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Switchboards & Fuse Boxes Sydney
- Do your circuit breakers regularly trip?
- Need an urgent switchboard installation or repair?
- Call Omega Services, your switchboard & fuse box specialists in Sydney!
Electrical systems in the past focused on power distribution and wiring protection instead of safety. Thankfully technology and Australian Standards have progressed from ceramic fuses, cotton wiring and standard circuit breakers. Today, circuit breakers protect wires, surge protectors save electronics and residual current devices save lives. Omega Services can install, repair and upgrade your power switchboard and wiring with latest, safest technology.
Switchboards & Fuse Boxes Sydney
- Do your circuit breakers regularly trip?
- Need an urgent switchboard installation or repair?
- Call Omega Services, your switchboard & fuse box specialists in Sydney!
Electrical systems in the past focused on power distribution and wiring protection instead of safety. Thankfully technology and Australian Standards have progressed from ceramic fuses, cotton wiring and standard circuit breakers. Today, circuit breakers protect wires, surge protectors safeguard your electronics and residual current devices save lives. Omega Services can install, upgrade your power switchboard and wiring with latest, safest technology.
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That's the Omega difference
We love what we do. Keeping your lights on, showers hot, toilets flushing and air conditioning running is what drives us every day. Our approach is simple, we do things the right way, not the easy way.
What can you expect?
- We show up on time
- We provide great service
- We are upfront about pricing
- We work safely
As licensed and insured Master Plumbers and Master Electricians with 30 years’ experience, you can be confident we’ll stand by our Lifetime Labour Guarantee.
Our team are presentable, clean and tidy. We’ll protect your home while we work and clean up before we leave, so you can relax.
Lifetime Labour Guarantee
Our workmanship is guaranteed for life.
In the unlikely event of a problem, we’ll make it right, at no charge!
Lifetime Labour Guarantee
Our workmanship is guaranteed for life. In the unlikely event of a problem, we’ll come and make it right at no charge!
Our Response To COVID-19
We are open for business and ready to serve your plumbing, electrical & air conditioning needs.
Our team is committed to your family’s safety and health, here is what we are doing to help in that regard. To start with, we monitor our own health, if one of our employees feels ill, they will see a doctor or clinic. When our team comes to your home they glove up, put on shoe covers, if you request, they will wear a mask.
All of our trucks are equipped with spray disinfectant, protective covers for areas when we are in your home for any length of time, each tech keeps his own set of tools and will disinfect them after each visit.
We have set in place a Covid-19 protocol. Before we come to your home, we send you an email listing some things you as the homeowner can do to limit (or in some cases eliminate) the need for us to come into the home. While it is not possible to cover all applications, there are many situations where with your help we can do a tuneup or maintenance, even some repairs, from outside the home. We have stopped shaking hands with a no contact policy is in place. We will try to stay 1.5m away from customers at all times.
Today, communication is vital to our business, please let us know if anyone in the home has been exposed and is under quarantine, or if they are under a doctor’s care for the virus. We will take special care to work with those situations.
On another note, we would be remiss if we did not mention the fact that we do other solutions to indoor air quality issues. We have filters that can take out over 99% of airborne particles, UV lights that can help destroy viruses, air sterilisers to eradicate germs that are found in homes, similar to hand sanitisers we are now using daily. Can these products and systems eliminate the Covid-19 Virus completely? Only if you live in a petri dish in a lab. But they can certainly help and go a long way to set up a healthy home. Just to be clear, we have offered and sold these products for over a decade. We have a limited inventory that we are offering at pre-corona virus pricing.
Switchboard repairs
In a favourable environment and regular maintenance, the estimated life of a standard miniature/moulded circuit breaker (MCB) is around 30 years. In reality, their life can be as much shorter than that.
Current wiring standards mean Residual Current Circuit Breaker with Overload Protection (RCBO) is the new standard in circuit breakers. They are so effective in preventing electrocution that they are now mandated by law with wiring standard AS/NZS 3000:2018.
Though legal in limited repair situations, beware of any electrician that uses MCBs. They are either they are cutting corners, aren’t licenced in NSW or aren’t up to date.
Switchboard upgrades
Your switchboard is the electrical ‘control panel’ of your homes electrical system. Older switchboards were never designed to take the high wattage loads the modern household places on them.
To get more power for air conditioners, cooktops, hot water systems and extensions people added additional wiring, enclosures and circuit breakers. Most people’s switchboard is a risky mashup of analogue meters, smart meters, ceramic fuses, enclosures and unlabelled MCBs.
Upgrading your switchboard is the number one thing you can keep your family safe from electrocution and electrical house fires.
Ceramic fuses and fuse boxes
Ceramic fuses have a distinctive look, the fuse block is about the size of a lighter, white, glossy and holds a single wire or ‘fuse’ which burns apart if overloaded.
Each fuse requires a wire that matches its rating, it isn’t unusual to see fuse blocks with thicker wire, assumedly a past occupant didn’t want to visit the store and used what they had.
Fuses like this are the perfect storm for electrical house fires when loaded.
From an electricians point of view, ceramic fuses still work as designed but offer no protection from electrocution.
It has been decades since this technology met Australian Standards, if you still have ceramic fuses, it is time to upgrade.
Why won’t my circuit breaker reset?
There are a few reasons that a circuit breaker won’t reset, including:
- It wasn’t reset correctly: Some brands of circuit breakers have three positions, on, off and tripped. Due to the short distance, it is pretty easy to get the wrong position, flick the breaker off again and make sure it is all the way on.
- The circuit is still overloaded: If the breaker was overload and all the appliances are still plugged it will trip instantly. Unplug the appliances and try again.
- You have a short circuit: If all your appliances have been unplugged, you probably have bare wires touching somewhere causing a short circuit. You want to get an electrician to look at this ASAP.
- Your circuit breaker has failed: Circuit breakers are spring-loaded safety item for your house and family. With age, they start tripping during normal use and need to be replaced.
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Our electricians will give you a call when they are 30 minutes away, we strive to be on time, every time.
All work is backed by our Lifetime Labour Guarantee. If our work doesn’t meet Australian Standards, we will come back and make it right at no charge to you.
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