Okay, so I bought new porch lamps from the blue box store, Portfolio brand or something. So, old lamps down, new back plate to mount against the siding, rewired, etc etc.
Open the box for the new lamp, unpack everything, only to realize it has some sort of automatic dusk-to-dawn setting and a photosensor.
Nowhere on the box does it mention this, and nowhere in the instructions! The only reason we noticed was it had a weird ballast and didn't take regular bulbs.
Are there replacement ballasts that can convert this into a regular socket? Is there such a beast?
In the software engineering world, we say "It's a feature not a bug!". I guess I'll give the dusk-to-dawn setting a try; but it's hard to test such an installation in broad daylight. Covering the photosensor only gave me a brief flicker.
Grr!