Grabbing power through dusk-to-dawn light

[Megawatt]

Hi everyone - Homeowner with some electrical experience, but not enough to solve this. I am insulating the garage and decided to add three outlets since there is currently only one. The most convenient place to grab power is at an outdoor garage light that is at the end of a circuit. The light is a normal outdoor fixture with that is activated at dusk by a photocell in the light bulb. I confirmed that three new outlets would easily fit into this circuit and wired them up. Of course (as I suspected) they only work at night when the photocell is activated.

Is there a way to wire this so that the dusk-to-dawn lights still work as intended but the outlets are always powered? They are currently all hooked up with 2-wire cable, if that matters.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Morango it sounds like you hooked up the load side of the photocell which is a red wire. You need the Constant live wire which will be black and not from the last fixture. You need to get your power from the security light or the very first light after the security light. Good luck

 

[morango]

Final follow up to my original post. I ended up grabbing power from the existing outlet instead. I avoided it at first because I did not want to cut through plaster and fish wires through the already finished interior wall, but I used a box extender and ran surface wires through metal conduit around the corner to the start of the unfinished wall and ran wire normally through the studs to the three new outlets. Much easier, and I used the existing GFCI to protect the other three outlets.

Thanks for all your help. I return you now to your original programs. ?

 

[Megawatt]

Final follow up to my original post. I ended up grabbing power from the existing outlet instead. I avoided it at first because I did not want to cut through plaster and fish wires through the already finished interior wall, but I used a box extender and ran surface wires through metal conduit around the corner to the start of the unfinished wall and ran wire normally through the studs to the three new outlets. Much easier, and I used the existing GFCI to protect the other three outlets.

Thanks for all your help. I return you now to your original programs. ?

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