Magnetic switch to control high watt AC lights
My garage door opener provides an inadequate amount of light from the two 60 watt bulbs in the motor housing. This is a especially problematic during the afternoon hours when it is very bright outside and relatively dark inside the garage. Because of the unusual configuration of my driveway and garage, an approaching car must make a sharp left turn at the end of the driveway in order to park in one of the two garage spaces - and there is only a few inches of maneuvering space. To make this maneuvering easier, I would like to install much brighter lights to illuminate the interior garage "threshold". I was thinking that a couple of quartz halogen security lights, mounted inside the garage and directed at the threshold entry and triggered by some sort of magnetic switch - would do the trick. But most of the magnetic switches I've looked at are not rated to carry that kind of current. Does anyone have any ideas on what I could use to trigger these supplementary lights? An "AC-rated" RF transmitter that screws into a lamp socket maybe (if such a thing exists)? Or very heavy duty magnetic switches?