The EDA’s Product Knowledge Modules help businesses like yours create cross-selling and up-selling opportunities by building knowledge and confidence.

Wiring Devices and Controls is one of 12 training courses in the programme. The EDA modules are completely flexible and can be studied in any order or combination. You choose only the training your team needs.

E-learning option

From early 2023, Wiring Devices is one of the first modules to also be available in digital format instead of a printed textbook. The digital learning option is a complete e-learning experience with videos and interactive content. The EDA team is happy to talk you through your options and can give you a demonstration of the new e-learning platform.

Professional know-how to drive sales

 Improving your team’s technical know-how through the EDA’s training could unlock additional revenue for your business. Wiring Devices and Controls provides training in:

• 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

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 lowest IP rating for industrial plugs and socket-outlets?

Q2: What is the most common type of lamp cap for general service lighting in the UK?

Q3: You are asked for a dimmer switch for LED lamps. What do you need to ask?

Q4: What can be supplied to enable a double-socket to be fitted to a single-gang flush-mounting backbox?

Q5: What are the common ratings of BS 1362 (UK plug and connection unit) fuses?

Q6: What appliances or equipment might use an unfused connection unit?

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.

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Q1: IP44

Q2: B22

Q3: Is the lamp and/or transformer suitable for dimming? What type of dimmer is recommended by the manufacturer of the lamp and/or the transformer (leading edge or trailing edge)?

Q4: Conversion pattress.

Q5: 3 A (red), 5 A (black), 7 A (black), and 13 A (brown).

Q6: Cooker, immersion heater.

Watch the video and download the Course Directory

There’s plenty of information online at www.eda.org.uk including videos 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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Axiom Wiring Accessories has launched a new range of weatherproof switches and sockets.

These IP66 rated products comprise one and two gang options for 13A three pin switched sockets, two way switches with neon and for empty enclosures. In addition, there is a two gang unswitched socket and a one gang connection unit.

Robustly built for heavy duty use, quality features include brass earth terminals, stainless steel self-retaining screws and efficient gaskets for water protection. Installation is made easier with simple push out knockouts and space allowed for extra terminals, whilst in use benefits of the new sockets include positive switch contacts and the ease by which lids can be opened.

Finished in grey, this new Axiom range has full BSEN1363 approval for sockets plus BS EN0669 for switches and comes with a one year guarantee.

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In this review George Robertson, a trusted ‘product tester’ for our sister title PE, gets acquainted with the Essentials range of switches and sockets from MK Electric.

As a brand, MK has always been considered the ‘gold standard’ of wiring devices, so when I was offered the chance to try out the MK Essentials range I didn’t need much convincing. I’m pleased to say I wasn’t disappointed.

MK Essentials is a range of switches and sockets that feature the usual hallmarks of MK quality and flair but are designed for those jobs where a smaller budget might be available. This has resulted in a well-designed range of white, curved, screwless accessories that honestly wouldn’t look out of place anywhere you fit them.

Multi-purpose

The range has everything you might need: single and double switched or unswitched socket outlets, (with or without USB ports); cooker controls (single or double, with or without neon indicators); LED dimmers; round pin switch-socket and unswitched socket outlets; and a range of grid plus and euro modules.

I was particularly taken with the switches in both wide rocker and small rocker types, which offer up to four gang, two-way switches on a single back box plate. More to the point, they’re all quick, easy and a delight to fit. The cover plate simply flicks off the back unit but, once in place, this is held firmly in position by four robust pins, while the screw holes on the main body allow enough lateral movement to get the units positioned correctly every time.

MK may have designed these as a ‘budget’ range but they neither look nor feel that way when you’re fitting them. If I have one small gripe, it’s that MK didn’t provide me with all the units necessary to replace the switches and sockets that my other half suddenly decided needed to be changed at home after she’d seen the quality of the ones I fitted! 

Value

Having checked the pricing point of the Essentials range at my local suppliers, I was pleasantly surprised. Anyone who knows me well will realise this isn’t something I’d say in jest when it comes to spending my own money.

I’d seriously recommend that other electricians have a look at the Essentials collection, as they could easily become your ‘go to’ accessory range for the future.

At the very least you’ll have the confidence that everything you fit will not only match correctly and look good, but it will also have that MK cachet behind it.

To learn more about the Essentials range from MK, visit: https://www.mkelectric.com/en-gb/Products/Pages/MK-Essentials.aspx

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