so gordon we're starting this video at the end of the video because we had such a busy day here
at the installer show we forgot to film the intro for this video we did and the other news will be
we've lost gary so we don't know where he is it's like a child wandering around in there
he's discovered the world of plumbing but fear not we've got some great electrical products that we
found at this show what we love when we come to a trade show is finding new brands and new products
and we found one here this Ratio EV Charger now ratio may be a new name to you but this has a
heritage for any electricians who've ever fitted some high quality thorlux lighting you can hear
the crowd in the background delighted about that um so this charger here has some difference and
it brings in that lighting heritage i've been to loads of ev charge point locations where the
lighting is absolutely horrendous you pull up there at night you don't know who's going to
leap out of the bushes as you try and plug in your car and that's why it's great to see manufacturers
thinking about that and integrating lighting within the product and this lighting unit here
is quality it's downward light distribution so it doesn't create any light pollution
and then we're into the charge itself nice slim unit you know an architect would appreciate this
at the front of a building where a lot of ev charge solutions when you put them together
may look a little bit agricultural what we like about this is the slim design two 22 kilowatt
charging points in there with the with a type 2 socket that we're used to seeing for ac charging
a great solution we're looking forward to seeing this coming to market hopefully you're thinking
the same as i am looking at this domestic and commercial one it reminded gordon of his younger
days back at home with mum and dad because he suggested i wasn't aware of this that this style
of lead here was used on phones believe it or not but what is a great idea isn't it because
obviously that lead will wrap round in one around the uv charging unit and allow you to extend it
out to the car making your life considerably simpler i said it was commercial and domestic
so we can have it as a single phase or a three-phase unit all the rcd protections
built within it as well as the PEN fault protection on the single-phase one with an upgrade to the
three-phase one to be built into this unit as well certain times so one product or service should
i say you're going to be hearing a lot about and this stand has been incredibly busy throughout the
show is Snap-IT now the easiest way to sum up snap it is deliveroo but for plumbing parts now don't
worry the stage electrician's electrical parts are coming soon but think of the problem itself
so you're on site and you've forgotten something that you need really quickly to finish the job
what's the alternative pop down to the wholesalers yes we know we like the free coffee down there
but this that means you can order the parts buy the app you pay snap it and the parts will be
delivered to you in ultra quick time so you can stay on the job now we have done a full video with
ceo and founder victor watch out for that coming along to find out some of the great features about
this service one thing electricians ask about all the time is electric vans we've got one here it's
the ford the new transit e so the transit you're very familiar with incredibly popular but gary's
found a special guest inside KIM you've told me more than once today we're going places and we're
in the Ford E transit how far are we going um well if we don't have any load nothing on and it's fully
charged we can expect approximately up to 197 okay so we perhaps not using the heater we've not got
the sat nav on okay we're not plugged our phone in and draining that battery we've got 197 miles but
we're fully loaded we've got a job to do together that back's got everything in it
as well i'm gonna charge that phone what's our range gonna be like this on um we can expect up to
a hundred miles okay hundred miles range in this i get to the location i'm thinking maybe i've turned
off that wi-fi router and maybe i wanna make myself a cup of tea is there any optional extras
that ford can do that we can pop into the back yes yes uh we can have up to two optional additional
sockets in the back outlets so we can go from from vehicle to load then up to about three kilowatts
yep that seems really handy that's another top feature isn't it so these are you know going to be
hot off the press we're going to need one of these transitions okay they're not going to allow us to
drive on it are they so i'm thinking how long is that waiting list to get one of these well you're
going to have to come in nice and early and allow up to 12 months or did we get our hands
but what if you're the clean court electrician what if you've got people who work for you and
you just want something to go around check up on carry a few small things to keep them busy on site
and this possibly where the mustang mackie comes on what a fantastic looking car now if you keep up
to date here on efix and especially on electrical news weekly our podcast you'll know that van crime
continues to be rife up and down the country and here's an interesting fact for you
62 percent of all van thefts and breaking occur outside your own home which is pretty remarkable
when you think about it so the vanguardian is one solution to this what we're looking at here is
uh the device without the cover on so we'll get a shot of that with the cover on and what this does
is it simply sticks onto the outside of your van it's got an incredibly adhesive back on there a 3m
adhesive that just sticks onto the back of your van and then that you can arm it with
