On Oct 8, 1:47*pm, Artful Dodger wrote:
I had a very good handyman replace the two bulbs in my outside
electric eye fixture. *The
bulbs work, but they do not "obey" the sensor. *Handyman covered the
eye properly to test, but the bulbs did not go out. *He cleaned up
around the sensor. Still no luck.

Backstory: *This light was installed quite a while ago. * It worked
fine (on at night, off at dawn) for years. *Then it began to act up.
The lights barely lit up. *Just a very faint, dim *glow. * BUT the
sensor was working!

So why, with fresh new bulbs properly installed, does the sensor not
work?

Any advice appreciated.


you need a relay-based sensor for flourescent, a resistive sensor is
only for incandescent.