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As an electrician, how often do you get jobs from homeowners to add a 2nd light switch into an existing lighting circuit?
Having recently re-wired my entire home I know how difficult this job can be, particularly if the house has masonry walls and the floor boards are difficult to pull up….this can be a time consuming and messy job.
What if there was an easier way?
I have developed a connected light switch which I know makes this job easier and quicker for the electrician as I’ve used it myself in my own home and if you used it potentially you can charge the customer less per job or make more profit per job or do more jobs in the same timeframe.
In it’s simplest form the system uses two products, the connected switch and the wireless switch.
Installation is as simple as removing the existing mechanical wall switch, installing the new connected switch in its place and sticking the wireless switch to the wall in the homeowners preferred location. The wireless switch can be screwed to the wall or stuck to the wall using double sided adhesive tape. You can even stick the remote switch on a piece of furniture or window if you wanted to. Installation should take no more than 10 minutes. The really neat part to this is that the smart switch uses energy harvesting technology which means that the remote switch is wire-less and battery-less so you don’t need wires for it to work and it’ll never need a battery to be changed.
I designed it to work with UK wiring installations so it doesn’t need a neutral to work, it draws its power through the unswitched and switched live conductors only, it fits into 25mm back boxes and can turn ON/OFF any type of light and DIM dimmable lamps. Aside from this it is able to be connected to the internet so if you have Alexa you can ask her to turn on your lights, do it through an app or automate your lights to turn on & off as you wish.
You can use it as a simple way for wiring up 2-way circuits, it works great as an all off switch to turn all of the lights off from one location, you could use it to add bedside lighting control, etc.
Say you would charge a homeowner on average ÂŁ150 to install an additional light switch. If you used my product then at an approximate purchase combined price of ÂŁ80 for the connected switch and wireless switch you would have ÂŁ70 profit for a job which should take no longer than 10 minutes and have minimal impact to the homeowner.
So if you have made it this far into my post then thank you. I’m planning on launching my product on Kickstarter in a month or two and the reason I am posting this is to get valuable feedback from potential customers. Is this a product you would actually use? Do you think it would make your job easier?
Please let me know any thoughts you may have.
Having recently re-wired my entire home I know how difficult this job can be, particularly if the house has masonry walls and the floor boards are difficult to pull up….this can be a time consuming and messy job.
What if there was an easier way?
I have developed a connected light switch which I know makes this job easier and quicker for the electrician as I’ve used it myself in my own home and if you used it potentially you can charge the customer less per job or make more profit per job or do more jobs in the same timeframe.
In it’s simplest form the system uses two products, the connected switch and the wireless switch.
- The connected switch is a replacement device which is installed in place of the existing mechanical wall switch, in standalone operation this does exactly the same job as the existing mechanical wall switch.
- The wireless switch is a surface mounted repeater switch which acts as the 2nd light switch.
Installation is as simple as removing the existing mechanical wall switch, installing the new connected switch in its place and sticking the wireless switch to the wall in the homeowners preferred location. The wireless switch can be screwed to the wall or stuck to the wall using double sided adhesive tape. You can even stick the remote switch on a piece of furniture or window if you wanted to. Installation should take no more than 10 minutes. The really neat part to this is that the smart switch uses energy harvesting technology which means that the remote switch is wire-less and battery-less so you don’t need wires for it to work and it’ll never need a battery to be changed.
I designed it to work with UK wiring installations so it doesn’t need a neutral to work, it draws its power through the unswitched and switched live conductors only, it fits into 25mm back boxes and can turn ON/OFF any type of light and DIM dimmable lamps. Aside from this it is able to be connected to the internet so if you have Alexa you can ask her to turn on your lights, do it through an app or automate your lights to turn on & off as you wish.
You can use it as a simple way for wiring up 2-way circuits, it works great as an all off switch to turn all of the lights off from one location, you could use it to add bedside lighting control, etc.
Say you would charge a homeowner on average ÂŁ150 to install an additional light switch. If you used my product then at an approximate purchase combined price of ÂŁ80 for the connected switch and wireless switch you would have ÂŁ70 profit for a job which should take no longer than 10 minutes and have minimal impact to the homeowner.
So if you have made it this far into my post then thank you. I’m planning on launching my product on Kickstarter in a month or two and the reason I am posting this is to get valuable feedback from potential customers. Is this a product you would actually use? Do you think it would make your job easier?
Please let me know any thoughts you may have.
