security lighting

[dannyv]

Can anyone recommend a make of security floodlight which are reliable and dont play up as the cheap one's ive been using are poor the pir's dont work properly. And do you just take a permanent live to your fittings or do you take a switch live perm and neutral? can anyone help cheers

 

[telectrix]

Timeguard are OK. i take just L/N/E to the fitting, from a FCU., you can manually override by flicking the FCU switch on/off/on.

 

[bugsy]

or install independant luminaire and photocell/PIR

 

[dannyv]

what if your installing more than one fiiting (slave luminare) do you just loop off each fitting with l/n/e?

 

[telectrix]

yes, but first ensure that the PIR will take the extra load, and feed the slave from the S/L on the master unit.

 

[dannyv]

what do mean by switch live on master unit if coming off fused spur

 

[Johnny-G]

There will be a S/L coming out of the master unit and you can use this to operate the slave units.
Steinel units are really good but expensive

 

[slingshot2000]

+1 for Timeguard. I have a Timeguard PIR at my front door, controlling 4 x 50watt GU10s in IP44 downlights. It has adjustments for lux levels (how dark it is before it works) and for the length of time it stays on once, activated. It detects down to the bottom of our drive and is activated by visiting humans, cats, dogs, cars, foxes and occasionally hedehogs (we are one house away from a field). I would say it switches about a dozen times a night and it must be at least six years since I fitted it. I doubt that you would get such reliability from a "Made in PRC" one.

Regards
Jon