How to wire up outdoor lights

[the-norseman]

Hi All,

Looking for some info, I've put up so additional outdoor lights today that I want to wire into an existing outdoor light , presumed it would be as easy as just connection them all up but its not working.

The existing outdoor lamp is a LAP outdoor light from Screwfix that has a PIR on it, it has a cable that comes to it from behind that has the usual 3 (brown, yellow/green, blue) cables that go into a connector box. Simple, works as expected. PIR triggers and the light comes on.

So what I've done is added a new wire to the existing wire that comes out of the wall to the light and wired that into the back of the light as well (as below) that wire then goes off to a 3 way splitter box now.



From the splitter box there is a cable that goes each way, one way to lights 2 and 3 and the other way to lights 4 and 5, between each light there is a connecting cable so lights 2 and 4 have 2 lots of wiring into them.



What I want to achieve is when the PIR triggers all the lights come on, at the moment none of them are working now!!

So did I need to wire the splitter wire into the light side of the connector rather than the wall power side? or do I need to do something completely different?

[finlo]

From what you've done the extra lights should be on permanently as the inbuilt PIR has no control over the incoming L and N connection.

Also if you could somehow connect it to the existing PIR it likely isn't up to powering the additional lights.

[JoshSm]

Don't know what you've done to make none of it work, but you can't use the internal PIR like that.

If you want it switched by a PIR it needs to be wired through a PIR that is inline and working as a switch.

What you have there would be just permanently on, if working as drawn.

[Panamax]

finlo said:

From what you've done the extra lights should be on permanently.

This. So just buy a stand-alone PIR and stick it in your new cable run before any of the new lights.

[geeks]

Panamax said:

This. So just buy a stand-alone PIR and stick it in your new cable run before any of the new lights.

This

[the-norseman]

So I got them working, turns out one of the wires had somehow come out when tryin to squash all the cabling behind the PIR light to fix it back up.


But like you have all said, the new ones are on permanent.