okay youtube working on my light switch here for the patio lights i need three pairs of wires here
so i've got the 12 volt and ground wire here that's just constant 12 volts and then this
will be my dimmer input which is a pulse width modulated 12 volt signal and then the blue pair
here is for the connection out to the lights so the idea is the switch will let me switch between
constant 12 volts and then the wireless dimmer and then send that out to the lights
but what i need to do is get these wires into this wire loom so i was looking for
an easy way to do this so i've got like a six foot length of wire loom and six six
foot lengths of wire and trying to get them in there is a little bit tricky but i was looking on
youtube and there's apparently tools made that you can buy to insert wires into a wire loom
i could buy them and wait for them to arrive but i was looking on thingiverse somebody
has these in stl format and the idea with this is you've got this sort of bullet shaped end
that goes inside the wire loom and he has all the different sizes this is the 16 millimeter because
this is 5 8 wire loom and then you have this slot here where you can run your wire and the idea is
you pull this down and you can see it leaves the wires inside as you go so anyway i downloaded
that and printed it took about an hour and i've got one of these get them all stuffed in that
hole there and then you get the end of your wire loom and get it started it's a little hard to
get started because you've got to try to keep all the wires out and hold on to the end there
yeah i think this might work a little better i'll use this spring clamp here to hold the wires
from pulling inside here and then that way i can use both hands up here
and just sort of pull this along and that way you can kind of pinch this closed as you go
and you can see it's just shoving the wires right in there
yeah there we go once you get it going and then stretch it out as we go
this is my switch in so i've got to find some terminals that fit my switch yeah so there i think
these terminals will fit on there let's see if that is the right one or not yeah i think that'll
work okay we've got the switch wired up here and you can see with the double pole switch makes the
wiring very clean there's just two wires for each of the three positions and there's no wire nuts or
anything in there unfortunately the box while it fit the switch by the time you get the wires in
there they stick out the back through the magic of 3d printing i took the box and scaled it by
150 and now i've got plenty of room okay youtube got the switch wired up here
this is a three position on off on switch so when i'm in the down position the lights outside here
are connected to my light dimmer which is connected to the z-wave light switch that's
inside the house and that can be controlled through any number of things i've got my
mobile device here and i'll just turn on the patio light right there and the lights light up
turn the patio light off there and the lights turned off but then i also have the option for
instance i'll turn the light on there it updated and with the switch if i don't need those lights
on i can flip the switch to the middle position and those lights out there will never turn on and
if i go back down they're in the auto position and then i can turn this off it's kind of slow
i think they're having some network issues today i just had to reboot the cable modem yeah as soon as
you fire up the camera then all the network starts acting up so they may have gone out again you know
comcast is having some problems locally oh there we go and it finally turned off the
patio light circuit but if things are going wacky like tonight with the internet and not able to
turn it on my z-wave controller crashes i can just go up here and turn it on so this is just direct
connected to my 12-volt battery bank and there's the light yeah boy it's really slow tonight
that's why i have this manual mode on there there we go yeah i think it's actually brighter
yeah it is brighter with uh direct 12 volts i lose a little something going through the light dimmer
and i can go dim if i want it's a great having you know fully automated stuff
but when it doesn't work and it's dark it's nice to have a switch just to turn the light on so
anyway i hope you found that interesting i'll put links to all the
parts i got the lights and the connector kits to get these wired up so i'll put all those
links in the video description if you want to do something like that these are low voltage 12 volt
bulbs they are edison screw in sockets so you do have to be careful that you don't put any of these
bulbs in a 120 volt socket but i like the look of the bulbs that's that's what i really liked
a little bit of decoration anyway i thought i'd show you my updated patio lights and now
i've got the full control over them manual automatic motion control yeah if you have
any questions be sure to post up in the comment section below and as always thanks for watching