Heath Zenith, cycles on and off..

Overall Rating1.331.331.331.331.33

cycles on and off constantly in a light breeze

I have two sets of Heath Zenith lights. My old sensor’s photocell finally died on one set so I replaced it with this one, which is the same model. The old sensor worked fine for 7 years. This one out of the box is oversensitive. Even on the minimum sensitive setting if there is a light breeze, the lights come on. The old sensor did not do this. Nothing else changed, so it’s the sensor. I picked up a second one thinking it was just a bad unit. Nope…same problem. We’ll likely need to get something a little better quality to work properly. These are made in China and sold in big box stores so I’m not too surprised at the lack of quality. Customer support is useless. Without going into too much detail, let’s just say that I think they work for free. I used to recommend Heath Zenith lights. No longer.

Update (5/19/2012): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen.

The featured review for this product, Heath Zenith SL-5316-WH-B Replacement Wide-Angle Motion Sensor, White Tools & Hardware, was written by ML.

The average rating for this item is 1.3 out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.

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Reviews (3)

ML

April 3rd, 2010 at 9:46 pm    


Overall Rating11111

cycles on and off constantly in a light breeze
Rated 1 stars.


Andy

April 7th, 2010 at 7:58 am    


Overall Rating11111

Heathco = Junk
I bought three different Heathco motion sensing lights and all three had problems. I bought them at three different stores thinking there might have been a bad batch or something… Each was defective in its own way. The “dim” mode never come on the first one. The second never turned off, it stayed full bright all night. The third one cycled on and off every ten seconds. I read the instructions, reset by turning off/on, reaimed lights…even emailed Heathco. Guess what? They never responded. POOR QUALITY AND POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE. A losing combination for sure!!!


Daniel Hackbarth

April 14th, 2010 at 10:47 pm    


Overall Rating22222

Not for use with flourescent lights
This sensor does not work with fluorescent lighting. I have not seen this information in the description but it may be somewhere. It only works with an incandescent bulb. It will not even register with my lamp AC quick test that has a neon (presumed) bulb in it to tell if there 120V or 220V present. I hope they come out with a (240 ° series) to work with fluorescent soon.


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