I think that information would have affected my decision to buy the unit. Also, I do not remember reading in any of the advertising or literature that the bulbs were not replaceable and that you would need to buy a new one when they burned out. I would expect that the unreplaceable bulbs would last much longer. Programmer66 at 15:10 Hi, the RFL is the motion detector and lights. If the LED lights mounted on separate boxes, then I can provide a better answer to question 2. I am assuming you only have one box with motion dector and Led lights mounted as a unit. Quite frankly, the unit only goes on when there is motion and then goes off soon after. 1 It would help if you can provide a photo of your Motion-LED light setup. I found this unacceptable since I did not think that the 18 months I owned the unit warrented burnt out bulbs. My one year warranty expired about 6 months ago. They said they would offer me a 35% discount on the purchase of a new one. When I called support to find out how to replace the bulbs, I was advised that the bulbs, in fact, cannot be replaced, the whole unit needs replacing. I started searching on the site for info about bulb replacement and read somewhere that the bulb have an extremely long life. If you need more help with that, it would be a new question with pictures, but that's the basic idea.My Floodlight Cam bulbs started flashing the other night which I believe means that the bulbs are bad. Once you find the other end of the white and grey, you can then rewire them to provide power to the Ring. To do that, you would want to open up the boxes for the switched lights on the garage and see where the white and grey wire to the motion detector end up. If you don't want to switch the existing lights any more (they would be dead) and instead want only the ring light to work, you can turn the switch loop into a normal hot and neutral wire. If conduit is running to the box, you may be able to pull an additional wire, but there is another option. If there are only two wires in the motion detector box, then this is acting like a switch loop and you can't install a Ring light there as it sits. I believe this second case is what we are talking about, and in this method, the motion switch just acts like a light switch and doesn't have power going to it. You put only the motion detection pod where its needed, and it controls other lights that are mounted separately. This is what the Ring is trying to duplicate. The type of "garage motion light" that most people are familiar with has a motion detector and two floodlights built into one package. My reasoning for the (JB)white wire to (RFL)black wire is that the two neutral colored wires coming from the junction box, seem to be indicative of a switch loop?Īlso, I'm wondering if there be a problem with (1) replacing a motion sensor that triggers the lights above the garage, with a ring floodlight and (2) could the LEDs that are currently being triggered by the motion detector, cause problems with the ring floodlight camera? My initial impressions are:(JB)Bare Wire to(RFL)Bare wire(then ground to junction box) (JB)Gray Wire to(RFL)White Wire (JB)White Wire to (RFL)Black wire. Out of the ring floodlight camera, there is a (1) white wire (2) black wire (3) bare wire.ĭoes anyone know what to do in place of no easily identifiable "hot wire", coming out of the junction box? Out of the junction box, there is a (1) White wire (2) gray wire (3) bare wire. I took off the motion detector without taking not of the wiring, but inside the junction box outside of the garage, there is no "hot wire" thats easily identifiable. Additionally, I replaced the lights above the garage with LEDs of the same spec. The Motion detector triggers the 4 lights above of the garage to turn on, and there is a switch inside the house that can turn the lights on and off. I want to install a Ring Floodlight Camera, in place of a motion detector outside the garage.
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