On Jan 21, 11:29*am, ls02 wrote:
On Jan 21, 9:44*am, "chaniarts" wrote:





RBM wrote:
"ls02" wrote in message
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I want to install recessed lights in roof soffit. Can I use ordinary
indoor RL housing? The housing will essentially be inside the soffit,
not exposed to weather.

I also want to trigger these soffit RLs with dusk to dawn and
possibly motion sensor but I could not find stand alone dusk to dawn
sensor anywhere.

You can use any frame kit rated for damp locations. Both motion
detector heads and photocells are available at places like Homedepot.
I believe the motion detector heads that HD sells have a dusk to dawn
feature on them

HD sells 2 types of dusk-dawn photocells: one is mounted in the cover of a
standard work box, and the other screws into a standard box knockout. i have
one of each in my house, and replaced them with the HD ones in the last few
months.

I assume dusk to dawn or motion sensor including the one inside
outdoor lights does not carry any load itself so several of them can
be wired in parallel and also additional lights can be added down the
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By parallel you mean that you want to install several and have any one
of them trip all of the lights? That would be interesting as you will
be shorting out the power across all of them when one trips. I would
guess that it would work. They probably have a triac controlling the
output. You may confuse them though.

The thing that may or may not complicate things for you is that many
of these get there power from the light. They do not have both a hot
and neutral going directly to the sensor. They are in series with the
light. Sensors that have their own complete circuit would be more
reliable for what it sounds like you want to do.