Woods L4700WD Outdoor Twist Lock Light Control with Photocell

My mercury light wouldn't shut off so I ordered this sensor and a more efficient led corn bulb and changed both. Works as it should now. Good price too.

I'm not an original owner of my house and I estimated that my driveway lamp light is at least 25 yrs old. The setup of my lamp uses 2 black wires and 2 white wires which I figured is equal to 220 volts. The new whole set lamp I bought from HD uses 1 black wire and 1 white wire which is 110 volts only as described it the manual. Instead of spending additional money for professional electrician to do re-wiring, I decided to return the item to HD and bought this Photo Control thru Amazon. It arrived early and install it in snap. That simple. I just pull-out upward the old worn-out photo control. Locate the 3 old holes and push it down the new Photo control. Tried to twist left or right but no room to wiggle. It said that the arrow must be facing north but the old holes were already set-up for north-facing installation. Voila...it's done. It is working properly for past 3 days now. It turns-on when slightly dark at around 8pm and off as early as 5am San Diego summer time.

I’ve had a Woods-type outdoor lamp from Home Depot for several years, and it served me well until recently. When the sensor seemed to fail, I found the exact replacement here on Amazon and installed it. Unfortunately, the lamp continued to cycle on and off after dark, just as it had before.The bulb isn’t the problem—it lights up briefly, shuts off, then tries to restart again and again. That suggests the sensor is triggering, but something in the lamp’s startup or internal circuitry may be failing to keep it on.If anyone has encountered this issue and found a solution, I’d love to hear about it. And if the manufacturer is listening, it may be worth looking into whether this is a common failure pattern.

worked as expected.....

It does what I need it to do but be careful. I could not find the base it plugs into by the same manufacturer so I bought one thinking, more like hoping, that they would be standard across manufacturers. I was wrong. I got the base first so I got it wired and installed. The base has an arrow pointing north so I made sure it was. When I got this sensor it has a arrow pointing north as well and that when I had a problem. When I plugged it in the sensor was pointing south. I had to make an adjustment to the base so the sensor would point north. With that being my only problem I would still be it again.

I have an outside light from Area Lighting Research Inc. that I put up 25+ years ago and the photosensor started to act up. Couldn't get an exact match as the photosensor has been discontinued. Figured I'd give the Woods replacement a shot, even though the dimensions were slightly different. The replacement from Woods, fit perfectly and was easy to install. The light is working dawn to dusk, just like new.

Works like it should !!!

works ok but I couldn't figure how to turn it to face north. it won't turn that far. But it does turn on and off the light. That's what I got it for!