Remove PIR (without replacing)

[8031brown]

I have an outside light with a separate Micromark PIR sensor. It is by a backdoor with no other access to the rear of the house. I have no idea why someone thought a PIR sensor would be useful in this instance.

I want to remove the sensor completely without replacing it but wiring diagrams I have seen don't seem to cover this circumstance.

The sensor has just one flat (3-core?) cable connected to it that then disappears into the wall. The light also has one cable again disappearing into the wall. The switch that turns the light on/off is inside (one of a double switch that also turns on/off the kitchen light).

If there is a junction box somewhere, it is inaccessible. Is there something I can do to change this so that the light just works from the switch?

 

[333rocky333]

Post a photo of the connections in the pir,
The other cable ends are likely in the switch box


a lot of the sensors use 3 internal colours
Brown live
Red switch live
Blue neutral
usually its a case of linking out the supply cables that terminate with the Red and Brown internal cables of the pir

 

[8031brown]

Thank you. I will take a photo at the weekend.

 

[EFLImpudence]

 

[Doggit]

I have no idea why someone thought a PIR sensor would be useful in this instance.

So that they could go outside in the dark, and not have to risk leaving the light on afterwards.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

As an alternative to ")%*%#~@ paying attention?

 

[Mottie]

I have no idea why someone thought a PIR sensor would be useful in this instance....

We use ours so that we can be sure the dog has had a **** and a **** before we go to bed at night. Before that, I used to have to stand outside with a torch in all weathers.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

We use ours so that we can be sure the dog has had a **** and a **** before we go to bed at night. Before that, I used to have to stand outside with a torch in all weathers.

Can't dogs do those things in the dark?

 

[Mottie]

Yep, but I like to see it done! No **** and **** before we go to bed means we'll be woken up around 4 in the morning to let her out - if we're lucky. If we're unlucky, it’ll be waiting for us on the kitchen floor when we get up in the morning!

 

[stillp]

How would you like someone with a torch watching you when you have to go?

 

[EFLImpudence]

I only get woken up if I have to go. I don't do it on the kitchen floor.

 

[Echo the husky]

I only get woken up if I have to go. I don't do it on the kitchen floor.

Yes, but you can make your own way out to the garden.

 

[EFLImpudence]

 

[Echo the husky]

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Yep, but I like to see it done!

Takes all sorts, I suppose.

But I really don't see how your predilection stops you from using a switch near the door.