Planning for Spring

For a few weeks now I have been talking to (emailing) the extremely patient and helpful Martin Butler of Small World Products Ltd discussing his great lighting system.  He had read my article about my frustration with removing and replacing pins on the plugs which come with the round wiring system and suggested I might like his system better.  I do before I even use it.

The solution to my frustration is his Power Centre (SW01&SW01S).  This is the basic component of the system.  It connects the wires from the lights and fires etc to the transformer/power supply via ten pairs of screw terminals.  So instead of removing a plug, threading the wire through a hole in the house and reconnecting the plug to shove it in the wibbly wobbly power strip all you do is cut off the plugs, thread through your hole, strip the wires a little and and connect to a simple terminal.  No more dancing round the room with plug pins in your teeth.

There is also a power centre with individual switches (as shown in this (bad!) photo) so you can turn things on and off individually at will if you want to.




This is a picture of the rest of the various bits of kit that I have as a starting point for Chocolat.  

I'm not talking about it in detail here as I will do that when I come to actually use it, but I wanted to give you a heads up about it in case you are about to buy your wiring system for your house.  Trust me - this is the way to go.

He has anything you could wish for any size project.  You decide what you want to do and there will be a way to do it - simply.

This set was intended for my American house - hence the American plug in the picture, but as that has been kicked into touch, it will now move on to Chocolat.

I never thought I would say this...... I am actually looking forward to doing the wiring!  Watch this space.

PS:  for anyone who is a bit girly about this stuff - and that includes me - don't be put off by it looking a bit electrical/technical - it isn't it is just that most of us don't mess with stuff that looks like this.  In a nutshell - you are replacing those nasty plugs and sockets with a simple bar of screws - open up a gap, insert the wire and screw it back down - just like you already do on the transformer connection - what could be easier?