dlclarkii
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- Engineer
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Sorry, I can't figure out how to post pics. This is on our rental house and I have no idea what it is!
What is this on the side of my rental house?
- Thread starter dlclarkii
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Sorry, I can't figure out how to post pics. This is on our rental house and I have no idea what it is!
- Location
- Tennessee NEC:2017
- Occupation
- Semi-Retired Electrician
Looks like some kind of light.
Eddie702
Licensed Electrician
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- Western Massachusetts
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- Electrician
Motion sensor??
OldBroadcastTech
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- Western IL
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- Retired Broadcast Technician
Photocell to control lights ?
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- Tennessee NEC:2017
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- Semi-Retired Electrician
What about a light WITH a photo cell?
I can't see how it would be a PC to control another light unless the other light feed was inside the conduit. However, the conduit ends at a junction box and appears to go inside the house. Not in an attic, just inside whatever room that is where the JB is.
I can't see how it would be a PC to control another light unless the other light feed was inside the conduit. However, the conduit ends at a junction box and appears to go inside the house. Not in an attic, just inside whatever room that is where the JB is.
dlclarkii
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- Pennsylvania
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- Engineer
The JC box goes into the wall at a spare bedroom,
There's a retractable awning and I'm guessing it has to do with it but I don't know.
Why is it positioned exactly at the window with a rigid conduit to a JC!
There's a retractable awning and I'm guessing it has to do with it but I don't know.
Why is it positioned exactly at the window with a rigid conduit to a JC!
hillbilly1
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- North Georgia mountains
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- Owner/electrical contractor
Perhaps an analog light sensor for light harvesting EMS? Usually those are on the inside of skylights.
Buck Parrish
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- NC & IN
I done a reverse search and 100 things came up. None of which looked exactly like it.
But it was put in the center of that window for a reason.
But it was put in the center of that window for a reason.
hillbilly1
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- North Georgia mountains
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- Owner/electrical contractor
That’s why I kinda think it’s for light harvesting, maybe they put it on the outside for aesthetics? If it’s a light, I wouldn’t think it would have the correct coverage?
bgard
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- NW Indiana
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- Service manager
Wind/ weather sensor to retract awning in high wind?
hillbilly1
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- North Georgia mountains
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- Owner/electrical contractor
Maybe some sort of speaker or ultrasonic device to keep bugs away at night? Or birds from flying into the window?
hbiss
EC, Westchester, New York NEC: 2014
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- Hawthorne, New York NEC: 2014
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- EC
I can't see how it would have anything to do with the awning else it would be located where the J box is.
-Hal
-Hal
hbiss
EC, Westchester, New York NEC: 2014
- Location
- Hawthorne, New York NEC: 2014
- Occupation
- EC
Why don't you just ask whoever you are renting the house from? You do have a right to know that it isn't a camera looking in the window.
Most of these rental houses are loaded with cameras so the owner or rental agent can see if the nice couple he rented to isn't having a keg party with 50 college kids. Happens all the time.
-Hal
Most of these rental houses are loaded with cameras so the owner or rental agent can see if the nice couple he rented to isn't having a keg party with 50 college kids. Happens all the time.
-Hal
winnie
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- Springfield, MA, USA
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- Electric motor research
That looks like a light fixture with an LED bulb in it.
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winnie
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- Springfield, MA, USA
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- Electric motor research
Agreed. I was able to get my hands on one of those bulbs ( I'd recognized it from a friend's bathroom) and look at it from below.
It is one of those bulbs, in a standard floodlight holder, pointed straight up.
Why is left as an exercise for the reader ...
OldBroadcastTech
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- Western IL
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- Retired Broadcast Technician
Possibly a flag or something similar behind that semi-circular window
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- Chapel Hill, NC
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
How about a camera?
hbiss
EC, Westchester, New York NEC: 2014
- Location
- Hawthorne, New York NEC: 2014
- Occupation
- EC
Bingo! I think you got it Winnie. Certainly is a weird bulb. But why on earth someone went to the trouble of installing it over on the window with GRC is beyond me.
-Hal
-Hal