okay then it's my great pleasure to introduce to the channel Dan from DSS Electrical thanks
dan for coming upstairs pleasure so behind us we've got a live audience and we're going to
have a live review looking at some of these Collingwood products that you've fitted or
haven't fitted and will be fitting in the future so let's give them a cheer
so we've just come off lee's tech talk about some of these products and and
you're using them hands on most days of the week you're using Collingwood lighting so
if we go through some of the things you've fitted and perhaps you can discuss where you fitted
them and how easy they were except absolutely yeah so we've got the IP and i love this IP68
LED strip yes and i think it's part of their essentials range so it's not a very expensive
product so this is affordable improvements to your garden line but we're not called in garden
like what we're calling it no landscape lighting okay thank you for the question
so you said you fitted some of this yeah yes yeah absolutely we fitted we actually fit this in um
we work for a garden company in Cambridge and we tend to fit it in uh pergolas in people's gardens
okay so just to explain what a plug there is to the audience we're talking a timber frame
in the garden yes yeah yeah so and yeah so so then from there we recessed the strip um colin would do
a sort of a plastic track that we recess in and then this clips into the plastic track
and then from there we drill this through the end of the pergola and then connect onto the driver
okay and do you normally mount the driver in an IP ready box yes in an IP rated box at the end
at the end of the pergola sort of normally on the side that you can't see from the
from the main part of the garden okay so so that's and that's really tactile in it
however once you cut it it doesn't remain ip68 it changes i'll be writing down two ip65 yeah okay so
do you try and keep it in a winner or you're not bothered whether you cut it or not we
generally pergolas are normally about a meter wide so with this kit you can i don't know if you can
buy them in a meter length i can't remember the ones we get are in a meter length kit
so we generally make it to that length and they're individually driven alley they are every single
one individually driven yeah okay so and again i think another good aspect of those if you had say
um an outside spa turbo hot tub this is a fixed one again that would give a lovely looking
lighting uh display around that yeah absolutely it's a nice sort of ambient light it's not
too bright so um yeah it's perfect for sort of seating areas things like that and you're finding
as people are looking you know maybe they've made all the home improvements are you looking
that more and more people are trying to extend their lives out into the garden through lighting
yeah absolutely and i think even with something as basic as sort of outdoor seating and things like
that that makes our job a lot easier because we can light more areas people are building pergolas
and things like that so anything that people build these days you can light and with sort of
the range of products you've got here in front of us it just makes our job a lot easier so i i like
that one really really lightly and i think lee's going to leave that with us so we've got this one
here yeah okay so we've got the the spiked garden light and again just to reiterate because this is
a different video i don't recognize the colors anymore i've got a red and black on the end here
what is that telling me down so this tells you that you need to connect one of Collingwood's
drivers to this you can't connect that straight to mains okay so again are you looking at burying a
box in the garden adjacent to the the actual spike itself so we'll try and keep as much of the flex
on the light fitting as we can that way it can be moved around the garden which is a great thing
with these products and what i've found in the past is if you light a bush say in the winter okay
when your garden lightning probably comes into its most because you're gonna have it on for longer
periods of time um then over the season it gets more or less full of shrubbery et cetera then in
the winter summer it changes yeah absolutely and we've actually got the ability to move this spike
opposed to a ground light which is fixed in place which you can't do that okay so we're
lighting this part and then we're lighting that part and we're moving it with a line somewhere
we've buried something in the ground we've actually got you know it there permanently
yeah so the drive is fixed normally in a uh in an ip rated box preferably on a spike or fixed
to a fence something like that so it's easily accessible okay rather than sort of burying
them in the group you've said fixed to a fence there'll be somebody now saying is that a fixed
structure and if the fed's blew over another thick structure we'll go with and have you fit any of
these before yeah absolutely yeah they're sort of the main staple of our um our gardens they do a
version with a cowl on it as well which gives you a slightly more directional light okay so
so almost like the the funnel around a dog's head yeah absolutely yeah
yeah injured itself yeah okay they're good i like those as well i haven't got the sort of garden
where i can take those away i'm afraid you'll be taking that one with you if we carrying on well
let's have a look at a spotlight yes again so if i look at the spotlight from electrician's point of
view i recognize the cable colors now so what does that mean straight domains for this one so the
drive is actually built into the fitness yes yeah okay and we've got a floodlight that can be fixed
onto obviously the outside of a flat surface like so okay but often the light doesn't want to
necessarily be projected forward sometimes light needs to be projected away from the area in which
it's actually fixed or the garden changes yeah absolutely yeah and people are finding that like
say with with garden furniture people are moving stuff around a lot more these days and nothing
seems to be permanent these days people sort of change their mind even after six months yeah
so having the ability to like you say move this light fitting around is is fantastic so what we've
got is we've got a plate and this takes a little bit of i think a correction in the mine doesn't it
yeah absolutely we've got a plate here folks that we obviously fixed to the wall okay so that goes
in the back section there and we'll be firmly on the back wall like so however if i want to start
