 broad daylight so the problem is we got a bad photo cell and I know I've done a video on photo cell replacement before but never done this one so we'll get into all the steps of changing out a photo cell and I'll show you what to do hey before we get any further right now is a perfect time for you to hit that subscribe button if you are interested in learning how to fix things around your home or your maintenance man at a apartment complex whatever it is if you want to learn things go ahead and click that subscribe button and while you're doing that hit the little bell right next to it that way when I drop a video you're gonna be first to be notified so go ahead hit that subscribe button did you do it come on right down there it's easy the red little subscribe there you go thanks a lot guys I appreciate it now let's get back to the video well I got my camera set up on a gorilla pod so it's kind of vicariously sitting on this meter here but I'm gonna go ahead and open this panel so I'm gonna go ahead and take this inner panel out and expose this photo cell so that we can wire in a new one show what I'm talking about I'm gonna take this photo cell out it's it's pretty old looks like the sensor inside of it is messed up so I'm gonna take this panel off here and go ahead and replace the photo cell fire back here this one's not even hooked up it's not that one there's one on the bottom I wonder why they did that let me show you what I'm talking about in this photo this box here in this electrical box we've got this photo cell here but somebody snipped the wires on it we've got another one right here that's probably that's probably one of the reasons why that light on these build or these lights on this building are staying on so I'm gonna have to pull that one out and I'm gonna pull the other one out as well what I do is leave the little one in there and just rewire in a regular size photo cell on the side of the box I'll go ahead and replace that one and use this one to control my lights because this is underneath and it's not getting a whole lot of light back here you can see these woods I got behind me all this shrubbery and everything it's kind of letting the light it it's kind of restricting the light I should say so I'm gonna go ahead and put a photo cell here and I'll just leave this one in place to keep that hole plugged up what we got is three wires on the photo cell white black and a red the red's gonna go to your lights themselves black being a hot leg that's gonna go to your breaker and of course all the whites go to neutral so go ahead and unhook all these wires let go ahead and pull the nut off of this old photo cell here you can see that somebody's cut the wires on that one pretty rough shape got my new photo cell so what you got to remember when you're buying photo cells is to make sure your voltage is 120 volts here at the panel and when you're buying a photo cell make sure you got 120 volt photo cell because there's nothing worse than having the wrong photo cell you put it in you go through all this trouble and it doesn't work trust me I've had it happen when I first got here we had six or eight photo cells in the shop so I had a couple of buildings that needed photo cells and I just grabbed them went put them on wasn't getting light couldn't figure it out for the life of me I kept looking and trying to figure out I looked at the box there were 208 277 volt photo cells not gonna work so make sure that you've got 110 volt photo cell to go on 110 volt light circuit installing is not that bad like said you get three wires red black and white white you neutral black is your hot leg so that's gonna go to your breaker and then the red goes to the light circuit itself the wire that feeds all the lights on the building so blacks always hot so you remember that you'll know how to hook one of these up guys doing some construction work here behind me I don't know if you can hear them back there holler and screaming building some houses next door so I've taken a nut off of this I'm gonna leave the washer because I want this to seal I don't want water to get in or bugs or anything like that I'm just going through that hole so make sure you turn in the breaker off when you get in here to do this best way to do is take the breaker completely out if you can tighten that little nut on the inside snug it down pretty good you want that seal to do something show you what I got all right got the new photo cell in place got the nut I'm trying to shoot a video here it's the bad thing about being so close to an airport anyway I'm gonna go ahead and wire this back in like I said white to neutral it's all pretty simple from here it's some wire nuts use the neutral that you were wired into don't drop them black wire right here this black wire right here is my hot leg I'm sorry this black this black wire is my light circuit this is the one that goes to all the lights remember that's the red line red wire so I fold those back into the panel get them out of the way get your black leg up there where you can get it put back into the breaker secure your black leg make sure everything is good and tight you don't want to have this thing short and out on you burn up a breaker because you didn't tighten it up enough you don't want to over tighten it and strip that screw or break the plastic around the breaker but you definitely want to get it tightened up all right once that's in place we can go ahead and snap the breaker back in I get to put your panel back in place your inner cover you need to cover all these wires up last thing you want to do is have some kid come along and open this door all these exposed wires you're taking out a kid you don't want that aggravation make sure that you're putting all these panels back together like they came off it if it's missing a panel find a panel and put it in there if let me show you this if you've got one of these little tabs that's missing on here get you a piece of metal or something to screw in here and cover that blank spot up if it's open and there's nothing and there's not a breaker in that spot but one thing you're gonna fail some kind of an electrical inspection and for two that's another spot for somebody to put their hand in there and touch an electrical circuit and electrocute somebody so you don't want to go through that make sure that all this is like it's supposed to be show you what I'm talking about you can see how that panel there's no missing there's no breakers in here and all of these are in place like they're supposed to be and that's what you want you want these to be covered up as well as this plate being in place I'll go ahead and put the screw back in place and this is where the 11-in-1 screwdriver comes in really handy because remember I told you before a lot of breakers switches outlets and even these little screws on breaker panels it's got that little square in them and this fits into that screw and look it's not going nowhere so I got my photo cell replaced got everything wired back in like it's supposed to be I'm gonna turn on the breaker and as of right now the lights they may have come on just for a moment but hopefully if our photo cells doing its job they should go off just like that like I said before make sure that the photo cell you use is the right one for the voltage you have if you've got 120 volts that your lights are good you want to make sure that you're using a hundred and twenty volt photo cell because don't make the mistake I made it's not very fun this is Dan Giles with let's fix it it's a beautiful day even though it is overcast but got a photo cell in lights are off that's a good thing we're not burning any more juice than we have to all right guys I'll see you in the next video