I have installed an 110v photo cell to an outdoor recpt box per wiring instructions and I do not get any voltage out of the photo cell red lead. I have connected the neutral leads together and onto the neutral lead on the recpt and connected the black (hot) lead to the black lead on the photo cell. I then connected the photo cell red lead to the hot lead on the recpt. Per the wiring diagram and get no power out of the photo cell on the red wire. I have closed off the photo cell eye and have tried another new photo cell. I have disconnected the circuit for 10minutes and retried with no results. What am I doing wrong?

Gerald

What brand and part number is the photo cell?

I hope to state the obvious, but was the photocell in the dark for some time like a few minutes?

Likely, if you measured voltage with a meter, the voltage could be present all the time whether the photocell is off or on when a load is not present if a solid state switching device is used.

Make sure BLACk says LINE and RED says load based on how you wired things.

I then connected the photo cell red lead to the hot lead on the recpt. per the wiring diagram and get no power out of the photo cell on the red wire.


Note that you said you connected the red to the hot and then said you had no power out the red. Was that a typo? If not, you should be checking for voltage on the black. Note that you can actually see the connection being made across the eye, and it can take some time.

Double check that the red is line(where the power is coming from) and black is load,(the light fixture).

Thanks, I found my problem. Without a load on the recpt the circuit will not energize. I plugged in the flag pole light and presto it worked

Gerald