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Home control from your phone or ipad or PC.
CONTROL YOU HOME FROM YOUR PHONEWant to control your home lighting,power, security, TV etc from your phone when sitting in your lounge or what about when you are not there at all? With a smart phone and intelligent home control systems, like C-Bus and Wiser, this is...
LED lamps
PHILLIPS MASTER SERIESWell they have been with for a couple of years now and everyone seems to be talking about LED lamps.free There is no doubt that as electricity prices increase, people are looking at ways to save money. After the initial whisk of purchasing the...
Home automation – who is an expert?
On the Gold Coast we have many electricians who claim to be home automation experts. When we start calling them or looking into their businesses more closely, we find that many just add these words because it is “cool”, ”trendy” and the “newest thing” in...
Matching dimmers to lights.
It is becoming a problem to dim successfully modern electronic light fittings. Even many lighting suppliers and there specifiers get it wrong sometimes. Today we had a commercial job we were working on with another electrical contracting firm where this happened. The...
LED dimming help
Clipsal once again has tried to help with the solution of dimming LED lamps/fittings. In our blog last night we I discussed the different types of dimming in domestic installations and that it is not always straight forward. This time I want to mention a handy little...
Brisbane doctors training rooms
We recently just finished a job in Brisbane with one of our long time associates Excite Energies owned by Chris Gleeson and managed by Brett Thiedeke. The large training room space has Pierlite LED fittings which are dimmed and controlled by combination C-Bus 5085 DL,...
C-Bus eDLT – 5085EDL
Clipsal/Schneider has finally made available its new switch known as the eDLT. It carries on from the original DLT which stood for Dynamic Labelling Technology. This was a 5 button switch which was actually an 8 button switch as the 5th button created a 2nd page for...
EcoXpert – a new initiative from Clipsal/Schneider group.
Connect Power & Cabling are pleased to be involved with the Clipsal/Schneider EcoXpert programme. High level C-Bus integrators were previously just known as the POINT-ONE programme. Our new correct title is EcoXpert Point One. As marketing begins, people,...
New CBus Wiser MK2
Clipsal have now released a new MK2 model Wiser. The new Wiser is much more straight forward to set up and sits on your network like any other network device. No longer do you have to decide to use its router or wireless capabilities or consider upsetting your clients...
Cbus electrician Gold Coast
One of the things that we are proud of at Connect Power and Cabling is the fact that we are not just CBus programmers or not just electricians. We are Cbus electricians on the Gold Coast who are also specialist in Audio Visual systems, licensed security advisers and...
Service areas.
Connect Power & Cabling is based on the Gold Coast and we have been servicing the area for some 28 years now. Initially starting as Richard Cooke Electrical and then Amplec , we changed the name to Connect Power and Cabling to reflect more the work we were doing at...
Why have a Clipsal C-Bus Home Automation system?
So why should you have or even think about a Home automation system? It is going to cost you more than traditional wiring so why spend the money? Well it’s about what it can do for you that normal electrical wiring cannot do. If those things though are of no interest...
