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Recently installed and outside light. Feed comes from the lighting circuit in the room (L&N looped to switches) so added a further switch to isolate, feed then goes up into the loft, pops out to a photocell mounted on the gable, then back in the loft and out to the light. Installed, works fine.
Decided I didn't need the light burning away all night so thought it would be an idea to add a timeswitch.
Positioned before the photocell and set to turn on well before dark at 1pm. Switches off at 12pm. This means the photocell turns on as soon as its dark, then off at 11pm when everyones tucked up.
Added the timeswitch and it no worky.
Tested it insitu and there was no feed to the photocell when the clock is switched on. Took the timeswitch off and tested it on the bench - worked fine. Wired it back up and it doesn't work again.
Is there something that photocells don't like about time switches?
This is the time switch:
Decided I didn't need the light burning away all night so thought it would be an idea to add a timeswitch.
Positioned before the photocell and set to turn on well before dark at 1pm. Switches off at 12pm. This means the photocell turns on as soon as its dark, then off at 11pm when everyones tucked up.
Added the timeswitch and it no worky.
Tested it insitu and there was no feed to the photocell when the clock is switched on. Took the timeswitch off and tested it on the bench - worked fine. Wired it back up and it doesn't work again.
Is there something that photocells don't like about time switches?
This is the time switch: