When my garage was built, I had 2 floodlights installed, both working off the sensor of one of them. The "front" one with the sensor is on the front corner of the house, and the other one is above the garage door up towards the apex of the roof. After we had moved in, we decided we wanted the floodlight over the garage door to turn on when the garage door opened to give us light outside the garage door immediately, so I rewired that floodlight with a heith/zenith floodlight base with a battery powered remote sensor that is installed near the door. This setup works great, for 1-2 years before the battery powered remote FAILS. I have gone thru 3 of those remotes now and at ~$25 a pop its gottee too expensive. I've looked thru the floodlights available on lowes/home depot, but I don't really see anything that looks like a good solution. I'd like to hard wire a new flood light down near the door (to stop using battery powered remotes), but it would take quite a bit of work to route power there. There isn't any explicit hookup for my older craftsman door opener to hook it up to an outside light. Wondering if anyone had any suggestions.

I ran wires from a new dimmer switch to the location where I want to install a new light fixture. With the dimmer switch turned on, I tested the wires where the light will go. The wire test showed that the wires were hot. I then connected the light fixture and turned on the dimmer switch again...this time no power to the wires and the light would not work. As soon as I connect the fixture the circuit is not getting any power. If I remove just one of the wires from the light fixture and test again, now the wires are hot. Everytime I connect the light fixture the circuit dies. Can anyone help me out...Any ideas would be appreciated.