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Thankyou very much for your help. Il order a 12 volt power supply.

Alarm box:

Hi. Sorry for not getting back to you all until now. I appreciate your advice. This is the alarm box. I just need the LEDs to flash. I see there are terminals for battery. I was wondering if I could go into that or is that all 12 volts too? Thankyou.

Sorry I have not explained myself very well. I picked up a 6 volt 2 amp power adapter (ac to dc) so assume that is fine to use? The alarm box is an ADT bell box. It has a siren and all the bits in it but I just need it to flash the LEDS as it is not connected to anything else. Thankyou.

It is just the LED’s. From what I saw they were fed by a 6 volt battery so I thought instead of changing a battery to wire it up to a 6 volt AC adapter instead.

Hi, I’ve got a bell box without a control panel and just want to wire it up so the LEDs flash. I have a 6 volt power AC adapter power supply and will connect it to the bell box. What wire would you recommend for going from the power supply up to the box? Thankyou.

If there was never Internet at the house then unlikely to be RJ45 ports, unless the house was refurbished and they put RJ45 ports in. You would however find a patch panel somewhere where all these RJ45 ports go back to, which would then have a switch and connect back to the router.

I'd much rather park slightly further away than faff around trying to get into a space between other cars. Plus then I'm less likely to get someone banging their car door in to mine.

This is all down to many gadgets or unbranded smart gadgets that often come from China. They will have rarely updated or old firmware which means they could have holes and be exploited. I recommend that if you have any gadgets that might not be 100% up to date or able to get the latest security...

Thankyou for helping me make sense of this. I will give it a go later this week.

Thankyou for your reply. There is currently a switch which served an old porch light. That light is no longer there and the mains I refer to is coming from the switch. So if I get this right, my mains cable (from the switch) can go into the PIR's Live and Neutral. Then I just need the Neutral...

Hi everyone, So I've ordered a junction box to link up my two outside lights I've purchased. See photo attached. Now I've also bought a PIR sensor. What is the best way to wire it all up with the minimum of cables having to be routed everywhere. Ideally I'd like to go from my Mains into the...

Thankyou. That's great. I will pick one of those up.

Thankyou for your reply. The Switch location is further away so didnt want two cables running back to the switch. My plan was one cable from mains in to switch then out from switch to a central location junction box and then to the two lights. Wondered what junction box thing I'd need.