Hi,
I think this probably isn't the type of thing that gets asked on this forum, probably more for an electrician but I think people here will probably know anyway. I'm not an electronic engineer of any sort or an electrician, but soldering is part of my work so I'm confident in soldering.
I bought a 5 of these time delay switches for our communal stair well as several of the other rubbish pneumatic ones had completely failed:
http://www.eterna-lighting.co.uk/product/tls1440/
I'm switching 2D fluorescent lamps, so definitely not LED, and the exact model and wattage have been confirmed to work by the original manufacturer.
So once the light is turned on anywhere, the lamps flash, usually they stay on for a few seconds and then flash roughly every half second or so until they turn off again. The original manufacturer have stated that I should 'fit a 100k/2W resistor into the circuit' to prevent this issue.
As far as I can tell, this item is available for 19p from Maplin:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/metal-film-2w-100k-ohm-resistor-d100k
Could anyone please advise, is this the correct item? And what wires in the lighting circuit should I solder this into? The rough plan in my head is to pull up a bit of lighting cable where I can find a bit of slack behind one of the switches, solder this in and then put some shrink tube over the component? Am I going about this wrong?
Thanks.
I think this probably isn't the type of thing that gets asked on this forum, probably more for an electrician but I think people here will probably know anyway. I'm not an electronic engineer of any sort or an electrician, but soldering is part of my work so I'm confident in soldering.
I bought a 5 of these time delay switches for our communal stair well as several of the other rubbish pneumatic ones had completely failed:
http://www.eterna-lighting.co.uk/product/tls1440/
I'm switching 2D fluorescent lamps, so definitely not LED, and the exact model and wattage have been confirmed to work by the original manufacturer.
So once the light is turned on anywhere, the lamps flash, usually they stay on for a few seconds and then flash roughly every half second or so until they turn off again. The original manufacturer have stated that I should 'fit a 100k/2W resistor into the circuit' to prevent this issue.
As far as I can tell, this item is available for 19p from Maplin:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/metal-film-2w-100k-ohm-resistor-d100k
Could anyone please advise, is this the correct item? And what wires in the lighting circuit should I solder this into? The rough plan in my head is to pull up a bit of lighting cable where I can find a bit of slack behind one of the switches, solder this in and then put some shrink tube over the component? Am I going about this wrong?
Thanks.