Please see attached diagram, can someone advise on if this TT connection is correct for an outside solar metal enclosure as shown in the diagram? If not what are your recommendations on how you would do this please?
Hi, I need help to find an outdoor wall/step light. It needs to be surface mount but not wider then 70mm as they're to be mounted on the posts. It's to light up some very dark stairs at night for an old lady who's just had a hand rail built after a fall. I can't seem to find any that aren't...
Hi all,
I just moved into a new home that has a post light outside on the lawn that didn’t work with the sensor. I know I have power to it because when I wire the light to the house (bypassing the sensor), the lights stays on continuously.
I’ve changed the bulb, sensor and lantern piece...
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I bought a house and trying to add lamps to the outside. There are cables wires all around my stucco walls and the end of them just lie close to a plug. I was going to add a plug head and simply put them into the plug and also bought 8 6W lamps 110V that will be added. I was...
So client wants new sofit lights from a smart switch…
They don’t want a timer on the wall and dont want them on all night.
So i am looking for recommendations for a relay that can be set to a schedule. Seen a few using Alexa etc but there is nothing like that in the house at the moment.
I'm trying to replace two outside lights. This is something I've done several times but I'm losing my mind on this. I have to lights side by side in parallel. I'll refer to the first spot as #1 (it's on the right) and then #2 (on the left) is where the line ends.
I had an old basic light on #2...
Hi folks,
I’m trying to fit a new outside light. From the wall is blue, brown and earth but the light itself as blue, brown, and red from the lamp and brown and blue from the PIR.
Can you help?
Hi - New DIYer here. Am an engineer and an electrical hobbyist and a general handyman for my own house for all things mechanical and electrical.
Last week a friend called me over to check why the lights on his driveway entry posts were not coming on when he changed the bulbs. Both fixtures...
I've done some basic wiring, but nothing beyond. I know enough to shut off the circuit.
I have no basement or garage, so when I work with a table saw or mitre saw, I have to go outside to a patio area where I run an extension cord to an outlet inside. After 30 years, time to finally add an...
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I’m a DIYer
I am trying to replace an outside PIR lamp which is connected to an internal fused switch in the hall. Removing the cover of the existing lamp there are 4 wires connected to a junction box - the left one is marked * and the others live, neutral and earth (See attached image)...
Hi I have just moved house and inherited a lot of problems......
One of them is this run of 2.5mm along an outside wall past some dustbins & under a doorstep only four brick courses above ground level. It feeds a whole host of double sockets in the garage and is fed by its own 16A MCB in the...
Planning on doing some outside lighting, armoured around the perimeter of garden, glanded into adaptable boxes, then conduit mounted up fence posts finishing in end boxes. Then was planning to fit downward facing lights (up-downs without up) to the face of the conduit end boxes. Was wondering if...
m new here and want to learn. I have a project I want to tackle but if it is above my means I will call an electrician. I have a main disconnect panel on the outside of my house. I want to add from it a sub panel to feed my pool and shed and also an outlet. I did some searching but still not...
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I hope this isn't a stupid question.
I have an existing outside pir security light that the stupid, ahem "electrician" (i.e. me) installed 1M above the boiler outlet so obviously the boiler triggers the pir. I'd like to be able to extend the cable and my question apart from it maybe...
Hi all, just wondering if anyone has a preferred brand of outside LED flood light (30watts with PIR sensor) Replaced a dud Screwfix brand jobby (LAP) like for like a couple of months back and the thing packed up before Christmas. I've been asked to source the replacement this time around and...
I am wanting to put up 2 outside lights either side of my garage. In my garage I have a light switch and a plug socket to work with. What’s the best way of getting power to the outside lights?
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I am looking to fit a new 20W outside light on my garage wall. I know ideally they should be on a circuit of their own, but can I do the following;
Take a spur from a double socket in the garage which is fed from the house and down-amp it using a 5a fcu.
Then run a 1.5mm cable from...
Hello my leccy friends. I need advice on installing front outside lanterns. Basically I already have 2 wall lanterns either side of garage. One by the drain pipe. It looks very nice with philips hue bulbs. Only thing is, it looks off as there is no light on the right side which the porch ends...
Hello. I am located in the Maryland, USA and have no real electrical experience. I just replaced my Nest video door bell with another non-subscription based brand. It went well, except that the original doorbell was tightly fit into a corner by the builder and I discovered that the new doorbell...
Looking for some advice;
I am intending to mount two led downlights on pillars/brick walls either side of the garage door opening. I will drill through the cavity to feed the cable through. There will be a PIR sensor mounted in the middle above the garage door.
Internally i wanted to put the...
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