Any exterior lighting (for home) experts on here?

[adamlstr]

Help please.

I have 5 exterior lights around my house that are set to a timer, and have a separate switch also.
I want to get this kind of light:

Wiring them up, not an issue.
But, I'd like the lights to adhere to the timer, but once the timer is switched to 'off' at ~2130 I want the PIR to kick in, and act as security lights. Is this sort of logic built into exterior lights these days?

TIA !

 

[green]

It depends if the cable feeding your original lights. Is it a 3 core cable ? as you will need a switched live (timer) permanent live (pir) neutral and Earth ? If not you can't make a 2 core cable do 2 jobs (switches) as lights need a neutral and if your getting metal fittings they must have an earth. Hope that helps.

 

[adamlstr]

Hope that helps.

A great deal, thanks. :up:

Hadn't occured to me what core the cable is. I'll have a look tonight.

 

[KrisRS182]

I wanted to do a similar thing but in the end we opted for up & down lights on a timer and a led flood light on its own sensor for security lighting. Its discreet and lights up far better than the spots lights do