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Luxury Residential & Renovations
A luxury automated residents on the main Nerang river, Carrara. We were able to provide complete electrical, lightng and AV design into this project. See our Projects tab for more details.
Old Power Supplies
Once again we have come across old style Cbus power supplies causing weird things to happen on the network. This was about 3 weeks ago.When replaced however with what was calculated to be the correct value of new power supplies, the network still had issues at times....
Saturn DLT switches
The Clipsal Cbus DLT switch is one beautiful switch plate. DLT stands for, Dynamic Labelling Technology. What this means is that next to each button there is a LCD panel that you can programme a word into. For example, Lounge, Vol, Source, Bench. The other cool thing...
Bargain Apartments Tweed Heads
We have recently finished a luxury block of 9 apartments at Tweed Heads for our builder and developer “Coast to Coast Constructions”. Now you can deal direct with the developers/ builders of this project. Do you want to “cut out the middle man” and save money ! Here...
Lighting Services
Lighting Specialist – Feature Lighting At Connecting.com.au we have a separate trading entity for our lighting supply. We do this via our trading name Feature Lighting. Feature Lighting was first formed in 1990 with a small shcwroom at Nerang on the Gold Coast. Now it...
Tariff 33 pool upgrades
Well there has been a rush on since Energex started advertising the fact that they are offering a $250 rebate for people who connect their pool pumps onto tariff 33. Tariff33 runs at around 30% cheaper than the normal tariff 11 and is available for a minimum of 18...
What else on Tariff 33?
So, is it only pool pumps that are eligible for being on Tariff33? No there is much more than just pools allowed. Of course hot waters systems have always been allowed on Tariff33 but there so much more. Basically any appliance can be put onto Tariff 33 as long as it...
Apple TV – what and why?
For quite while we have been installing APPLE TV units as part of a clients distributed music system and standalone installations. Combined with an IPod touch, iPhone, iPad, mac computer or even a PC running iTunes, it remains a handy and practical device. What is an...
Another School lecture theatre
We recently had another opportunity to do a refit of large steeped seating school lecture theatre. Our job involved supplying a new projector and relocating it, new lectern with touchscreen control, new input plates, upgrading to HDMI, new PA and presentation...
Lectern Touchscreen
KX7 In-Wall Touchpanel The extraordinary KX7 is packed full of features for complete control of entertainment, environment and security systems in any residential or commercial installation. The wall-mounted touchpanel has a slim profile, framing a control interface...
Rewiring for C-Bus
We often have people interested in rewiring existing homes for C-Bus. I myself have had to do this for two houses I have owned and it both cases they were both two storey homes. Two storey homes bring their own set of difficulties. What is amazing though is that as...
Where do we service?
FROM BRISBANE TO BALLINAWhile being based on the Gold Coast, we have a large area that we service. In recent months we have been up to Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast and down to Cabarita in Northern NSW. Most of our works involves luxury homes in what is considered...