Customer Reviews

Westek SLC4CG 150W Screw-In Light Control, Gray

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(9)

 

 

The sensor seemed to work fine as far as on at dusk and off at dawn. However, like others, I found that it significantly dimmed the bulb. My 100W bulb seemed more like a 40W, which wasn't useful to me as far as providing night time safety. I returned it.

Kinda works, but often the bulb will flicker. Don't know if I just got a bad one but sure wouldn't buy another....

With this automatic lamp sensor ligth control, I don't need to
remember to turn on/off my driveway lamps. This sensor does that
for me.

Works great - but drastically dims the 60w watt bulb I was using. Now I have a 100w watt bulb in this device but it doesn't get as bright the original 60w bulb did. Not sure I'm really saving any energy by trying that tactic.

According to the technical details this device is rated for 150w but I believe the item title stating 15w is the true number. My fixture is only rated for 100w bulb so I can't go to an even higher wattage bulb. And so I will be looking for something else. (As advertised, it does not work at all for compact flourescent causing major flicker - also likely due to the low output problem - too bad.)

I have owned more of these than I care to admit. Totally unreliable. amazon carries a ridiculously expensive version also which I'll try

These things don't work all that well, and make otherwise bright bulbs a lot dimmer. I regret purchasing them.

My title review says it all. The light control not only dims the light bulb during the night, it doesnt take the light off when dawn hits.
Waste of time item.

Never worked since I opened the box. The light blinked after I installed this item. It was daytime. Don't buy it.

This worked surprisingly well. My expectations were rather low based on the lousy reviews, but for 7 bucks is was worth a shot. We have spotlights were are *supposed* to turn on/off based on a timer...the timer doesn't work so the lights are either manually ON all the time or OFF all the time. I don't like that and would rather they turn on at night and off in the morning. By installing this on one of the Y-based lights, we seem to have gotten around the problem. I'm ordering a second item for the other spotlight (even though the directions say not to install more than one of the same circuit, I'm going to give it a try).

I was concerned that the sensor would be too deep in the spotlight's metal casing to be able to detect any meaningful light, but that does not seem to be the case. We did screw it in with the sensor pointing AWAY from the other spotlight...not sure if it would make a difference, but I didn't want the other spotlight to simulate sunlight and shot the light off. This does not appear to happen.

All-in-all, we're happy. We have 100 watt spot lights that don't appear to be any dimmer with this unit. We will install one more on the second Y-based spotlight and may install one on the front porch light, as well.

Bought 3 at once. One didn't work at all ...one works but is super-touchy ...and the third one works fine.