bringing my light to one side or the other we rotate it don't we okay and then we can angle it
so we can now see we're not pointing forward we're actually pointing off at the side okay
now that's going to take a little bit of a mindset as an electrician yeah so we're in that position
there we rotate it and tilt it we're now bringing light in a different direction as we go around
have you hit many of those no i haven't i'm taking this one away and i'm fitting this one so that
might be an adventure video in itself when gaz gets the tools back out so i'm gonna fit one of
those and see how they go and i may even choose to use this bracket as well okay so again if you
haven't fitted it let's see if you fit one of these then okay so these are the extreme range
yes what is this this is um what colin wood are proposing to use as their soffit lights
okay so as lee previously mentioned they are ip65 from below and from above whereas most down lights
are just just from below so they're not suitable for sort of soffits and things like that because
obviously moisture is going to be dragged in and out of the soffit through the air events within it
yeah absolutely so that's i think that's really clever and again if you've got say a vaulted
ceiling in a barn conversion where maybe there's a small uh boarded ceiling for the shower area
which is still open or vaulted above yes again the standard uh down lighters which are ip65 again
would be susceptible to moisture from the back yeah absolutely yeah absolutely so i think there's
another one well we've got this one this has got to make your life easier hasn't it so colin would
have telling me now that these are coming with the easy fit connector yes standard yes have
you fitted any with them as standard yet uh no i haven't we've actually got some in the office that
we do need to fit do you know why you haven't fit them yet because they're so new to market
we're one of the first people to see this yeah so they'll come on you down like this is a very
affordable downloader from Collingwood it's still going to come with the easy fit connector
okay and then we've got the ability to obviously wire to the other part of the easyfit connector
what's the advantage to you having this pre-wired hanging out the ceiling rather than having it
actually connected to the lightfoot it's just well one of the main things is testing so we
can do our sort of end to ends and dead tests on first fix so and then the painters can come in go
completely mad and then we can come in on a second fix we haven't got to get any tools out just plug
the down lights in and away you go yeah i think that's really crucial so for insulation resistance
testing we know as the students are all out there they know that all loads need to be removed okay
so we've obviously got to take these out these are hard wired into a connector that's a pain
and also you're right the decorating team sometimes it makes life hard for them because
obviously i'll cut around every fitting or the fitting's hanging out and we still have splash
don't we yeah that these are actually going to sit in your van until the ceiling is completed and all
your tests yeah pop them in okay that's i think that's again another simple idea and it's lovely
to see they've put them on all their fittings and they're not just keeping them to certain brands
absolutely yeah that's really good so that's that one what else have we got here we've got
anything else so we don't need to look at our garden lights so these things here this will be
wow yeah you hold it i'll drop it there's a bit of weight behind that so these are buried in the
floor is that correct yes or ah i should have checked with collingwood first okay recess that
way okay wow so we've done it yeah so we've done it yeah we've done it as a brick light a few times
they work really well and the good thing about the column ones is these clips actually do work okay
so so so you're telling me you drilled a hole in the brick yeah and then that was the fixing that's
it yeah yeah how would you get them back out quite easily just well if you've got fingernails
okay around the edge it literally does they do just pop out not so much so that they would fall
out but the whole size is sort of standard to a core drill bit so it's easy enough to even thought
about that yeah absolutely there's some weight behind that and then yeah some quality product
that's not a cheap light no okay but you get what you paid for yeah absolutely and you can put it in
and just forget about it really like there's no maintenance on it nothing like that so it's good
and again because we've got the standard cable colors we know that the driver must be built into
the actual fitting itself or transformer we're going to call it and again we can just hard wire
those in yeah and they've got the smaller version as well i like these ones yeah little cute ones
again same thing i've used these yes yeah little marker lights yep
so with these ones you do need a driver and they are wired in series so what we tend to do
is we'll wire each one individually if we have to extend them we use one of colin woods ip rated gel
inline connectors okay and then just extend them back to a ip rated junction box and are these the
ones are going to be wrong now this is live so are these the ones i've seen you drilling and putting
them in decking are these yes yeah they're the ones yeah they're the ones but i believe these are
their new marker lights because the old-style ones were an open face so people were saying there was
a bit too much glare okay so we've got software so that's what those are for yeah and again
really really nice so as people develop their wiring systems within their house they're actually
developing warrant systems without and it's one of the key areas that you specialize in in Cambridge
yeah that's the thing i knew you for on youtube yeah is the fact that you were doing garden light
and nobody else really wasn't yeah no it's it's i don't want to say a lucrative industry but we've
sort of got a name for it in Cambridge so um and it's nice because we can suggest products like
this and the good thing about Collingwood is you can see it all on their website
and you can get samples out you can have a look at it and like say once you've picked up a product
you know they're worth the money sort of things so everything i've touched today
you know it wouldn't float off the table wouldn't it no no it's not going anywhere
so we'd like to thank dan cheers dan for coming in okay so good luck damn