"David Nebenzahl" wrote
On 8/15/2008 11:40 AM cshenk spake thus:

David, we have one we unplugged and were about to replace but maybe it's
just the sensor? It no longer turns off like it should. Rather than pay
for repair, we were going to replace but if the sensor is that easy, can
you describe how such might be replaced?

Again, assuming it's like the standard ones you get at Home Despot and

It is. Simple thing there.

elsewhere, where the sensor hangs down under the fixture with the two
lampholders, it's super-simple: open up the fixture to expose the wiring,
disconnect the wires going to the sensor (they're a certain color, I
*think* red), then pull off the sensor. Stick the new sensor in,
reconnect, close it up, that's it.

Ok, sounds easy enough. I will go shopping tomorrow and see if I can locate
a new sensor.

I already have the new unit but I also have a spot I'd rather use it at.
I'd like to put one in the screened porch so when making a short traipse
out with the dog, it comes on til I cross to where the regular switches
are.

Since the sensors are available separately from the lights, one thing
people often don't realize is that you don't have to buy the whole thing
in one unit. I have one customer who had me put in a nice outdoor light

I can then put the other unit in the back porch (grin). Will really freak
out anyone who shouldnt be there but mostly it will let me walk the dog at
night easier when he has to go pee. *nothing* should move back there but us
as it's a framed in screened room.