Motion sensor lights ought to automatically turn off after the sensor cannot detect your motion. It’s an excellent design that we don’t have to worry about leaving the lights on anymore.
Most indoor motion sensor lights allow users to manually turn off the light on demand. E.g., you can press the button on the motion sensor light switch to manually shut off the light when you want to view a presentation in a conference room. Or you can turn off your plug-in motion sensor night light or sticky battery-operated motion sensor cabinet light by toggling the on/off button on the lighting fixture.
For most outdoor motion sensor lights that are entirely auto-on and auto-off with no manual controls, it can be tricky to turn off the light when needed. The lighting outside your property accidentally triggered by wild animals would be totally worthless, consuming electricity illuminating your empty yard, especially when you have set a long timer setting such as 30 minutes.
How can we turn off the motion sensor lights?
Time Delay Expires
If the motion sensor light is completely automatic and hardwired directly to the source, there is really not much you can do to turn off the motion sensor light but wait for the timer to run out to turn off by itself.
In simple words, the only way to turn off the light is to cut the power to the light by flipping off the breaker in your breaker box. To most people, turning off the breaker to the motion sensor light is clearly not an acceptable option just for the purpose of turning off the light unless it’s extremely necessary.
Use a Switch
Unlike adding a switch to keep a motion sensor light on by directly powering the light from the power source, turning off the motion sensor light would be much easier and have nearly no requirement of wiring.
Whether you are using a motion sensor light or a combination of the motion detector and existing light, any switch that can cut the power to the motion sensor or the light can successfully turn off the light.
To get the motion sensor light back to motion detect mode, just flip the switch back ON to power up the motion sensor light again.
