Installing a PIR sensor to an outside light

Various ways to wire a PIR sensor for an outside light, so the light can be off, on a sensor, or permanently on.

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  • @adhdpersons
    @adhdpersons8 ай бұрын

    Great video! Tried for ages to find someone who can explain this simply. Absolutely perfect explanation!! Thank you!😊

  • @merciasafetyservices6992
    @merciasafetyservices699211 ай бұрын

    Fantastic video - very informative and takes a complex subject and makes it easy for the layperson to understand- thank you for posting this video 👍

  • @JPElectric

    @JPElectric

    11 ай бұрын

    Thank you for watching 🙂

  • @freezefoot
    @freezefoot Жыл бұрын

    Really helpful. Like the mix of graphics and real life photos. Thank you.

  • @JPElectric

    @JPElectric

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching , I do appreciate you coming back to watch my videos, and helpful comments

  • @Fra123
    @Fra123 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for this video, definitely the best so far, a very clear explanation

  • @JPElectric

    @JPElectric

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Francesco, kind of you to say.

  • @owlman1100
    @owlman11008 ай бұрын

    Excellent video and nice and easy to follow and understand

  • @JPElectric

    @JPElectric

    8 ай бұрын

    Thank you owlman1100

  • @no_short_circuit
    @no_short_circuit Жыл бұрын

    Thanks again for a comprehensive explanation of PIR with "always on" function. Got a little confused as from the beginning of the video L1 is on the right but from 0.48 - 1.23 L1 is on the left. Not a problem though.

  • @freezefoot

    @freezefoot

    Жыл бұрын

    That threw me as well....JP keeping us on our toes😉

  • @JPElectric

    @JPElectric

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the comment, and good point. Yes , I mucked up a bit there. I did want to make a point about how the L1 and L2 can the other way round physically on the switch , or labelled 1,2,3. So it useful to confirm how the switch actually does operate. But forgot to mention it. I was also going to mention that the switching would also be flipped around if wired like that, so switch one would actually be switch two when screwed on the backbox, if you know what I mean 🙂

  • @jerrybalogun5085

    @jerrybalogun5085

    Жыл бұрын

    Ur the best bro

  • @suilfisean
    @suilfisean6 ай бұрын

    Subbed - excellently and simply explained!

  • @JPElectric

    @JPElectric

    6 ай бұрын

    Thankyou, suilfisean, really appreciate it.

  • @thefootballsay5710
    @thefootballsay57108 ай бұрын

    Hi there great video , if I’m taking the feed coming into the light switch for a new pir light installation from an existing switch , are the connections brown common , neutral in a connector block

  • @Andy-F77
    @Andy-F776 ай бұрын

    Great video. Where in the circuit would you add a photocell so the PIRs only activate when it’s dark?

  • @JPElectric

    @JPElectric

    6 ай бұрын

    Hi Andy, Most PIRs sense light levels, so you do not need a photocell. You will see a small dial with a sun and mood symbol. You turn the dial to moon, so the light will only come on when it gets dark

  • @chrisbluck7276
    @chrisbluck727611 ай бұрын

    A very good and informative video, thank you. I am trying to wire up some spike lights and want to use a stand alone sensor, would I need to have the switch? Or can I run it any other way? Thank you for the video though.

  • @JPElectric

    @JPElectric

    11 ай бұрын

    Thanks for watching. You don't need a switch for it to work , but it is useful to have the functionality of being able to switch something off or on The PIR is a switch, and you could run a permanent supply to that, which would control the lights

  • @davidpatterson1574
    @davidpatterson1574 Жыл бұрын

    Good informative video

  • @Danny-es6ue
    @Danny-es6ue10 ай бұрын

    Excellent video. Do you know if you can connect two or more sensors together to turn on the same light? Would be great to see illustration of that if it can be done.

  • @JPElectric

    @JPElectric

    10 ай бұрын

    Hi Danny, yes its possible. Run a permanent live, neutral, and switch live (and CPC) to the second PIR from the first. The light will respond to either switch live

  • @Danny-es6ue

    @Danny-es6ue

    10 ай бұрын

    Thank you

  • @ef7480
    @ef748010 ай бұрын

    Great stuff..

  • @JPElectric

    @JPElectric

    9 ай бұрын

    Thanks very much ef7486

  • @ljhelectrical1291
    @ljhelectrical1291 Жыл бұрын

    Good video!

  • @JPElectric

    @JPElectric

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks very much LJH Electrical appreciate it.

  • @jerrybalogun5085
    @jerrybalogun5085 Жыл бұрын

    Ur the best bro

  • @JPElectric

    @JPElectric

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching jerry

  • @andrewforsyth4799
    @andrewforsyth4799 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks again goo work

  • @JPElectric

    @JPElectric

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Andrew really appreciate you watching and commenting.

  • @samanadam2442
    @samanadam2442 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot ❤

  • @JPElectric

    @JPElectric

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Saman

  • @jerrybalogun5085

    @jerrybalogun5085

    Жыл бұрын

    The guy is good