General Electrical Information

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Solar power installations:

We can supply and install any type of solar power to your home, office or community building. Now is the perfect time to invest in solar power especially if you are eligible for the government rebate of $8,000.00 for a standard 1 kilowatt system.

Air Conditioning / Split systems:

Nick Oakes Electrical Services Melbourne are a supplier for Mitsubishi, Fujitsu, and Toshiba just to name a few named brands at a competitive rate with full installation. Installation includes hard wiring to your switchboard so there are no ugly power points on the wall for all to see, all copper piping and we also provide wall brackets for the outside unit. All units are supplied with a Certificate of Electrical Safety.

New Wiring Installations:

Complete electrical wiring to brand new homes, renovations or existing dwellings. We will provide a home or office inspection before we quote as to give you the best advice on what you might or might not need.

Alterations, Additions and Repairs:

Would like something moved or changed, e.g. a new power point in the lounge or move the TV aerial point to another location - no job is to small.

Emergency Lighting:

A complete design of all your emergency and exit lighting. We can put in place a schedule preventative maintenance programme. We will ensure all work carried out complies to AS/NZS 2293:1995.

Testing & Tagging:

Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) legislation imposes a duty of care to provide a safe workplace. Failure to ensure the safety of electrical equipment may result in the death or injury of yourself, your employees or others. To discharge your duty of care you are required to reduce the risk of electrical shock as far as practicable. One method of achieving this is to ensure your tools, leads and appliances are tested for electrical fault on a regular basis.

Switchboards and Mains power upgrades:

Design & build custom and standard main switchboards with CT metering, distribution boards, pillar boxes with current limiter. Using local manufactured components, E.g. Circuit breakers, bus bar contactors, fault current limiters, relays, current transformers and so on.

Safety Switches:

It's now law that Safety switches be installed on new and upgraded installations.
Safety switches are designed to protect you and your family against electrocution from Active to Earth faults, which are the most common form of electricity fatality. They are not a simple fuse or circuit breaker and are designed to save lives.
A safety switch cuts off the power supply when the current to Earth exceeds 30 thousandths of an ampere, a miniscule amount when you consider that many power tools, portable heaters, and so on use up to 10 amperes.

Light & Power:

With a little planning, you can meet all your electrical requirements without blowing the budget. Down lights (with fire shields) supplied and installed, new power points supplied and installed, fans in each bedroom, exhaust fan in Kitchen, outdoor power points for a spa filter just to name a few.

Machinery & 3 Phase power:

Installation of different manufacturing machines and its associated electrics, Installation of cable trays-Stainless steal and or Galvinised, running of all types of cables to switchboards.

Data Cabling

We can supply data cabling for anything from a simple Home Network to a large Office Computer Network set-up with racking and patch panel etc. It is also possible to build a complete Home Network with integrated Voice, Data and Video. In particular this is becoming popular in many more modern homes by integrating home theatre with home computers and other network devices. In the near future more and more electronic home appliances and devices will be designed to interact with this

Home Network.