Dusk till 11pm timer

[JohnW2]

In terms of the sort of photocells I'm talking about (e.g. the one I pictured) I don't think I've ever seen a one in which one could terminate SWA (even one, let alone two).

They have a 20mm hole in the bottom, im sure someone somewhere has terminated an swa into it.

I'm sure someone has! What I should have written was something like ".. not designed for termination of SWA". What was really in my mind, given what the OP had written, is that there clearly is no way that anyone could even try to terminate 2 x SWA into a thing like that!

Kind Regards, John

 

[JohnW2]

In terms of the sort of photocells I'm talking about (e.g. the one I pictured) I don't think I've ever seen a one in which one could terminate SWA (even one, let alone two).

Fair enough. I only said that I hadn't seen one Anyway, in context, the important point for the OP is that, as has been explained to him, there's no reason why he would need to use SWA for the phototocell.

Kind Regards, John

 

[mfarrow]

They have a 20mm hole in the bottom, im sure someone somewhere has terminated an swa into it.

I have, sort of .

I tried it with a CW gland first but couldn't manage the cores inside properly to wire them in. So I just trimmed the armour and threw the sheath through a standard stuffing gland. The armour is earthed at the other end.

 

[JohnW2]

They have a 20mm hole in the bottom, im sure someone somewhere has terminated an swa into it.

I have, sort of . I tried it with a CW gland first but couldn't manage the cores inside properly to wire them in. So I just trimmed the armour and threw the sheath through a standard stuffing gland. The armour is earthed at the other end.

Fair enough - but I'm not sure I would really count that as 'terminating SWA'!

Kind Regards, John

 

[mfarrow]

Well it was terminated properly before I realised I couldn't get the socket screwed back down so it now just terminates without a terminal

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Ah - socket.

There wouldn't be room. You should have used a male conduit bush & a coupler.


Dunno if you can get BS1363 socket modules for Commando enclosures.

 

[333rocky333]

so it now just terminates without a terminal

EDIT
ooh just clicked in

 

[coopersim]

I'm looking at the same setup and wondered about this:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331280485254?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I'm sure there are reasons, possibly very good ones, why that is much cheaper than Sangamo timers.

You could get a Q551 and just set it to come on earlier than dusk, and put up with the lights coming on a little too soon if the weather is good, or have the timer set like that and put a photocell switch in series with it, after the timer.

 

[DIYTom]

I'm looking at the same setup and wondered about this:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331280485254?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

That looks exactly what I want. But as Sheds says it is worryingly cheap.

BTW Sheds, what does your name mean. Do you mean ban all garden sheds, or do you mean ban B&Q and their ilk?

Sorry not to reply for so long. The email notifications of new posts stopped arriving for some reason.

 

[JohnW2]

BTW Sheds, what does your name mean. Do you mean ban all garden sheds, or do you mean ban B&Q and their ilk?

The latter.

Sorry not to reply for so long. The email notifications of new posts stopped arriving for some reason.

Yes, that happens sporadically, for whatever reason, but usually gets mended (or mends itself) within a day or so at most.

Kind Regards, John