Hopefully someone can tell me if this is possible.
I have a Zenith motion detector porch light-mounted beside the door-that has a "Dual-Brite" feature, in other words it can come on at half power until motion activates it to come on at full power. But the real electricians here probably already know what it does.
My question is:
Can this light be wired to operate a second porch light through the motion detector only while in the dual-brite setting? I want the second (ceiling) light to only come on when motion is detected but not be controlled by the dual-brite feature of the door light. The only way I can get it to operate now is basically to be slaved to the door light. Doing it that way the ceiling light comes on at low power just like the door light does and goes to high power when motion is detected.
The controller has an extra red wire that was terminated from the factory and has a label to use only for "optional" wiring. I thought this was a motion detector "hot" feed but apparently not so. There is another red wire that is factory connected to the black that goes to the lamp socket.
And of course the black from the switch, the whites, and the ground.
Before anyone suggests this, I have already contacted Heath/Zenith and gotten a generic wiring schematic that was no help at all and my second email has not been answered at all.
I have a Zenith motion detector porch light-mounted beside the door-that has a "Dual-Brite" feature, in other words it can come on at half power until motion activates it to come on at full power. But the real electricians here probably already know what it does.
My question is:
Can this light be wired to operate a second porch light through the motion detector only while in the dual-brite setting? I want the second (ceiling) light to only come on when motion is detected but not be controlled by the dual-brite feature of the door light. The only way I can get it to operate now is basically to be slaved to the door light. Doing it that way the ceiling light comes on at low power just like the door light does and goes to high power when motion is detected.
The controller has an extra red wire that was terminated from the factory and has a label to use only for "optional" wiring. I thought this was a motion detector "hot" feed but apparently not so. There is another red wire that is factory connected to the black that goes to the lamp socket.
And of course the black from the switch, the whites, and the ground.
Before anyone suggests this, I have already contacted Heath/Zenith and gotten a generic wiring schematic that was no help at all and my second email has not been answered at all.