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Hello,
I have an apartment building that I recently had someone do some electrical work on for me. He did fine and the stuff he did passed the electrical inspection with the city. He is nowhere to be found now. Here's the story:
I wanted all the exterior lights to be on a photo cell so the lights would go on at dusk and off at dawn. He installed a Siemens Furnas Definite Purpose Controller; cat number 42CF15AF and a Westek Photocontrol Model SW103CTC photo cell. It was daytime when he installed it, so we pushed the button in the middle of the controller to verify that the lights would work and they did. Everything seemed fine, I paid him and that's that. The following day came along and I was driving home around dusk, I was curious if the lights would already be on from the level of darkness or if I would have to adjust the sensitivity or something. When I got there, the lights weren't on, so, now I needed to find out what the problem was. Here I am. I took photos of both items. Could someone give me an idea of how to wire these things up correctly? I just did work on 5 AFCIs myself on a hot panel, so I'm not inept when it comes to electrical work. This obviously won't be hot when I work on it because there's no need in this case. Here are two images:
P.S. The electrical tape on the end of the photo cell was there for me to test it out...
I have an apartment building that I recently had someone do some electrical work on for me. He did fine and the stuff he did passed the electrical inspection with the city. He is nowhere to be found now. Here's the story:
I wanted all the exterior lights to be on a photo cell so the lights would go on at dusk and off at dawn. He installed a Siemens Furnas Definite Purpose Controller; cat number 42CF15AF and a Westek Photocontrol Model SW103CTC photo cell. It was daytime when he installed it, so we pushed the button in the middle of the controller to verify that the lights would work and they did. Everything seemed fine, I paid him and that's that. The following day came along and I was driving home around dusk, I was curious if the lights would already be on from the level of darkness or if I would have to adjust the sensitivity or something. When I got there, the lights weren't on, so, now I needed to find out what the problem was. Here I am. I took photos of both items. Could someone give me an idea of how to wire these things up correctly? I just did work on 5 AFCIs myself on a hot panel, so I'm not inept when it comes to electrical work. This obviously won't be hot when I work on it because there's no need in this case. Here are two images:


P.S. The electrical tape on the end of the photo cell was there for me to test it out...