Photo cell adjustment

[Stevenfyeager]

After we installed a dusk to dawn light, a business across the street installed a huge high dusk to Dawn light which keeps our light from working now. When I tried to put a little aluminum cover in front of our photocell on our LED wall pack it just blinks. Is there a certain distance that I need to keep my blinder out in front of the photocell? Unfortunately the new light across the street shines directly at our photocell on our wall pack. Thanks

 

[PaulMmn]

Any way to turn your photocell so it's not looking across the street?

 

[Stevenfyeager]

Any way to turn your photocell so it's not looking across the street?

The wall pack has its own photocell right on the face of the light fixture

 

[hillbilly1]

This is your solution.

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[BarryO]

Put the wall pack in series with a photocell in a location where it's not interfered with by the light across the street.

 

[LarryFine]

Put the wall pack in series with a photocell in a location where it's not interfered with by the light across the street.

And bypass the existing one.

 

[qcroanoke]

And bypass the existing one.

Otherwise you wasted your time and money. However, sometimes that's not very easy to do.

 

[ptonsparky]

The neighbors light is bright enough. Put yours on a timer, or shut it off entirely.

 

[BarryO]

Otherwise you wasted your time and money. However, sometimes that's not very easy to do.

If you can't bypass it, there's always just a piece of electrical tape or opaque paint

 

[Stevenfyeager]

Thank you all. This time I stopped by (at dark this time so I could immediately test it) and slid a dark pc of aluminum flashing on top of the light until it shadowed the cell and it came on. Siliconed it on the top of the fixture.