Ceiling mount photo switch

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sundowner

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Greetings all,

Anyone ever run into a application where you needed to put a photo control
switch in a foyer. I have an odd situation where I need to control lights in a entrance way of a building. I need to do this in the six entrances in the building. I would like (must have) a line voltage photo switch to do this. Any of you guys ever run into this, and if so, who was the manufacturer of the switch you used???

I can't use an occupancy sensor either, that would be way to easy.

Thanks guys

Steve
 
stickboy1375 said:
Wouldn't Installing a photo-cell indoors have some unwanted effects? (like the lights keep going on and off... )
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i would think so too. it seems that the photo cell would not be that effective and consistent. there's no way to put it outside the building?

what about a timer switch? there are programmable lcd decora style switches availble. basically a time clock in a switch box.
 
Time clock, or outdoor photocell. Maybe a combination of both.

How many lights are we talking about? Is your customer one of these people who want to pay their electrician a 1000 bucks to rig something up so that they can save 20 bucks a year keeping a couple lights off? :smile:
 
Now this will cost you a pretty penny or two-- here is the web site
Moduloc Control System

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Series 4000 Remote Transmitter Lens with Fiber Optic Lead Mounted in a PST-07 Air Purged Stainless Steel Transmitter Lens Holder with a LSS-36 Universal Lift/Swivel Mounting Stand

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Series 4000 - Remote Photo-Switch Controller​

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Remote Receiver & Transmitter lens
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edit-- I'm not serious about this as an option. Did a search and thought this was interesting but not for what you want.
 
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Control Light Switching on Entry

Control Light Switching on Entry

If you have access to the circuits to create a contactor box and LV xfmr you can use OPTEX Motion Sensors. They run on low voltage and can be set for day or night activation or all the time. They have adjustable ranges. I did this in a Custom Home that had a Drive Way that was about two blocks long. This drive way had rows of lighting post going up the drive way to the house. The owners wanted the lighting to come on when they entered their drive way as well as adjustable motion sensors in different areas of their home outside to come on when people were close by not the animals. The concept is to activate different lighting circuits and OPTEX has a timer in it so, you can control how long the trip activation is for and then it will disconnect, pop the coil on the contactor and lights out. ADI has these. You can also tie them into a security system that will activate the alarm and the lighting, install some flasher and look out theif.
 
How do you want to control the lights?
Do you want them to come on when it is dark in the entrance?

Sensor Switch has daylight photo controls that are line voltage and low voltage.

http://www.sensorswitch.com/OnlineCatalog.aspx

The CMR-PC may be the one you are looking for.

Hope one of these can help.
 
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Thanks guys I can use the help. To make my long story a bit longer...An "Interior Architechual Decorator" decided that the six entrances of our student center were dark and uninviting. There are between three and six flush can style lights in each of the drop ceiling entrances. These lights are only on when the outside street and sidewalk lights come on in the evening. What I was asked to do was electrically seperate these lights from our central building light controllers, and make them come on based on ambient light in the entrances. The decorator's whole point here is that the lights in the entrances don't come on when it is a cloudy or overcast day. Which makes the presentation of the building "drab and dreary".

And yes something like a thousand bucks an entrance.

Thanks all

Steve
 
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