perfect.
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