Hi, I have one light outside a door connect to the main switch inside, off from the light can I install motion sensor to activate more lights that I want to put up outside my home if yes what the easy way diagram to do it all advise appreciate
outdoor lights
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Depends on how the existing light is wired.
It may well have no permanent live, as it's quite common for the lighting circuit not to be extended to outside lights, and to have switched live and neutral coming from the switch. If that is the case then you won't be able to do what you want unless you leave the existing light on all the time.
A description and/or photos of how it's wired would be useful.
Also, please, please take a bit of time to learn how lighting circuits are wired and how they work, so that you come to understand what you are doing when you fiddle with them. Genuine understanding is what is needed, not attempting to blindly follow instructions to put-this-wire-in-that-hole without actually knowing why.
It may well have no permanent live, as it's quite common for the lighting circuit not to be extended to outside lights, and to have switched live and neutral coming from the switch. If that is the case then you won't be able to do what you want unless you leave the existing light on all the time.
A description and/or photos of how it's wired would be useful.
Also, please, please take a bit of time to learn how lighting circuits are wired and how they work, so that you come to understand what you are doing when you fiddle with them. Genuine understanding is what is needed, not attempting to blindly follow instructions to put-this-wire-in-that-hole without actually knowing why.
- http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=electrical+circuits+(basics+OR+101)
- http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=uk+house+wiring+(basics+OR+101)
- http://web.archive.org/web/20080213151445/http://www.kevinboone.com/domesticinstallations.html
- [wiki]Electrics%3ALighting[/wiki]
- [wiki]Electrics%3Abooks[/wiki]
- [wiki]Electrics%3Aindex[/wiki]
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