Maclean Energy MCE32 800W Auto Switch Box w PIR Motion Detector Sensor Security Light

I wanted the lights in my garage to automatically come on when I walked into the garage rather than having to pull a 2-way pull cord walking in and the same pull cord walking out.I bought this PIR expecting that I could just swap over one of the 2-way pull cords for the PIR, but it wasn’t that easy as the PIR needed a Neutral connection and my 2-way cord switch only had twin and earth 3 core wiring, which ended up being an earth, a live and a live switch (neutral with brown sleeve).I spent ages trying to see how to rewire the garage switches to include a neutral connection and then stumbled upon a solution that worked for me.I ended up by not touching the existing 2-way pull cords but instead wired the PIR into a junction box in my garage lighting circuit that contained a live (to connect with the brown wire from the PIR), a neutral (to connect with the blue wire from the PIR) and a switched live (which is connected to the red wire from the PIR).So now when I open the garage side door and wait 1 second before entering the garage, the PIR senor detects me and switches my lights on automatically. I then do what I need to do in the garage and leave the garage without needing to pull any switches. 30 seconds later the lights automatically switch off.Works a treat and I am so very pleased with the result.Please note that I am most definitely not an electrician but very much an amateur DIY’er and if you have any doubts at all then get a qualified electrician to install your PIR.

I bought this a couple of months ago to repair an outside light that had a faulty PIR sensor. The sensor head on this product had the same dimensions as the original although the electronics module was slightly larger but there was enough space in the light housing for it to fit. Setting up the switches on the module was easy enough once I'd made sense of the instruction leaflet provided. (Switches are used to set the 'on time' of the lamp, the sensitivity to movement and whether it comes on any time or only after dark.) My outside light now works as well as it ever did.Note that the front of the sensor head is reasonably weatherproof but the back of the sensor head and the electronics module are not and must be protected by a suitable enclosure if used outside.I can't comment on the long term reliability as I've only been using it for two months, but so far, so good.

Bought as a replacement for a Velleman Mini PIR415 that was acting up.Firstly the product supplied (by Amazon EU) was not branded Maclean, it was a generic item, of DPRC origin (as they all are) but imported and branded via Polish company GTV (gtv.com.pl) - a CZUJNIK RUCHU CR-7.Whilst functionally and visually similar to the Velleman, dimensionally the sensor is slightly smaller and the relay slightly larger - for me this presented two problems, firstly the hole drilled for the sensor was now slightly oversize, and secondly the space available in the back-box was too small to accomodate the wiring - obviously solvable but a bit of extra work.In terms of function it works adequately; the relay is noticeably noisier in operation than the Velleman product, and the timer not as accurate. Because of the noise I chose not to install it in a bedroom to control wardrobe lights and fitted a replacement Velleman product - it was a little more expensive but to me seemed a better product. This one is now happily (if a little noisily) switching the cat's water fountain on and off for them!

Got this setup but no thanks to the manualI'm no expert so it needs to indicate that the red cable is the live(L) switched feed to your loadAfter some head scratching it was obvious

A great tiny PIR sensor. I spent hours searching for a small sensor to use in a porch ceiling and couldn’t find one. They were all large and ugly. This is a tiny sensor about 15mm diameter and hardly visible. The box is a doddle to wire up and the dip swiches let you control whether the PIR operates daytime/nighttime, high/low sensitivity, and various on timings. The sensor cable in quite short (about 8cm), but I extended it to 4M using cat-5 multi-core wire. VERY HAPPY with this little gem of a PIR!

I've bought and installed 4 of these so far. The oldest are 5 years old, and get daily use. All have been utterly reliable and behave exactly as you'd hope indoors. No false triggers and very flexible for timing.Outdoors (just the sensor, the box isn't waterproof) is more difficult, foliage and wind can trigger them even when set to low sensitivity, but that's a usual limitation with IR.

This compact module worked exactly as I had hoped. It is fairly sophisticated in that you can choose to have the motion sensor switching power at all light levels, or only when ambient light is low, eg at night. I chose to have it only operating at night and it works well. Having a PIR sensor that is separate from the control unit is also good, as it makes it easier to locate unobtrusively.

I purchased this device long ago, and it still works perfectly.