[OT] Motion Sensing Light

Attach a longer string (or ball chain) to fixture, use eyelets to route to doorway, have convience of pull string by door.

Elijah

------ optionally add weight to end of string (chain) to make it hang better

If it were me, I'd replace it with a standard fixture and run a switch leg down to a wall switch. I got tired of the pull chains in my closets and installed switches in them all.

It you don't want to fish wires, you could use surface mount wiring.

This should get you started...

So, get a low power LED bulb and leave a 5W light burning nearby, just to illuminate the path to the main light switch. The basement here got much safer when I did that.

Dave in SoTex

That wireless switch is pretty danged awesome.

On 02/22/2017 7:43 AM, Dave in SoTex wrote: ...

I couldn't find any way to actually find out what the device itself is/who's the manufacturer...the page had so much ad copy never loaded fully and the link to "purchase list" or whatever it was actually called just self-directed to the same page.

You got the product info; what kind of range does the switch have; only a few feet? I've kept eyes out for long-range switch for barn light from house w/o having to wire it but it's 100 yds or thereabouts away...

Try this:

I wonder if X-10 would work in that application.

Thanks...Illumra site says 50-150 ft (typical). Probably won't make it, either as I'm guessing it's near 2X that max between locations.

IIRC, the X-10 system utilizes the power line itself to carry the signal to the remote (light). Thus, the only impediment to using it in your particular application should be whether or not there is a transformer between where you wire the transmitter (wall switch or whatever) and the load/light.

Some of these things are in a "mesh network", so to double the range just drop another switch or outlett in the middle.

On 02/22/2017 10:49 AM, Unquestionably Confused wrote: ...

Yeah, the house (where would be nice for the remote switch) and barn (light) are fed from the same transformer. Started to say they weren't actually tied, but the feed does come down the pole to the meter and then back up and across the driveway to the barn while on underground to the house. I can't envision just now whether there's a double terminal block in that box or the two feeds have a common point or not--though guess they must, indirectly.

So, that might work; hadn't really thought about that for this purpose...when nights get short what was a trivial walk in the dark when younger seems easier to trip or stumble or whatever any more...I've got to wearing one of the headband LEDs if I remember it but then it ends up at the wrong location all too often... :(

Happened to think of one other thing that MAY guide you on this.

I had a "wireless" intercom (over the household AC lines) between two locations in the house and the shop which was in the detached shop/garage 40' or so away. Same deal: signal traverses the power line and no problem so long as there is no intervening transformer.

This worked fine for me so in your case, it should also.

With the sky-high claims they make for their product and at the price they charge they certainly should be able to provide at least a reply to an email or phone call. Have you tried contacting them?

There's always "The Clapper" :-).

On 02/22/2017 4:36 PM, Unquestionably Confused wrote: ...

I ran that here for quite a long time to get from upstairs to the basement as access otherwise is difficult to come by...worked well until one of the units died..

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No, I just gave up. Life is too short to chase half engineered products around.

I did, however, find this partly due to this thread giving me some ideas:

Thanks all for your thoughts. I am going to give this a whirl next: