Help me find the right replacement outside lights

[richieboy]

Afternoon,

I'm looking to replace my outside lantern lights, only thing is they seem to be a bit different in that there is two of them, and they both each have a PIR sensor mounted in them and they are connected to each other, so if one detects motion they both switch on at the same time.

As such, I thought I'd take a photo of their wiring:


It seems that these lanterns themselves have multiple wires going in where as a 'normal' light obviously doesn't. I've been googling stuff without much luck...does anyone know what I should be searching for?!

Thanks!

 

[Mysterae_]

It looks like your light has a switched live (SL) terminal, sometimes called an override.

Normally the switched live is connected to a two contact switch so that you can switch between auto (normal) and always on rather than quickly powering off and on again like most PIR lights.

This link might be useful - https://flameport.com/electric/lighting_circuits/PIR_lighting_sensor_with_override_switch.cs4

 

[richieboy]

The two lanterns are indeed wired to a switch internally that lets you turn them on permanently and then 'off' and when I say off I mean using PIR, so that sounds like exactly what you are talking about. Appreciate your time, many thanks Mysterae.