exterior shop lighting

[Ray Schwalb]

My shop a few hundred feet from my house (on another pc of property.) Now that it is dark all the time I've been thinking that it would be nice to be able to turn on the exterior lights on my way over there. Motion detectors aren't too attractive, as there is a lot of traffic, (pedestrian, animal, vehicular) and I don't want them turning on and off all the time. I did a ridiculous amount of web research and finally happened upon this, which looks like just the ticket. www.controlight.com

Does anyone have any experience with, or input into this problem/solution.

Thanks.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

I have no experience with the product but based on the information at the website, it should work.

If the shop is a metal building or has metal siding it might not work well but other than that, based on the manufacturer's specs, it should work.

[Jerome Stanek]

We did a trade show display for Heath=Zenith that had just what you are looking for.

[David Helm]

I used a different brand (can't remember the name now but it was considerably cheaper). Put one in my wife's studio/office and one for my shop. Wife's lasted about a year and mine never really worked at all. Hopefully the one you linked, at that price, will work well. It is a pain when your building is some distance from your house in these dark days.

[Jim O'Dell]

What about a contactor and one of the cheap remotes? Or one of the 110 volt dust collector remotes like a Lone Ranger??? Should be easy enough to wire in. Jim.

[Don Bullock]

I always hesitate when I see fancy websites and the price is hard to find. There must be a way to do what you want that is cheaper. When we had s similar need my electrician quoted me less than what this system costs installed by him. We ended going with motion lights because they were better for what we wanted.

[Scott T Smith]

My shop a few hundred feet from my house (on another pc of property.) Now that it is dark all the time I've been thinking that it would be nice to be able to turn on the exterior lights on my way over there. Motion detectors aren't too attractive, as there is a lot of traffic, (pedestrian, animal, vehicular) and I don't want them turning on and off all the time. I did a ridiculous amount of web research and finally happened upon this, which looks like just the ticket. www.controlight.com

Does anyone have any experience with, or input into this problem/solution.

Thanks.

What about simply installing a dusk to dawn security light over at the shop? The new 65watt flourescent models work great and use very little electricity (something on the order of 1 cent per hour). I have several of them on my farm and am very pleased with them.

[Todd Crawford]

What about simply installing a dusk to dawn security light over at the shop? The new 65watt flourescent models work great and use very little electricity (something on the order of 1 cent per hour). I have several of them on my farm and am very pleased with them.

Same here on the front of my garage. Work really well. Mine are actually motion & dusk/dawn. It has 3 bulbs. One burns the entire time from dusk to dawn, the other two come on via the motion sensor.

[james glenn]

This might not work for what your setup is, but I have my garage lights and exterior lights at the garage on a third button for the garage door openers. The remote works from about a hundred feet away for me.

Of course I also have motion lights.