This is Joshua Peterson with Peterson Electric. We are down here in Washington Park in Denver. The customers of ours that we have taken care for a while. Her request was that she needed to have her light that she spent really good money on out there. It is a bungalow look. It is a pretty expensive light. She wanted to see if there was a way to have it on a photo-eye. I thought we could possibly go into a screw in base & then the bulb, the problem is this is a compact fluorescent with a G2 4 base. They don’t make that to may knowledge that you clip in your photo-eye & then your bulb, then you put your switch on all the time. The other request is she did not want to replace these switches because they are a push button. You can get them if they go out, but it is hard to get a plate that matches a decor knob. Sometimes people put in a intermatic timer, they will time during the day & night when they want it on & off. She also didn’t want to deal with the programming, so a simple photo-eye is what we did. We just took it down & drilled the fixture & we tightened it up. This is just a post photo-eye, it did not say if it was rated for CFL. I am assuming it is okay because the wattage on here should be fine. We just drilled it right here. We typically use a unit bit. You can get that to sit just right & now we will rewire it like we did. Now the switch will turn on constantly & come in & out & that way at night when she is gone on vacation, it will stay on at night. She won’t have to worry about whether her timer turned on or not. The one thing you need to know about those bulbs though compact fluorescent they love to burn out when they are switched on & off to much. The only down fall to photo-eyes is they turn on & off, on & off, when the suns comes in & out of the clouds. It will shunt a lot of voltage here through these ballasts can eventually burn them out quicker. Other than that, there is no better way to do it. Hope this helps you! Have a good week!
