120 Volts Micro Switch

[news]

Im an amateur/novice at electronics. Mostly I'm interested in electronics to
fix things and make life a little easier around the house.

My problem is that I have a light that is on a switch outside the house. I
want to turn it on and off from inside the house. It's in an awkward place
and makes it hard and unsightly to run 120v Wires and switch box etc. into
the house. I would like to build an electronic switch that would only
require me to run a small wire to an electronic switch from the light into
the house. Can anyone point me to a schematic for this type of thing that I
can build. I want the switch to provide its own power to the low voltage
switch in the house. I don't want to be fussing with some sort of AC/DC
adapter to provide the switch power.

Can anyone help me out.

Thanks.

 

[Rich Grise]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:23:40 -0400, news wrote:

Im an amateur/novice at electronics. Mostly I'm interested in electronics
to fix things and make life a little easier around the house.

My problem is that I have a light that is on a switch outside the house. I
want to turn it on and off from inside the house. It's in an awkward place
and makes it hard and unsightly to run 120v Wires and switch box etc. into
the house. I would like to build an electronic switch that would only
require me to run a small wire to an electronic switch from the light into
the house. Can anyone point me to a schematic for this type of thing that
I can build. I want the switch to provide its own power to the low voltage
switch in the house. I don't want to be fussing with some sort of AC/DC
adapter to provide the switch power.

Can anyone help me out.

If it's just a light, your best bet would be to just get a piece of

ordinary extension cord wire, or even speaker wire, in a color that's
easy to hide, and mount a flush-mount extension switch. In any case,
you'll have to string some kind of wire anyway, and lamp cord is designed
for prettiness.

Good Luck!
Rich

 

[Richard]

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Im an amateur/novice at electronics. Mostly I'm interested in electronics
to
fix things and make life a little easier around the house.

My problem is that I have a light that is on a switch outside the house. I
want to turn it on and off from inside the house. It's in an awkward place
and makes it hard and unsightly to run 120v Wires and switch box etc. into
the house. I would like to build an electronic switch that would only
require me to run a small wire to an electronic switch from the light into
the house. Can anyone point me to a schematic for this type of thing that
I
can build. I want the switch to provide its own power to the low voltage
switch in the house. I don't want to be fussing with some sort of AC/DC
adapter to provide the switch power.

Can anyone help me out.

Thanks.

I did this once using an old rotary type dimmer. Bridged the wiper to
the high side of the pot with a CDS cell. Pointed that cell at a LED
that I mounted in the front housing of the dimmer then turning on that
LED turned on the dimmer. Adjust the pot to achieve the proper
threshold. It's not wireless but you could use any LED and a wall wart
it would be transformer isolated, opto isolated and low voltage.

Richard