Wiring Devices and Controls is one of the 12 EDA’s Product Knowledge Modules created to develop the professional knowledge and confidence of your team.

Training in Wiring Devices and Controls includes:

• Introduction to wiring devices and controls
• Switches
• Styles, mounting arrangements and backboxes for wall-mounted socket-outlets and switches and associated products
• Plugs and socket-outlets
• Fixed wiring to free wiring connection devices
• Modular wiring accessories
• Other overhead lighting accessories
• Ancillaries
• Smart controls

E-learning option now available via The EDA Academy

All the EDA Product Knowledge Modules are available to study electronically via The EDA Academy, the Association’s e-learning portal. Each training course is delivered through video and interactive learning, but if the original hard copy text book is preferred these are still available.

Talk to the EDA team and ask for a demo of the e-learning platform.

Years of knowledge to give your team a commercial edge

City & Guilds accredited, this training programme harnesses decades of combined expertise from product experts at EDA manufacturers and allied trade associations to create an accessible and practical training opportunity for you and your team.

EDA Product Knowledge modules are also approved for Continuing Professional Development by The CPD Certification Service.

Test your knowledge

Have a go at this quiz sampled from the Wiring Devices and Controls module. Then check your answers below. If the results show that you need to boost your team’s know-how, talk to the EDA today.

Q1: What is the difference between a radial circuit and a ring final circuit?

Q2: What are double-pole switches often used for?
Q3: A customer says that the screws supplied with a socket-outlet are too short to

reach the holes in the flush backbox. What could you offer to supply, to help?
Q4: What does a Euro-plug converter do?
Q5: What do we call the part of an accessory where an electrical connection is made to the wiring?
Q6: What is a ceiling rose?

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Q1: In radial circuits, the wiring goes sequentially from one accessory to the next.
In ring final circuits, the wiring goes from one accessory to the next, until the final accessory, which is then wired back to the consumer unit to complete the circuit.
Q2: Control of power to appliances like showers.
Q3: Longer mounting screws, or extension studs.
Q4: It is secured around a European plug to permit it to be used with a UK socket-outlet.
Q5: Terminal.
Q6: A ceiling rose contains terminals to connect both the fixed wiring from the lighting circuit and the flexible cable from which a standard lamp holder hangs.

How did you do?

Full marks: Well done!

3 – 5 out of 6: Not bad. Could the EDA training help you to fill in any gaps in your knowledge and help you progress in your career?

Less than 3: The EDA Product Knowledge Programme could be just what you need to boost sales.

Watch the video and download the course directory

There’s plenty of information online at www.eda.org.uk including video and a downloadable course directory, giving you a summary of what’s covered in each of the 12 training modules.

The EDA team is ready to help. Call 020 3141 7350 or email training@eda.org.uk

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