Occupancy Sensor

How do I control a light in a dressing room that has a 5753 Occupancy Sensor set to turn the light ON when motion detected and stay ON for 60 seconds then turn the light OFF if no more movement is detected. Then I want to be able to over ride the sensor with an ON/OFF switch so the light can be controlled manually. At present I can do the first step but when I try to manually control the light the sensor over rides the ON/OFF function of the switch.

Thanks

Steve

 

Found my training notes and on page 32 of Programming Examples it shows me how to disable the sensor when the light is on.

Problem solved

Thanks

 

You shouldn't need to overide the sensor with the switch. Because there should still be motion in the room, so it shouldn't be an issue.

Then at least once they walk out the room it will turn off automatically.

In my opinion I wouldnt make the switch overide the light.

 

Quite often, you may find the light from a dressing room may flood into another room and therefore you don't want the light on, say as you pass through the dressing room to go to the loo.. There may be pets, anything that could cause unwanted triggers. Likewise, you may want the light to stay on when there is little movement... say when you're looking to find a pair of your wife's stilettos to wear and want to sit down and do it quietly and not move about too much, but keep the light on... you'd look stupid in the red ones

Cheers

 

Ha Ha, but wouldnt that mean, you would need like a master off for the sensor? or just have a separate switch just to control the sensor on its own?

 

But i suppose thats why every application is different.

 

A perfect example in my home is that the sensor dims the bathroom light up to 25% during the night. But if I decide that I want to turn it up to 50% or 100%, the sensor still re-triggers and dims the light back down to 25%.

Another side-effect of the default sensor behaviour is if I turn the light off before I walk out the door, the sensor still picks up my movement on the way out, and turns it back on again.

 

Yeah thats why with the last place i done, i put the switches on the outside of the rooms with the sensors.

 

I have some Logic to help me with a motion detector. A similar thing happens if I leave my scullery and the detector triggers again. Maybe the below logic can help if you have something like a PAC or Logic engine on the network. It might not be the best code but it works great.

 

Depends on how you want to use the light in the room, for light for general use say in a walk in robe you'd have the sensor, but you may want the light in the background as your watching tv in your bedroom so you would want the light on permanently and not timing out due to the sensor.

 

Help Please

I can not find this in my notes/paperwork. I have a room with sensor and a single gang switch to disable while watching TV ect..

 

The following Technical Support Application Note explains how to set up the functions that you want. I use it on my house and it works perfectly.

http://www.cbusforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2016

 

Would this apply to the 5751L as well ?

 

The top of the Application Note lists the 5751L under "Products Applicable" so yes, this applies to the 5751L as well.