In store tag price $25, rings up at $10 as advertised on web. Overall these RF mains switches are getting rare with WIFI taking over. Closest equiv is $58 "click" brand in Bunnings. Many not Auz approved or certified devices on e-bay scare me. (Bargin is value for money, just purchased 2 off for $20)
i have a few at home and i need to check this for sure.
Probably better power usage than a Wifi device though.
These are quite good. Box says <1W and I'm seeing about half that.
OP please mark deal as expired - Its sold out!
Website is still reporting stock at multiple stores.
the 6 outlets version with remote is also $10 each with free shipping.
Maximum order is 2.
http://www.supercheapauto.com.au/Product/SCA-Powerboard-w-Re…
Delivery is coming up as $9.95 delivered to 4012 for 2 for me. I've got a few $ credits to use by tomorrow so something to play with so I'm going to go down to the local store and take a look.
Odd. Mine popped up as free shipping - Freight $0.
Just purchased 2 and came to total of $20.
When I selected 3 it said out of Stock and to remove from Cart.
After purchasing 2. I added 2 more to see if that worked. It added successfully.
I bet they have 2 in the warehouse, and the stock update isn't quite real time after your purchase, so you probably bought the last 2.
Cheers :)
Got 2 with free delivery (and used credit on it too lol)
Can you even run two at a time though? Often there's no coding (or security) so you wouldn't be able to select which device is switched. Does look like there's enough buttons on the remote at least unless one button for on and one for off but without separate buttons you won't know remotely if you sent an on or off command…
Looks like 10 buttons on the remote, but they are numbered 1-5. And if I'm not mistaken, the word "Learning" is written under the "On/Off" LED.
They are numbered 1 to 4 and G on/off so you can programmed 4 devices and then G for group switches all devices programmed on that remote.
You can also program 2 or more devices to the same button I've found. The device just learns the code sent by the remote and also responds to the G buttons.
I've not tested a second remote for interference but it seems the remotes have some sort of uniqueness to prevent that.
There we have 4 buttons but only 3 receivers. Can we look at buying another or few more receivers somewhere else? I have 1 set this but now could not buy another because stock is out everywhere.
This and the six outlet one are both coming up as sold out.
http://www.supercheapauto.com.au/Product/SCA-Powerboard-w-Sw…
6-Outlet switched is $8, but can't tell if that's on special or not
this could be operating on 433mhz frequency. good for newbie who is interested on home automation if you have raspberry pi
They are indeed on 433
Purchased two for $20 delivered free. The link directs to the one with 4 sockets. Here is the one with 6 sockets with same price. Thanks OP!
http://www.supercheapauto.com.au/Product/SCA-Powerboard-w-Re…
6 outlet sold out online - did a click n collect - thanks OP
Yes I did same. Good deal.
Just out of curiosity, what do people use this for. i have one of those free power board that turn off the plugged in appliances after a set period of time. can't figure why I need one for.
I'm intending to use in some home automation running a water feature pump and lighting.
Good for controlling things like baby monitors and security cameras that you might not want on all the time. Or power hungry devices that are hard to access.
We use for Christmas trees - one in the front and one in the back of house.
Click - everything on, Click, everything off without having to walk to the other end of the house.
I like the Christmas decoration idea :)
For me, my router / modem are in the roof, I needed a non-wi fi remote to cycle power without going up there when there is a glitch.
The good feature of these appears to be that they retain their state when power fails. So in the event of a blackout the modem will restart without intervention.
The roof is an interesting place to be putting the modem. Hope there is adequate insulation/fireproofing near where you put it. Routers/Modems get quite hot and a house fire wouldn't be something I want to experience.
I thought about putting mine in the roof as there is a number of positives, but the main downside is the heat in summer as you say.
Remotely power cycle my home server
Switch the aquarium lights on for a bit, when it's dark
Switch my workgroup MFC off when it hasn't been used for a while (pulls quite a lot of standby power and often doesn't get used for days) then power it on again when needed
Switch pool filter/pump on only as needed (according to time of year, weather and UV), with remote manual override (in case pool warming needed before I get home)
Switch bedroom TV/lamp on 5 mins before kick off, and 5 mins after final whistle, when my (EPL) football team is playing midweek (= somewhere between 1am-6am local)
Turn the lawnmower on during the night, for a duration corresponding to how much the neighbours' dogs have barked during the day.
All sorts of possibilities.
A couple of each left at Nundah. Packaging is huge.
Ticketed at $20 and $25 but scanned at $10 / each. -$5 credit that was going to expire = $7.50 each for me.
Not 100% what I'll use them for just yet. Might attempt to modify one with a cheap Wifi ESP8266 board or similar.
Work well enough but are too large to fit two side by side on a double GPO.
Supposedly have unique combinations so you can run more than 4 units at once (remote has 4 on/off button pairs).
My power meter indicates 0.4 if on and 0.6W power consumption if off. I presume the intention being the device would be on more often than off so they used the NC contacts for the output. Somewhat smart.
