okay so out where I live we have lots of bears Fox raccoons everything else that
comes up to my house and checks into my feeders so I have this old light on my
back porch area that I'm gonna swap out for a motion-activated ceramic LED
security light and I thought I would share that with you today and give you
some of my thinking behind why I should put it there this thing's been here for
20 years since I built the house and it's corroded inside that bulb is broken
I'm gonna replace it and I like LEDs because use less power
it's gonna throw a lot of light and I want a motion detector out there because
when a bear or something comes close I want this light to come on and I want to
be able to angle the light I don't want this to shine through my windows I want
it to shine outside at the animal that's coming on even if it's my dog on the
porch here the different modes test mode auto mode auto and it has dusk to dawn
all the way to the right so we can turn on at night turn off in the daytime the
housing is pretty much weather's the weather sealed on its own the details
are on the back there there's a center opening for the screw the screws
provided and we're going to mount that to an existing light fixtures since I'm
pulling off the other one there's a nice weather gasket here the bar is here that
is already set for this unit long center screw that's going to go through that
and hold it in place and we have the ground screw the two side screws and
then that rubber seal that we're gonna put in once the screw is in and the
fixture is mounted on the wall this is what it looks like it's called ceramic
because those white liners there for the LED are made from ceramic material the
rest looks like it's heavy duty plastic and first things first we got to get
this thing out of here turn the light off at the switch and at the breaker
panel before going any farther so then we're going to unscrew the wires here
that are holding that light fixture in and then we're gonna pull the mounting
bar out as well and again make sure the power is off test it first and now we've
got the hot lead and the neutral disconnected and I'm unscrewing the
ground here we're gonna get that off of there they've provided us with a new one
so we're going to use all the hardware that they've given us I could just
unscrew that Center screw and put it the existing bracket but I'm gonna use
what they provided might as well start fresh the housing I'm mounting to is a
weather sealed aluminum housing so that's already good to go it's the right
size and there we go we have the fresh bar in there it has a ground screw which
I'm not going to use I'm gonna hook the ground wire directly to the ground wires
that already exist in that outlet there you have to put that weather seal on
first before you run the wires through and then we're gonna mount it up there
you go and the weather seal is grate it covered
the full circumference it looks pretty nice much better than the light fixture
that I took away and I want this as I mentioned before to aim at the deck and
away from the house when my dog jumps up there I want to bear some other animal
comes near the house I want to hit it with a floodlight I don't want these
lights shining in my door in my windows and the articulation here is pretty good
there's no adjustment as far as the tension goes it does hold its position
really well I don't expect wind or rain or any of the heavy weather we get here
to change the lighting position there right now it's in the test mode so with
that I could go oh 20 30 feet away and this is during daylight but it is only
32 degrees Fahrenheit so it's pretty sensitive to my motion and then I'm
going to put it in Auto mode which is shown here and of course you have the
option to have it come on you can control the amount of time you can
control the range that it senses don't forget to put that rubber seal right
back in there to cover where you put the screw in give a little additional
weather protection and it just looks better and there you have it so this was
pretty quick this took me 15 minutes to swap out this is showing the
articulation for the sensor there remember you can control sensitivity
range of detection if you angle it down it's going to get my dog and other
animals that come close I don't want it to come on every time a deer walks from
my backyard and this is just close up so the angles and articulation control I'm
pretty pleased with the build of it the brackets here or metal themselves the
housing is as I mentioned before pretty decent plastic material this should hold
up for quite some time I got this from Amazon I'm gonna put a link down in the
video description so you can check them out
too I if I don't get lazy here in the summertime I should put a couple of
these out probably by the bee yard as well so that it can detect and light up
when animals come near so I'm going to close out here with my chicken I'm happy
with it this is a SANSI motion activated
ceramic LED security light system easy install thanks for watching