So I have a junction box on the gable above my double garage door. I have a dual floodlight up there, with a motion detector. Problem is, it doesn't last. Any recommendations for a really durable floodlight/electric eye/motion detector setup that will fit up with a 4x4 jbox?
The c**p at Home Despot and Lowes, Lower, Lowest aren't cutting it.
Thanks.
It is "tempting' to just make the whole problem into an easy fully-integrated Edison-base throw-way:
Element Classic PAR38 Motion Sensor – Sengled USA
However .. "BTDTGTTS" and more than once, already. All prior such excursions have ended in Unobtanium replacements, and net spend of MORE money, not LESS, PLUS the go-fetch and messing about time, so..
Skip the next installment of the endless f***ing around and sever the two functions while you have to mess with it at all.
Put a commercial-grade, weatherproof, day/night and/or motion-detector rig - NO LIGHTS - into its OWN Bell-box, strategically placed. This is security-industry stuff, not just lighting per-se (sometimes one wants IR or cameras, AND/NOT visible illumination), so relay(s) may be required.
Put the more vulnerable heat, power, ephemeral, moisture, corrosion, bugs, material crapouting, AKA "bad-news magnets" in separate mount(s).
Run wiring from controller to fixed mounts.
Optionally add a weatherproof outlet for temporary "task lighting" useful off the same controller.
Initial cost will be higher, but yer good by the first-fail of the "ephemeral grade" stuff, and progressively better-off thereafter.
Around 30 years worth?
The "main" one I am replacing/relocating/expanding was here when I bought a 1970's home in 1990, so I don't really know.
The Lowes/HD crapola and/or Heath-Zenith t'other two sides of the place has averaged anywhere from 5 months to ten years, typically 4 to 6 years.
I hadn't actually MINDED that. It was cheap enough.
I'm just getting too old to want to worry about the
next go if I can easily make it "never again in my lifetime" good.
"No G-Damned PLASTIC" is a decent start? The silly s**t ages, crazes, cracks, yellows, some combination or all of the above, even ends up in tiny bits on the ground.
Whom, ever, wudda thunk THAT?