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Jul 16 2010
First Alert PIR720RN Motion Sensing Light Socket
Posted by in Lamps & Light Fixtures
- Motion sensing light socket
- Automatically turns light on when you enter a room and off when you leave
- Senses movement in all directions
- Ideal for laundry rooms, basements, walk-in closets, and garages
- For use with 25 to100-watt bulbs
Product Description Things can go bump in the dark, but you need not be one of them! The First Alert motion sensing light switches replaced Onn the lights when you enter a room or open a cupboard, and then turns it off after your departure. It combines the security of a well-lit room with the ease of a simple installation. Hands-free motion sensor screws right into a standard, uncovered light version, like a lightbulb. No additional wiring is necessary. The socket senses. . . More>>
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July 17th, 2010 at 1:09 am
I have three of these, approximately 10 years old. Two of them are still working after all this time and not the third, when the lamp was burning off and causing a short circuit. The sensor is a fraction of a second after the eyeball. Too bad, but sometimes things happen. Replacing the failed unit with a spare and everything is still good.
another reviewer that the bandwidth is not enough. I’ve noticed that while the units is a 360-degree circle to respond, they do not respond uniformly in all directions. The device responds well in two opposite directions and between poorly. The manufacturer must know this, because the center terminal is loaded and the spring is fixed electrical contact screws a half turn before the sensor into the socket. You can use the device by releasing about half a turn and still working. I have a couple of days and slowly the sensor socket on the ceiling a few degrees at a time, until most sensative towards faces of my single point of entry. Works much better that way. Some people do like to help.
July 17th, 2010 at 1:29 am
I bought four of these. So far they seem to work well. You can not work with compact fluorescent bulbs, but are fine with incandescent bulbs.
July 17th, 2010 at 3:54 am
This is a great product. I love it! If it is cheaper, I’d buy five or six. I’ve found in my basement, where the lamps are old-fashioned screw-in-to-turn-on pull-type (no chains). Yes, I could rewire the basement, but in the meantime, this is the perfect choice. How motion-sensing devices, this connector is not used with a fluorescent lamp work; package instructions say that only with incandescent lamps. It can not be used in a closed light, but a naked light bulb. But for closets, garages, utility rooms, basements, etc., it’s perfect.
July 17th, 2010 at 5:08 am
See . Amazon. com/review/RQLLBA0WAN9D8 I bought this for a closet under the stairs with a bare light socket and a switch that was difficult to reach. The socket is horizontally on the wall, not the ceiling. If I had it in our top priority, has it not working – or not, or not fire. It has some doing, but I was able to get it with blue tape om schilders employs about two-thirds of the clear gedeelte (ie just a part of the front door is clear). It does not look the best, but I must admit, it’s a lifesaver. But be warned, it is not waterproof. I suspect the problem in our case was very close – because the light hung horizontally, the sensor is not enough room around 360 degrees. However, when I masked all but the section at the front of the sensor, it started to work and has since done well.
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July 17th, 2010 at 7:40 am
I bought this book because I wanted to activate an existing ordinary lamp into a movement to a number of moves, but eventually I could not use what I wanted.
sensor is equipped with ceiling lights to work (according to the instructions, only with light bulbs between 25 and 100W, but see below). It is not fitted to work on the wall lights, even if it is a naked light bulb when the sensor in a vertical position (as if hanging from the ceiling), and it succeeds, the sensor at least 12 cm to the wall to keep. The problem is that once the light is on, the wall heat from the sensor is always reflected and not switching off lights when you leave the room. Also according to the instructions of the sensor does not work when it is in any type of housing, even if it is made of glass or transparent plastic, it will only work with bare light bulbs.
The instructions do not work with fluorescent tubes, the sensor, but I tried anyway with a 23 W incandescent lamp (100 W incandescent equivalent) and the works, except that it takes a while to get the bulb to heat and light to its maximum intensity in that order. The delay is a matter of the fluorescent lamp, not sensor. I noticed that another reviewer a fluorescent bulb flickered and try, but I had no problems, except the delay. It is possible that the other reviewers recommended a 15 W fluorescent lamp (23 W lamp that I used is near the minimum of 25 W). Or maybe it works only with certain brands of fluorescent lamps, (my flash is not printed on the mark, but it is a regular spiral compact).
The sensor does not have a beam of light, so there will always be the light when it detects motion. Therefore it is best for areas with low light or without windows, where, if you are in space, you always have the light, whether it was day or night.