Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Powermesh!
April 02, 2019
The Double Power Point with Super Powers
Trader’s Powermesh double power point has many features and benefits for your customers. We love hearing all the examples you come up with and the opportunities that they can then offer your customers. Here’s a few we thought we’d share!
Ever left the house and had the feeling you’ve left something on? The girls in the Trader office use this example all the time – the infamous hair straightener! But of course it could be the iron, heater or even the electric blanket. With the Zimi Cloud Connect, your customers can use the Zimi App to access Powermesh switches remotely, this will allow them to check if in fact it was left on, and if so, simply turn it off. No stress, no worries, no need to return home.
Perhaps your customer has a holiday home that they rent out. If the home has Wi-Fi and a Zimi Cloud Connect, your customer can remotely turn off appliances when no guests are occupying the residence and turn back on as required. Turn on the fridge the day prior to ensure it’s cold for the arrival of guests. Another popular holiday home function is the ability to remotely turn on a small hot water system that plugs into a power point, so hot water is available prior to guest’s arrival, without wasting excess power by having it continually run.
The scheduling functionality available offers endless opportunities! 
Parents arguing with their kids to get off the Xbox or PlayStation, is a common occurrence in households around Australia every day. Control the power supply to gaming consoles by setting a schedule to turn on and off at programmed times.
If you consider yourself a coffee aficionado and have an automatic coffee machine, fire it up ready for your morning coffee hit, again by setting it to turn on just before your alarm clock goes off and have it turn off after you’ve left for work.
There’s nothing better than getting into a warm bed – schedule an electric blanket to come on before you hit the sack and then to turn off so you don’t get too hot! Then schedule it to turn back in the early hours of the morning. You can actually set up 16 schedules per device! Even better, schedule the heated towel rail to come on at the same time, so you have the luxury of warm towels after a shower during winter!
Install a Powermesh enabled power point into a weatherproof box or shed, if convenient, to operate a 10A pool pump, either using the Zimi App to control on/off functionality or schedule the pump to run for a certain period, each day, perhaps during non-peak power usage times.
Set garden lighting to turn on, for those who arrive home after dark and for added security.
As long as the appliance or product has a latching switch, it can be operated via the Zimi app. Recommend the Zimi Cloud Connect so your customers can unlock the convenience of operating these appliances with voice commands through Google. Watch an example of a kettle turning on using a simple voice command!
Why not set up a scene in Google for your customers with a simple voice command of ‘Hey Google, night time entertaining’. Your customers can impress their guests by programming it to turn on water features, garden lighting, outdoor heaters, the television or automatically play preselected music by adding Spotify to their Google Home device. Check out some more scenes in action!
The Powerlock feature has some great benefits, particularly offering safety and security to families with young children. It can also be practical in retail and public spaces where power may not necessarily be required by patrons for example a Library – management may only want certain power points available to visitors during the day so the Powerlock function can be utilised during business hours. A schedule can be created to have them turned on after hours for cleaners to access, then turn backed off at a selected time, with the outlets returned to Powerlock mode.
We all know energy costs keep increasing. Customers can track energy costs in real time, by adding their per kWh electricity price to the Zimi App. They can also monitor energy use on particular appliances like fridges. Why not recommend they monitor their entertainment area eg. TV, BluRay, Soundbar etc to see how much standby power is being used by these devices – if it’s a large amount, they can easily turn these off each night via the Zimi app on the customers device, avoiding the need to reach awkwardly behind entertainments units where power points are generally installed.
Take a look at this recent story on Today Tonight where one Contractor is using Powermesh and the Zimi App to show which appliances are drawing lots of power and solutions to reduce their energy bills. Don’t forget the Powermesh power points will also indicate when an appliance is drawing over 500W by the Powermesh logo on the power point pulses green.
We’ve just scratched the surface of examples a Powermesh double power point can offer – discover more at www.zimi.life
*Some of the examples provided will require a Zimi Cloud Connect and Wi-Fi in order to access the functionality.
Passion Flexibility Partnership
Testimonials
I wanted to thank you and of course Simon for the awesome evening at the recent WA Trader Unboxed event. I found it quite liberating that companies like Trader are big enough to offer top products yet small enough to engage so personally.
