Thread: Cheap/ easy motion sensor

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Originally Posted by senorita

Question: What are some of the ways you use a motion sensor light in your haunts?

The sky's the limit. Sensors and switches are the key to most of the big scares. You can have an actor in a dark corner that lights up when the TOTers pass by. Or a prop that starts to move when the kids are near. Anything you can imagine can be done. It freaks people out when they look at a graveyard scene, and the lighting changes to a chilling blue, or red as they pass by.

Oh, and it also helps when hooked up to big white lights on the nights before the big night. Nothing says "Don't steal me" than a bright light on a dark night.

GREAT tutorial! Thank you!

Great job, bro! You got to give it up for simplicity! Great tut!

Thank you from someone that is just starting out with electronics. I would buy my motion sensor on ebay because I was worried about trying to do this, but you made it seem so easy. Thanks so much for the step by step with pictures! You saved me $25 dollars.

i am going to have to use that

Wondering where you found that motion sensor flood light? Just came back from Home Depot, and all of the lights I found had a minimum 1 minute ON time, which is far too long for my use.

Thanks!

I have used one like this for the last few years
08'

07'

Looking at your picture (where you connected the cord to the light) how do you know which cable to connect to the white cable and which to the black?

I don't do much electrical work primarily because I am not knowledgeable in that area. That being said, I have put in things such as ceiling fans with remotes as long as I have directions.

I'm curious as Mark is. I was wondering what wire when to what wire. My other question is, can I plug my pnuematic spider into this and have it work? Will it set off the solinoid? That way if it ran for a couple mins that would be great.