DIYbanter - View Single Post - Dusk to Dawn Photocell LED Bulbs--Anyone see them for sale anywhere?

SMS

On 12/21/2015 8:32 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 17:17:58 -0800, sms
wrote:

On 12/21/2015 1:49 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 04:40:53 -0800, sms
wrote:

What is wrong with the CFL, may I ask? Is it a matter of looks? According
to the link it will last longer than an LED. LEDs claim 25 years, but that
is based on three hours of use per day. A dusk-to-dawn light will average
12 per day, so an LED will only last 6.25 years. And will be getting dimmer
as the years progress. That CFL one claims seven years.

Yes, it's looks.

A pancake style LED without the photocell would also work since then a
separate photocell socket would not lower the bulb too far, i.e.

I dont understand this thread, (but have not read all of it).

Yes, you do not understand the thread.

Anyhow, you can buy a photocell that attches to any electrical box. Just
screw it into any hole on the box, and wire it as the instructions tell
you. Problem solved!

There is no electrical box. Well there is, it is recessed into the
ceiling of a porch. The vertical height is only 7 feet so the fixture
needs to be pretty low profile.

In the past, I bought a fluorescent fixture and drilled a hole in it for
a photocell. But I went through two of them and they don't last, plus
they don't make them anymore.

I need a low-profile, outdoor, fixture, with a photocell, or at least
one where there is somewhere to drill a hole to mount a photocell, and
that uses E26 base bulbs. No motion detector.

Actually I may just buy an indoor LED fixture at Costco and modify it
with a photocell. The location for the fixture is outdoors, but it never
gets wet.

Someone else suggested using a timer, which would also work okay, though
I'd have to reprogram it a few times per year.

Of you can do some wiring, run some wiring outdoors, install a box
outside, and put a photocell there. The photocell is like a switch, so
it would be going from the source (Hot) back to the light.

I did this exact thing on my barn. I want lights on at night for my
animals, but not during the day. A photocell did not work INSIDE the
barn for obvious reasons. I installed to to an outdoor box on the
exterior of the building.

Yeah, if I used a 3 foot drill bit, which I do have, I could probably
drill a hole back to the light's wiring and place a photo cell
appropriately. But I'd be more likely to modify a light fixture with a
photocell, as I did in the past.