Flood Light Scheduler

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Project: Flood light scheduler

Aim: Reduce power cost by turning on/off the flood lights.

Specs: Simple, cheap, autonomous, manual over ride

Proposed plan: arduino with clock module for a scheduler, at a predetermined time turn on/off (say 1800 to 0130) on Tuesdays.

Location of controller: at switch for flood light, powered by local power supply.

Switching gear: contactors / ssr’s wired in series (changed) to manual switch

@Thermoelectric
@Bean_flickers
@merseyless is putting together the controller

Please let me know if you can help

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The led lit sign on the woodworking building is arduino and rtc Controlled. I’ll post the build log soon. We should move this discussion to a new build log itself @nogg3

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This might be relevant, I designed and priced all of this a while back but never implemented.

http://wiki.hsbne.org/Projects/PowerMiser

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Just a reminder that any ELV electronics need to be adequately segregated from the LV to meet AS3000 requirements when designing the control gear. Having LV faults over LAN cables is a very bad idea.