Replacing Internal Bathroom cord switch with PIR

[Ray_Novice]

Hi all my first post, hope someone can give me some advice.

I'm looking at replacing the bathroom cord switch with a PIR in my downstairs toilet mainly due to kids leaving lights on all the time.

So I removed the cover for the cord switch and can see 3 wires going into it, Earth, a Red wire going into a port named COM and a black wire with a red cover going into a port named A1.

The PIR i got from Screwfix has three terminals Lin, N & Lout. So Im a little confused on how I should be wiring this up? Is the Red wire to Lout and the black wire with red cover into Lin?

Here are some pics:

Bathroom Cord Swith

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PIR Terminals

Thanks
Ray

 

[deadshort]

Hi, you need a neutral at the pir position. You have L in and L out to the light the pir needs a Neutral to operate, you could pick up the Neutral at the light fitting. If your lighting is wired using the "loop" method you could remove the switch cable at the ceiling rose and replace it with 3 core and earth to you pir positon giving you L SL and neutral within one cable.


Regards,

DS

 

[Taylortwocities]

DS is right. For that particular PIR you'll need to do some additional wiring.

Or take it back and Google
"Ceiling PIR No Neutral"

Here's one http://www.elkay.co.uk/product.asp?id=14&catid=1

 

[Ray_Novice]

Thanks DS & Taylor, Ive just had the ceiling skimmed so Im just going to return this PIR and go for one mentioned above.

Regards
Ray