Outside pir light problem

[dave1967]

Just doing what i thought was a simple job for family member.

Replaced a screwfix dunham light with pir with a new maine pir light. Connected it up the same . (black to neutral and red to live and the earth) didn't work. Being now told that the new light needs neutral, live and earth and it  may have live and switched live as its off a switch. Could this be right?

[markc]

Post a pic of your new light connections, may just need live and switched live linking, but then that could be on all the time. Post a pic of your new light connections

 

[dave1967]

Its just a choc block connector l n and earth

[markc]

23 minutes ago, dave1967 said:

Its just a choc block connector l n and earth

In that case you don’t need anything else, I had a similar thing a few years ago and you had to “programme” the light by flicking switch on and off a certain number of times to set how you wanted the light to behave … on dusk till dawn, trigger only etc.

[Spinny]

Presumably the switch will need to be on all the time to power the PIR detector.

 

The other route these days is to separate the light and the detector wireless smart home fashion. I see there is even a Quinetic PIR detector (battery powered) with adjustable lux level too - Quinetic PIR Link

(Not to mention mm wave radar detectors - not sure how well they go outdoors though)