this little fob and then if the van gets knocked or bumped or someone starts trying the handles
it'll trigger for two seconds it'll make a little warning sound to let the
intruder know that it's armed and then if the van gets knocked again or rattled or vibrated then it
will go into full alarm mode and it will hopefully scare away the person trying to break into the van
it's a really remarkable bit of kit it's really easy to change the batteries which lasts from five
to six months it's just a matter of taking the cover off with a special tool undoing the screws
and getting into the batteries to replace those and what's even better is there's an
additional product that you can buy that acts as a tracker with a one-off payment there's no
subscription fee and it responds to the noise made by this so if your van gets broken into
it'll trigger that tracker which will then trace the van if it gets stolen and it'll also alert
you on your mobile device to let you know that the alarm's going off this could well be a phenomenal
solution to a problem that continues to plague the electrical and all industries that involve vans
because here's another interesting fact the back of your van doesn't generally have an alarm in it
if the van comes with an alarm it's all in the cab not in the back where your expensive stuff is so
we think that is a really clever solution looking at Discrete Heat's Thermaskirt but before we get
to that, i'm sure the first thing you notice is this wonderful looking wet radiator now wouldn't
it be great if we could smuggle our heating into rooms i know what you're thinking straight away
underfloor heating smuggles in well that's not always an option that we can go for but we can
with maybe repurposing something we're used to using outside to keep pipes warm stopping and
bursting when we think about the trace heat tape and we've managed to smuggle that into the back of
this which effectively becomes the skirting board within the room so we electrically can heat that
room you might be saying well i don't want to electrically heat my room i want to stick with
water but maybe get away from these old radiators and that means you can use the other version
that actually allows us to insert the pipe work within these two slots in order that we can use
that radiant heat to heat the room i think it's a clever little idea and a beautiful way to get rid
of these ugly-looking radiators so our next find here at the installer show is this clever little
cavity fixing from Fischer this is a really clever bit of kit all you've got to do is just drill
your hole in the wall and then you push that bit there through and it springs out on the other side
giving you that locking mechanism to screw into it's got this tiny little hook on it that stops
it from spinning around inside the wall and then once you've got that securely in place you just
slide this bit down and into the fixing there and that allows you to get your screw in however
we know that nothing ever runs as smooth as we want it to so if it should so happen that you
can't get this all the way through the cavity and it stays sticking in like that you can actually
use that bit to screw in as well comes in two different sizes you've got an m10 hole which
fits an m5 screw or an m12 hole which fits an m6 screw or an m6 bolt i think that's a really handy
bit of kit over here at socket and see we've got the plug lock simple idea and aren't they often
the best ones safe isolation and proving dead is a key component of the efix channel we've
got cpds that cover it but this reminds me of my time when working in FE i had lots of 13 amp
plug tops and long flexes in in order to energize consumer units when we're working i was paranoid
that somebody would plug them in and liven up the other end but maybe not in that position maybe
you're working in the back of a fridge you've pulled out that appliance to do a repair and
the flexible lead is somewhere located wouldn't it be really easy to drop one of these on here
in order that you could secure the isolation process preventing anyone else turning it on
great idea so another service we found while we've been trawling around the shore is order
work so how does order work work was the question that i had and i've just found out so imagine
this product solves two problems the first one is somebody orders something like a smart thermostat
or a smart doorbell or even a speaker and we'll come back to that and they need it installing
if they've purchased and they're ready at the checkout they don't know how to fit the tech which
happens this is when order work comes in now they will arrange installation for you putting it out
to a network of contractors which is the second problem it solves if you're looking for more work
in terms of electrical installation and you fit smart thermostats and things like that
then you possibly need to register with order work i will put a link in the description
now we know we said that we've got seven products in this roundup but we found an eighth bonus one
and we just couldn't resist telling you about it this is a combined light fitting and speaker from
Zuma which is an absolutely brilliant bit of kit all you're going to see when this is in the
ceiling is this little disc here with the light in the middle and it's designed to make a really
sleek flat look to a ceiling so you don't have to have separate lights and separate speakers
sound bars messy wires everywhere you've just got the one integrated product you've got your light
source in here and also a really high quality speaker that's going to turn any space into a
fantastic room well we saw gary for a while but then we lost him again but if you really
like going to trade shows without having to go to trade shows then check out this video