I tried giving the Sensor Plug a sharp blow to the the side of the case by slamming it into a table top like Zimmy suggested in a comment last week.

That brute force cure worked at bringing life back to this product. Now the Sensor Plug will eventually turn whatever is plugged in off, and then turn it back on when movement is detected. I'm just not sure yet what the interval length is.

Not sure if that proves it must have a mechanical relay or maybe the adjustment potentiometer was damaged and the jolt brought it back to a proper state of providing variable resistance.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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