Hour meter.
For my back patio so I can see exactly how many hours the lamp has clocked up and how much energy has been used.
Lantern I am planning to fit has no photocell so will also function as a junction box for external cell.

Thought people might be interested.
Both are non resettable so will have to record the numbers when changing lamps / fittings ect.

Hour meter.

For my back patio so I can see exactly how many hours the lamp has clocked up and how much energy has been used.
Lantern I am planning to fit has no photocell so will also function as a junction box for external cell.

Thought people might be interested.
Both are non resettable so will have to record the numbers when changing lamps / fittings ect.

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Ash   [28 Jan, 2026 at 06:29 AM]
Continuing over from LG - With a lantern with double tap ballast, you could wire it with 4 core (L's to both ballast taps) and implement part night dimming with a relay in this box

IIRC such relay circuits use a small power resistor (order of 5W, dont recall resistance value) either in series with the lower power tap or in parallel to the short part of the winding, to prevent drawing an arc while the relay is switching and shorting the ballast between the taps

I have seen such circuit in my visit to Michael in Switzerland (such dimming was not used in Israel, here it was done just by switching off every other lamp). He probably can provide the details

In this case, you might want separate POh ang kWh meters for each mode

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