I am blown away by Powermesh and have ordered a few bits to sample - reckon this is going to be a game changer for my business.
If you see Simon please convey my thanks for a great evening at the Saint last night. Thanks
Colin le Roux
COLCOM Electrical
Finally someone’s prepared to take on board the needs/wants of the contractors. Trader lead the way with new design making the humble ‘surface socket’ easier and faster to use.
The Trader brand has been a real bonus to the electrical field. Especially, can I highlight the HYPP1GF (surface socket). These are perfect for retrofitting existing lighting where you pull out old downlights or changing over from a batten holder to downlight etc. The terminals are all in a row with a well thought insulation barrier which must be ‘clicked in’ before you can fit the base. Then there’s the ‘easy fit’ base. When I say easy fit, it’s easy to fit and to take off again should you need to. (hopefully no more screwdrivers through my hand trying to remove bottom plates etc). They easily fit through a normal downlight cut out, so you can work from a ladder instead of having to go in the roof, even with a few cables and cable ties attached etc. Circuit identification is becoming more and more important. Trader realise this and have added space on the front of the socket outlet to 2 – IPA labels visible even with a plug in the socket.
Thanks and well done Trader and I look forward to more great products in the future.
Gary Hill
A&G Electrical Group Pty Ltd
Just wanted to say a massive thank you to Adam Boston from Adelaide. He is a fantastic tech support and really appreciate his professionalism toward my project I had up here at Barham.
Matty Veitch
Echuca
Can I take the opportunity to thank everyone for their help and to point out that quite literally EVERYONE I speak to or communicate with at Trader are friendly, accommodating, and generally great people without exception. It is so nice to work with a company that has a heart and genuinely cares. I look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with Trader as we build together.
Grant McQuinn (Branch Manager)
AWM Dandenong
Had a great solution for a customer recently ...
They had just had a pool built, they had to put the pump house in a certain area. It was a decent distance from being handy especially for the pool lights
... anyway we installed a Powermesh double power point, which had the pump in one side and lights in the other. That enabled us to set schedules on the pump and we put a powermesh light switch inside that was behavior linked to the other side of the GPO.
And just like that you can control it from the entry to the pool, via google and the app!
Perfect results!
Stephen field
Haymans Electrical Wholesale Manager
I am new to the industry and have had quite a few large quote requests lately for Trader items.
There has also been a growing interest into the automation, Zimi, technology and I found the information provided last night (Trader Unboxed Trade Show) to be very beneficial and will assist me greatly to do my job and support my customers request and enquiries – as well as some of my own purchases.
Thanks again to the gentlemen for last night, and all who assisted arranging the information evening. It’s always good to leave somewhere having gained knowledge and knowing my time was well spent - not wasted.
Danielle Campbell
L&H
"Hi Trader Team,
Aaron here from Redline Electrical. I thought you would appreciate this great feedback!
Thanks to Trader’s Powermesh, we were able to create multi-way switching to replace an underground cable fault without undertaking costly repairs to our client.
We installed both internal and external Powermesh switches, and created new 2- way switching to a Powermesh power point (via Behaviour Link) for garden lighting.
This also enabled our client to schedule timing for their garden lights and ability to have control via their mobile phones which blew our client away! Great product!”
Aaron Bateman
Redline Electrical
As the company owner I have insisted we use Clipsal from day one, as I have always opted for quality equipment. I noticed your Trader products not long ago, and reluctantly broke the habit to try a box of your Puma double GPO’s. Since then I have now ordered and installed a number of your trade packs in our housing development work. I have installed your products in our high end residential jobs, including your new dimmers, and am looking forward to trying out your buffalo range with our industrial clients.
From a tradesmans point of view your products are second to none, you have fixed any minor issues your competitors still hadn’t, you have listened to the market and created something we have all been asking for. Fantastic!
We have also had clients commenting on how impressive the dimmers are. I am pleased to say you have earned our business and our stock is now Trader!
I hope the feedback is welcomed, and please keep doing what you guys are doing.
Jarryd Schubach
JCS Electrical
