Remote motion sensor with multiple lights

[jives]

Hi all:
I'm about to remote mount my garage motion sensor for two barn lights. According to the first diagram below, the lights are wired in parallel with the sensor, that is, both lights are wired directly to the sensor. (switch>light/light) I don't want to do it that way, but rather, wire in series, such that I have switch>sensor>light>light.



This pic shows switch>light>sensor>light, and then "to next fixture." It also shows a 14/3 wire going from the first light to the sensor, which is messing me up a bit. At any rate, this diagram seems to imply that I can simply keep daisy chaining lights in series, as long as I don't exceed sensor wattage. But does the light before the sensor somehow mess that up? So, basically, I'm looking to wire, with standard 14/2 Romex, switch>sensor>light>light. Any problems?

 

[dave89iroc]

switch box, wire nut the white in and the white out together, wire the black in to one side of switch, black out to other side of switch

then, at sensor, black from switch to black at sensor, white from switch box gets connected to sensor white, AND the white to the next fixture, then the red from the sensor gets connected to the black that goes to the first light

at first light, connect all whites (in, out and light) together and all blacks together


all grounds(bare wire) are connected together in every box

 

[wyliesdiesels]

The second diagram has source power coming from the left so the 14/3 is needed to get power to the sensor and then switched power back to the light which is in between the source and sensor.

Yes u can just keep daisy chaining lights, which are wired in parallel BTW NOT series.

 

[jives]

Yes u can just keep daisy chaining lights, which are wired in parallel BTW NOT series.

Yeah, I see that now.