Hi Everyone,

Last week I dusted off the tools and went back over to my local Royal British Legion.  They are fed up with soaring electricity costs so asked me to put the toilet lighting on motion detectors.  It was nice little job so I took a few photos for you.

The first thing is SAFETY FIRST! Just because it isn’t school or you’ve been doing this for years you must follow your safe isolation procedure. I have pulled the fuse for the lights and checked for ‘dead’ there.  I am now back at the mains checking the lamp.  By the way I am in the building alone so not locking off the whole mains is not required, I am perfectly safe.

Next job is to connect in the sensors.  Now this pretty easy as the club is wired with ‘Greg’ type ceiling roses.  ”What?”, you say.  This is what I mean….

All the fittings are on socket outlets that fit on conduit boxes.  There is a spare ‘loop’ terminal in these so I don’t even need a connector.  Here is one of the detectors……

When I finished each part I then tested.  One of them didn’t go so well when I came to it, but more about that in another posting!

Bye for now.