I need it for indoors where there is flourescent lights. Bought another brand and it activated with lights on. Will this happen with this one?
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No, it works in darkness when there is motion, even limited motion; you'll love it!
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Im sorry... No suggestions... That sadly is exactly what happened with me. I just threw it away after about a week of it not turning on showing any motion with the lights. Maybe flip the black switch on the bottom and it may work.
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It sounds like you may have received a defective bulb. The one I have comes on at full power and does not change intensity or flash in any way.
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It clicks both when it activates & when it deactivates--that may annoy you. It doesn't bother me, because my wall switches don't work so motion sensors turn on most of my interior lights. I also use the replacement sensors for outdoor flood lights in some rooms of my house--those are not as "pretty" (maybe Leviton qualifies for "pretty"), have more limited no-motion-shut-off options and will require some work to mount, BUT they are silent, really work, have a dim option and are really cheap. Similar wiring. See "Heath/Zenith SL-5407 and SL-5316" here at Amazon. It clicks both when it activates & when it deactivates--that may annoy you. It doesn't bother me, because my wall switches don't work so motion sensors turn on most of my interior lights. I also use the replacement sensors for outdoor flood lights in some rooms of my house--those are not as "pretty" (maybe Leviton qualifies for "pretty"), have more limited no-motion-shut-off options and will require some work to mount, BUT they are silent, really work, have a dim option and are really cheap. Similar wiring. See "Heath/Zenith SL-5407 and SL-5316" here at Amazon.
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I have not had any success with CFLs. Originally, I purchased some CFLs from Home Depot, and ended up returning them, since the motion detection lighting did not work with CFLs.
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Are you sure it's the remote? If I remember correctly the lights can be shut off at each light. Maybe the lights are off so the remote appears not to be working. I have mine in a ceiling mounted candle fixture so it is a bit difficult to check the lights out thoroughly...sorry.
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There are settings inside the actual lights; make sure they are activated. (Right behind batteries)
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It will turn on. But keep in mind that when power is cycled to this fixture it comes back on to the fade setting. Which means it cycles through the colors one after another continuously. The only way for the light to return to the last used setting is by turning it off with the remote control, which has a very limited range and does not do well through glass.
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The light comes on ok but the CFL and LED stay one when the timers goes off. Has not worked in any room I've installed it in.
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It works great in mine - here's a tip though.....for some reason my bulb would turn itself off every few hours when it was dark out, perhaps being triggered by some reflection of its own light. I put some pieces of masking tape over the light sensor to make it less sensitive and that fixed it, now it's on all night long but still off during the day.
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I believe you'd have to ask the inventors of motion detectors 'how' these smart little instruments work internally. Here's what I know: when the sensor is set to'on'; in a dark room, any motion (shadow?) in its path, will trigger the light to go on!
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Check out a YouTube video to see correct light sequencing, but it sounds like it's probably broken. I had 2 faulty units before I contacted Eliminator directly and they sent me one that worked properly.
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since this is most effective in a darkened room, if the room is too bright it is not visible or effective from outside the building. I do not have any problem with the lighting level when it turns itself on or off. You may want to try repositioning the one you have so the back of the unit is exposed to the light coming in from a window.
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NO. I initially put in LED lights and discovered that it would not go off. The brightness is adjustable from fully on to dim. I understand that a small current continues to flow in order to keep the sensors in the wall units active. It works with filament bulbs, I believe, because the small current is low enough that the filament does not glow. The LEDs are very sensitive to this small current. I believe that the system could be wired to solve the LED problem if the circuit was redesigned.
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If this is your only light source it may be to dark.I have other lights in the room.
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Julie, I think it could work indoors but would not work when lights are turned off and on.
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I am assuming that even if there is a light it might not alert properly. I originally purchased the item so that I could have contact between the floors of our house. The intercoms did NOT work and I returned them.