The security light will not turn off even after turning power off and on?

Then the five minutes can become five hours (for a bedroom or bathroom light, for example), or even five days for a light in a room you rarely visit such as the furnace room. If you just can't remembering to turn off lights when you leave a room, you might consider installing a motion sensor plug (for a floor or table lamp) or a motion sensor light switch or ceiling light adapter. You can turn on the light from the switch, or have it go on when motion or the heat of a human body is detected.

A Manual-On device is only activated when you flick the switch; a Sensor-On device can also be activated by motion or heat. A few minutes after the device stops detecting movement or body heat, the power to the light is shut off. The sensors in these devices do consume a small amount of power, but far less than you'll consume if you keep forgetting to turn off lights!

See the motion or infrared sensor light bulb connections, switches, and plug-in devices featured on this page - they are all available through Amazon.com. For those who want a motion sensor light switch but aren't electrically inclined, you can install a special sensor panel over top of a standard light switch that will turn the switch off after a set period of inactivity. This switch mounts easily with just a screw driver.

It requires three AA batteries, and can be set to turn off after 1, 5, 15, or 30 minutes of inactivity. Once you've set it up, it monitors motion in the room, and shuts the light switch off when there's been no motion during the timer period. This is a great way to save money if someone in your house is prone to forgetting to turn off a light, especially one that's in an out-of-the-way room where the light might otherwise get left on for hours at a time.

Make it your philosophy to turn off lights. Not only will you save electricity when you turn off lights, and save money overall, but it will remind you to be an energy saver in other ways. And you'll be setting a visible example to others, who will become more conservation conscious as well.

Once you've gotten into the habit of turning off lights (and convinced others in your household to do the same) don't forget to put some of the savings into adding more energy saving lightbulbs to your home - CFLs, dimmable CFLs, LEDs, fluorescent tube lighting. © Green Energy Efficient Homes Inc.