Anyone here know if one of these exists?.
We have a job to do to control some lights, in essence similar to the PIR operated light in your front garden except that this is Six separate lights around 2 kW in total load.
The lights are in shall we say, very awkward locations and are a PITA to get to. It seems to me that if we under run them a bit then their lifetime before replacement might be extended. There is a fair old bit of cable run in this too so its prolly going to loose a bit anyway;)..
What also seems like a good idea is to soft start them i.e. just fade up the volts applied over a second or so to reduce the switch on surge when cold.
We have a simple infra red light beam detector arrangement that will give a contact closure when triggered which we could interpose another relay to source volts to the larger relay. If that one could accept either a simple contact close or volts applied say 12 to 24 then fine.
If it can also stay switched on for a time period perhaps a minute or so then better still.
TIA.