Woods 59408WD Outdoor Hard-Wired Post Eye Light Control with Photocell Light Sensor

It's been in for almost 18 months and it's been working fine. You do have to pay attention to wiring this switch correctly. It can be a bit tricky to figure out if wiring isn't your thing, and it isn't mine. I noticed that it didn't work immediately when I covered the light sensor so I checked my wiring. It was correct so I waited and noticed it was working that night. Been working properly since.

Old one was fried by a nearby lightning strike. This one was a perfect fit and worked just fine. Great price, about half the price of the same item in the local home improvement store. Note that these are not instantaneous devices; they are, by design, slow to react to changing light levels. You don't want it to turn off in response to car headlights coming down the street. Was "on" when first installed, in daylight, but went out after a few minutes, then came on at dusk as intended. Has worked well since.

Bought this a couple years ago and it's still doing a great job. Easy to swap out or do an install.

Lasted 4 years. Would have thought it should have lasted longer. When it worked, it worked good.

Update: I’m noticing that the light comes on with very little clouds. Given how easy it is to change, I’m inclined to change it. I probably go with a different brand. My light stayed on all the time. Online reading quickly pointed this to being the probable quick fix, and it was. It took about 15 minutes to change it out. I bought my place 20 years ago and this is the first time replacing it. when I opened up the box, it looked identical. I swapped the unit and mapped the red/white/black wires. NOTE: When I swapped the photo-cell, it stayed on for a while and I got worried. About 5 minutes later the light went out. I'm a happy camper.

I purchased two of these and found both to be defective straight out of the package. This was quite a surprise to me because I have used this brand of photoeye before without any issues. One of the two purchased here would not turn on. The other one would not turn off. I bought two so I would have a spare on hand because these things never seem to last more than a year or two. When the first one I installed would not turn on I figured well, every now and then you're going to get a brand new unit that's defective and was glad that I'd planned ahead and had purchased a backup. I wasn't too upset at that point and just went ahead and installed the other one. I was astounded when I found the second one was bad too! Now I'm more than a little upset. I mean, two purchased at the same time and both bad? That's pretty disgusting. So, I installed a Westek photosensor from the local hardware store (at 4x the cost) and it worked perfectly. In spite of my previous positive experience with Woods electrical devices (including their photosensors) this experience leads me to conclude they've gone downhill and I will do my best to avoid purchasing their products in the future. Thankfully Amazon's return policy and procedure are good so I'm not super torqued about this now but I'm sure disappointed in Woods. If you decide to buy this item, I sure hope you have better luck than I did with it.

If you have basic wiring experience you can install this sensor yourself. It works as designed. It needs to be inside of an enclosure for weather resistance. I use it to control my 50W 200 LED driveway floodlight. I bought a small electrical enclosure 3.5in x2.5inx1.5in and BARELY got the sensor and wirenuts inside. After following the instructions and screwing the enclosure shut, I tested it. When the circuit is first powered on, if its daytime the sensor will have to be covered. S tab of black electrical tape over the sensor works fine. The light will not just switch ON. It takes a few seconds for the sensor to switch from off to on. I stood under my 50W LED floodlight at sundown to see how it operated. When it got dark enough I heard the sensor click inside of its enclosure, and the LED array started to faintly glow. Some a little brighter than the others. I was only standing one foot under the thing. As the day turned to night, the LED floodlights panel array got brighter, and brighter with all the LED's the same brightness and so bright I couldn't look directly at them. The next day when I checked the light was off. The my home security LED floodlight functions off and on totally automatic now.

Works perfectly. Comes with o-rings and lock nut. No instructions included, so I suggest that you read the 3-star review that included a wiring diagram. It'll save you time and potential trouble. Otherwise, you need to understand the difference in hot/neural/return/load and meter the wires, but you can just blindly follow the diagram.. You need your own wire nuts or whatever. I used it with an old Malibu transformer/timer for low-voltage lighting whose photocell and timer went out. The transformer was good, but the lights stayed on all the time. I cut the plug on the old Malibu unit and hard-wired this into the circuit. It seemed like where the wires enter the photocell need to have the water kept out if the unit is exposed, so I used caulk. I stress that this unit is for 110 AC volts and not 12 V. I asked a couple of lighting professionals how to fix my problem and they had far more expensive suggestions. This was cheap an cost effective even if it only lasts for a while.

lo instale pero no funciono, no apagaba la luminaria cuando habia luz, despues de varias pruebas tiene un retardo de 90 segundos, ya sea para apagarse o para encenderse da un mejor funcionamiento asi para que no se este activando por alguna sombra o luz artificial, lo recomiendo totalmente, hay que seguir la guia de instalacion o pedirle a alguien que sepa que lo instale

unit has been working for several months no with no issues. it does turn on a little to soon at dusk that I would have preferred. If I was installing another one I would aim it at the brightest source of ambient light as apposed to the a less conspicuous location since the unit is very small anyway

A replacement for an old that served well for many years.

It is pretty frustrating when you spend 2 hours trying to install something that should have taken 10 min...will you pay me for my time wasted?

bastante bueno, se instala fácilmente, como no tenia seguridad si soportaba lluvias o chubascos como los que se dan en el sureste de la República Mexicana, lo protegí totalmente con cinta de aislar y luego con cinta de hule auto-fundente, lo puse directamente en la parte superior de la barda, con la celda de cara al sol, hasta el momento a trabajado perfectamente, ya aguanto 3 chubascos que son mas fuertes que una lluvia copiosa, por cierto uno de estos chubascos duro como 6 horas y el aparato sigue funcionando con su linea de 15 metros y 5 focos led de 12 watts cada uno, se prende como a las 8 P.M. y se apaga en automático como a las 6.30 AM hora del Sureste Mexicano (clima muy cálido)