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We are trying to find a workable way to have our outside lights on automatic.

To turn off when it gets dark and on when it gets light. Simple, no?

No.

We bought a switch with a bunch of small slider things that once you set could run and turn the lights on and off at whatever times we wanted.

Again, no.

Disastrous.

It didn't work at all. John thought it was working because I was over riding it every night and morning when I realized it had missed the mark.

The dial went around OK but somehow it had its own idea of when and how the lights would actually function.

So, back to the drawing board.

What we are now trying is a fixture that screws into the bulb place and has its own little electric eye. You put the bulb in this gizmo and it works on off when the light does.

We do not know yet whether it will work or not.

If not, I vote to go back to the old reliable, sometimes, system of a human turning the lights on when it gets dark out and then off again when it gets light.

Not high tech. Lower failure rate than the devices used so far.

Labels: condo, electronics