Cooper Lighting Motion Sensor Outdoor Light, Turning Light On

[jaugustine]

Hi,

I'm trying to help a relative who lost the owner's manual for her Cooper Lighting model MS80W outdoor motion sensor flood light. She no longer wants the motion sensor feature, but wants to be able to turn it on and off like a regular light.

Note: She has a power switch in the house for that light.

Unfortunately a visit to Cooper's web site and a Google search did not result in a source for the owner's manual or the information we want.

It seems logical that there must be a way to turn the light on when you want it to stay on without taking the sensor apart and bypassing that circuit.

Do you know a way I can convert that into a regular on/off light by way of the power switch?

Thank You in Advance, John

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[Iowna Uass]

My light will come on and stay on if you momentarily flick the switch off and then back on. However, this will only work during the night. There is a light sensor that that keeps the unit off during the day.

There is also a test mode that works during daylight hours.

[terry]

Yeah my el-cheapo ones work similar. Can't remember the procedure ................ something about turn off for less than five seconds or maybe turn off for more than five seconds, then on again and it comes on steadily. But agree that as adjusted now that may only be after dusk. However since the 'dusk' setting on ours are adjustable it should be possible, as far as I can see, to set the thing to ignore the dusk/ light setting. If it is necessary it's a pretty simple job change disconnect one wire and wire straight through. Provided as always you know, electrically, what one is doing!

[ransley]

All units ive seen the motion part cant be changed unless it has a dusk to dawn option operated by the photocell. If it doesnt come on at night by flicking the switch up and down several times and has no dusk to dawn feature remove the fixture and put in a socket.

[hrhofmann]

Just bypass the sensing circuit and wire the incoming 2 wires to the 2 wires going to the light bulb itself.

[Jay-T]

I just did a Google search for "MS80W" and here's the link to the manual:

To do what you want, set the switch to "Test", then turn the power off for 5 seconds and then back on. That should set it to work like a regular flood light that will just turn on or off with the switch day or night.

Hopefully you'll check back here to see the answer since I generally don't do email replies to Usenet posts.

Good luck.

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[jaugustine]

Hi Jay,

That PDF file I downloaded via the cooperlighting site is for a Regent, not "Cooper Lighting". Perhaps "Regent" is the brand made by "Cooper Lighting".

Even though the model number is the same, there is a difference on the bottom of the sensor. My relative's doesn't have the slide switch. I am sure I wrote down the correct model number, because I double checked.

I will have my relative try the procedure after it is dark, turn off for

5 seconds, then turn it back on.

If that works, I will post an update.

Thanks to you and the others, John

[Jay-T]

You're welcome.

The pdf manual does ay on page 6 that the warranty is through Cooper Lighting and the manual has a Cooper Lighting copyright. So I assume that the Regent light is sold by Cooper Lighting. With the same model number etc., I think it must be the same one.

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[jaugustine]

Hi Jay,

UPDATE:

The procedure works! My relative reported after it was dark, she turned off the power switch for 5 seconds, then turned it back on, and the light stays on.

Thanks again to you and everyone, John

[Jay-T]

Excellent.

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