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#14 – Shirley
#27 – Joyce
#61 – Carolyn
#63 – Melissa
#82 – Sharon – Congrats ladies, you’ve all been emailed!
What parent has never said those words?
Oh, I bet you have. That’s one of the things that happens in any family. Someone is always going to leave the lights on.
Well, there’s a way to avoid that in your high traffic/kid zone areas. Lutron has come out with a product, a motion sensitive sensor that automatically turns OFF the lights when it doesn’t detect motion in a room. You can set it from 1 minute to whatever and when that room is quiet and idle, the lights will automatically turn off. And the light will automatically turn ON when you enter the room.
That’s pretty cool, don’t you think? It’s amazing all the new products out there and this is one that I love! Lutron asked me to try out one of their products and share it all with you, so let’s get started.
There’s a giveaway at the end, so don’t miss that!
The Lutron Occupancy Sensor switch is really very neat. Once installed, you can set the timer to however many minutes you want to have it stay on before it automatically switches off.
And it’s all from motion in the room. Those kids going in and out of the bathroom leaving the lights on? Yeah, those days are over with this gadget!
I decided to put mine in the laundry room. Sometimes we are in and out of there and forget to turn the lights off so this will come in handy.
After 1 minute, the lights will go OFF automatically. Love that!
Here’s how easy it is and I’ve got a little video to share that too. You remove the old switch, then hook up black to black and black to tan (my extra wire was tan, not sure if that is universal), but the green wire is the ground wire as is that silver wire that comes out of the Lutron. Just wrap the silver and green wires around the grounding screw, screw all of the screws back in and reconnect to the wall.
The sensor works with all light bulbs, including incandescent, halogens, fluorescents, and more. It is also available in the occupancy sensor and dimmer switch as well. I just chose the occupancy sensor.
That’s it! Then you can set the timer to whatever length of time you want for your switch to go OFF when not in use. I think this is great for families with kids. Imagine all the arguments than can be saved with this? You can find out more about the Maestro Occupancy Sensor at the Lutron site.
No more yelling, “Who left the lights on?”.
Check out the video below for installation ease. Someone mentioned that I didn’t say to turn off the power to the light switch before installing, so YES, definitely DO turn off the breaker to that room before doing any electrical installation.Â
Now, for some fun for all of you too, Lutron is offering up 5 of these Lutron Occupancy Sensor switches for 5 winners on my blog. All you have to do is leave a comment telling me the room you’d like to use it in. You can chose the Occupancy sensor or Occupancy with dimmer too. I’ll choose 5 winners in a few days and then they will get the chance to try out a switch too. I really like how this works and I think ya’ll will too!
If you don’t win the giveaway, here’s a coupon code for you!
Offer
25% off Maestro occupancy/vacancy sensor dimmers and switches on LutronStore.com PLUS one free Claro single-gang wallplate ($4.90 suggested list price) with each qualifying item.
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Promo Code
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Code expiration date
Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013
Note: This is a sponsored post by Lutron. I was compensated to try this product out and share it with all of you, my readers. All opinions and how it was installed are all my own words.Â
Hi Rhoda……….Great idea! That would work great in our kitchen. Thanks for the little video on showing how to connect also!
This is so cool! I’d put on in the hallway.
My husband’s closet, or the pantry. Those are the two lights I find left on most often.
What a handy thing that is. I would use it in my garage where I often forget to turn the lights out Thank you for showing us these new gadgets!
I love these..we have them at work and it is awesome. I would put one in the bathroom, the laundry room and the kids rooms. They really are nice and so energy saving when you have people who forget to turn the lights off when they leave a room.
I’d love one in the laundry room as well. Good idea!
I would love one of these for my downstairs hallway. What a great and useful giveaway. Thanks!
i really need this as my husband never remembers to turn off the high hats in the bathroom. if he leaves after i do they are on when i come home!
I would love to have a few of these. All my kids are grown, but my 23 yr. old son still lives with us, (still in school). He has a bad habit of leaving his closet light on, and his bathroom light, (both). The husband leaves the master bath light and his closet light on. What is it with men. They also leave the over head kitchen, and dinning light on when there’s no reason for them to be on. I’m walking through my house turning lights off more now then I did when all 3 of my kids were home. My husband is so worried about how much longer he may have a job, but doesn’t want to help keep the electric bill down. This would be so useful. Never thought of it before. Thank you!
I would love to have this for my finished basement. The basement has one window which looks out into the unfinished part of the basement, therefore the finished part as well as the staircase is quite dark. How wonderful it would be to have a light come on before I reached the bottom step! Sounds like a great product!
The basement.
I would definitely put it in my craft room. Yep…I’m that person that forgets to turn the light off!
I would put them in both of my boys rooms. They always walk out of the room and leave their lights on!
Hi Rhoda- I bought these at least 10 years ago for my 2 daughter’s bathroom. The only problem was that it didn’t work well with fluorescent lightening. But they really are great. Blessings Paula Lusk
HI, Paula,
Here’s a link to bulbs that work well with Lutron dimmers.
http://www.lutron.com/technicaldocumentlibrary/3682066_cfl_led_bulb_list.pdf
Definitely the kitchen! Always left on by someone in the family and it drives me up the wall! Thank you for information on this product.
We’d use those in the bathrooms and basement! Would save tons of arguments! Thanks for the giveaway. 🙂
The laundry room! When my arms are full of dirty clothes, I try to turn the light on with my elbow! It would be great to have the light come on automatically! Thanks for the chance to win!
That is my pet peeve!! Of course I grew up during the Energy Crisis!
My room:)
I could definitelyuse this product in my basement family room. The light switch is too high up for my grandchildren. This would help alot!