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Fortunately I wasn’t at any risk during the whole thing, but it definitely wound me up how fucking lazy the bloke must have been. At minimum he would have needed to switch off the circuit at the board, so it’s not like he couldn’t see how thoroughly it was all documented and labelled.
Lesson learned anyway.
Today’s grief has been with combination PIR/daylight sensors. After adjusting for dusk, the motion sensor no longer works at all.
3 dials - time, sensitivity, lux.
From reading the instructions, the light should operate on the motion sensor until it gets to the light level selected for dusk, at which point it becomes a permanent floodlight, however, the client only wants it to be a motion activated. So I moved the lux dial to the lowest setting (ie flood light activating in pitch black/never), but now it’s not working on motion sensor at all.
I’ve left it until tomorrow (was still there at 9pm, bit of a disastrous day), as last time I had daylight sensor issues, it just needed a few hours being left alone to settle down.
Anyone got any experience with these things? Will ring the manufacturer/wholesaler tomorrow, but first hand experience is always more useful!