IKEA PAX wardrobe & Striberg light strip problematic combination

Hello everyone,

I was at Ikea on Friday and saw a wonderful Pax wardrobe (the kind with sliding doors). When you opened the sliding door on one side, the light inside the wardrobe automatically turned on. It was the same with the other sliding door.
There was a note attached to the wardrobe describing everything you need for it: among other things, 2 Striberg light strips.

So I did as said: I bought the wardrobe and the necessary accessories and assembled it over the weekend. It went pretty well so far.

The left Striberg light strip also works wonderfully. When you slide the left wardrobe door open, the light automatically turns on.

The right Striberg light strip does not work as desired. When it is set to "AUTO," it simply stays on all the time (even when the wardrobe door is closed).

The left Striberg strip is connected (via the transformer(?)) directly to the socket. The two transformers are connected with a Ansluta cable.

Can anyone explain why the right Striberg strip simply stays on all the time and never turns off? Any tips? I am grateful for any advice.

Best regards

There is a thread about the topic somewhere here, I think the lamp was still called Komplement back then.

Hey,

Thanks for the tip about the name. However, that hasn't brought me the desired success yet - you probably meant this thread, right?
https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/lichtleiste-komplement-fuer-ikea-pax-schrank.19130/

So today I tried a bit - I suspect firstly that these are not light sensors, but distance sensors.

Then I only connected the apparently defective light once (and left out the other one) - but it still doesn't work. The light just stays on all the time :-/. So it can't be anything to do with the wiring either.

The annoying thing is: I can't get the defective Striberg strip out of the holder anymore - does anyone have a tip for that?

Does anyone have any advice?

To determine if it is a light sensor...make the room completely dark and then shine a flashlight on the (functioning) sensor. If the light turns on, it is a light sensor (and not a distance sensor, motion sensor). Which sliding doors do you have? Possibly too much light still reaches the sensor through the door. Realigning the light (into the "shade") could possibly help.

Or try swapping both lights, maybe one is broken.

Hello,

I have a similar problem. But in my case, the lamp was probably installed too far back.

However, I also can't get the Striberg light strip out of the holder anymore.

So again, the question is whether there is still a tip for this?

Thank you