"tim..." wrote in message
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Hi,

My new abode is in a block of flats that has interior lighting provided by
(60) bulkhead lamps which are mostly on 24-7 (with some controlled by
light sensors so as only on when it is dark)

I have been tasked with looking to see if we can replace some of then with
ones which detect movement so that they can be off for the large parts of
the day when no-one needs them

It seems that the style of lamps that we have now is not currently
available and I suspect there will be resistance to having different style
of lamp along the corridor so it's replace all of them or none of them

Currently the bulls we use are 2 times 7W CFLs and the smallest LED
replacement that can be styled with "Integrated" movement sensor is 10W so
replacing those lamps which will need to remain on 24-7 is going to be
negative (after the cost of installation ahs been taken into account)

So the end result of changing all of the lamps has to result in a very
significant saving from the ones which are going to go on-off overnight,
for this to be worthwhile.

Adding external PIR sensors into the supply is going to be a mess
(especially as the corridor was only recently redecorated and there's no
way that redecorating afterwards can be justified) so is it possible to
obtain just the internal microwave sensors and have them installed inside
the lamps that we currently have - there is plenty of space for this.

Anybody have an experience of this.

The Philips Hue system would work well in that situation because
its all in the bulbs themselves so easy to just use those in the
existing bulkhead lamps. And the movement sensors are
completely independent, not wires to them at all, entirely
internally battery powered and communicate by wifi/zigbee.

BUT they arent cheap and so you are unlikely to save enough
power to pay for them.

Makes more sense to use LED bulkhead lights and leave
them on all the time IMO.