Pulled my remote, single outlet and 4 way board apart. They are cheap and made to a price but the boards are clean and reasonably well soldered (all shiny joints etc). Relay is rated to 12A at 250V although I generally wouldn't want a 2400W/10A load running on something like this.
The module in the single output and the powerboard are the same PCB. The powerboard is quite chunky and is plastic extrusion rather than two halves. Wierd for a powerboard these days.
Great investigative journalism shonky! Are they using 433mhz?
Yes 433.92MHz.
It says Sold Out after adding to cart :(
sold out of 4/6 rf and switch powerboard
Depends where. Still showing in stock in a few places new me (4012) and for online purchases.
Nope for online it shows available but after adding to cart it says sold out
As a sample of stores showing stock in Brisbane.
6 outlet
Cannon Hill
Nundah
Enoggera
Underwood
Capalaba
4 outlet
Cannon Hill
Nundah
Taigum
Damn, no stock left in stores near Sydney city.
Willing purchase one if someone realise they don't really need it - even if it's just the remote and a single :)
Just bought four of the 6+2 ways, pickup from Malaga store in WA (couldn't find any other stock NOR). Had to do four purchases of 1 each though. Try for 2, it says none in stock. Strange that it then sells 4 individually. Wouldn't be surprised if at least some of the orders end up not being fulfilled.
So if anyone else is trying to order I'd say persevere as their ecommerce system is rubbish. Try with 1 unit first. Favour pickups instead of delivery (I couldn't get stock for delivery, despite being able to do a store pickup that's near me). Expect to be continually told there's no stock during the order process, but you can go back and reselect the same store (with stock) that you started with and get there in the end. Took me half an hour just to snag the first one. We'll see if it was time wasted.
For those who get them and plan to interface with a controller (eg. Rasp Pi) can you update here with your progress? I'm thinking home automation too. Perhaps I'll have it automatically switch my life support machine off if my football team is in the bottom 3 (again) at Easter.
UPDATE: got call from Malaga. Turns out they had none at all, but Ellenbrook had 3 6+2s (snagged by me) and 5 4+2s (one snagged by me). So still 4 $+2s left.
This page is what you need to read, NeBlackCat…
http://wiki.beyondlogic.org/index.php?title=Reverse_engineer…
Great stuff - off to read it now. Thanks again.
Same for Joondalup C&C, though I ordered just one. No stock so they are delivering instead from another store.
Always surprises me that those who state they have purchased the deal and the most verbal supporters of the deal haven't upvoted it?
Thanks OP
Thanks for the reminder, I'd forgotten.
Haha, no worries. It was a reminder to all those that viewe the deal and got one or wished they had got one to click the green button. I forget too often as well
Probably the stock system isn't real-time (common for enterprises that use SAP), the last value it had was 1. So you can order 1. It's just not built for rapid repeat orders of the same product. You can keep ordering the maximum the system thinks it has in stock until it gets the next stock update from the store. I'd expect your order refunded if you try and work around it by placing multiple small orders.
I guess they only deliver from a warehouse or larger stores, so store stock and delivery stock are likely kept separate. They probably don't want to be like Myer who once sent me an order in 5 different packages from 5 different stores including one from Mt Isa :o Bet that stretched their free freight to the limit!
For those who get them and plan to interface with a controller (eg. Rasp Pi) can you update here with your progress?
Well my update after getting one of these home is that I can't detect any signal from the remote and therefore can't control the sockets, using rcswitch and Arduino. This same method has worked for other brands. Anyone else had any luck??
Western Suburbs Melbourne NIL STOCK
Aren't these free in Victoria? Some government thing?!?
Yep. Here: http://switchon.vic.gov.au/more-ways-to-save/energy-saver-in…
That's something completely different.
It's…
No stock of either model near Parramatta in Sydney.
These are very similar to the Kambrook model, which looks like this:
http://wiki.beyondlogic.org/i/RF3399/RF3672.jpg
The Kambrook has a slide switch to select one of 4 channels, allowing 20 (rather than just 5) separate switches.
People have been reverse engineering these kinds of products and making them into simple home automation controllers.
Sorry meant to post this earlier and doubled up a comment. After trying these in action tonight it looks like they retain their operational state when power is removed - useful…
I'm a little confused by the picture. Can you switch the four sockets separately? Does it come with two additional single sockets or is that for something else?
I bought a similar single socket version form Bunnings but 4 sockets would be a lot better.
The distribution board switches all sockets together. The two additional sockets are independent for other single sockets, so all in all, three switchable devices. Looks like most of the stock was grabbed by the OzB's already though.
Oh well. That'll teach me not to read stuff properly.
Thanks for the post. Bit of a shame the strip sockets can't be independently switched.
So, got my order for 2x 6 outlet ones yesterday… except I got a 6 outlet and a 4 outlet Sigh
What makes it worse, is I got someone else's invoice! A Perth order as well, for 2x 6 outlet boards lol
Now to deal with their CS :/
Side note, the packets are huge! How they even thought to offer free delivery on these is just crazy!
Sometimes the power usage when idle for these products are quite scary.