Timers & Controls Standing the test of time
When specialist time switches and heating controls supplier, Sangamo, was acquired by Scolmore Groupearlier this year, the aim was to bring this new product category under the ESPumbrella. Mark Robinson (pictured), product director with Sangamo, explains the options they provide for electrical wholesalers to offer their customers.
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angamo’s range of time switches and heating controls are more widely and readily accessible to customers
through the electrical wholesale channel aſter its Scolmore acquisition. This is great news for wholesalers, who will now have a new range of products to sell on to their customers from a brand that has customer support at the root of its continued success. At a time when smart homes and the internet of things seems to be dominating the sector, not all electricians, or homeowners, are confident embracing this new technology. Wholesalers have a great opportunity to help their customers add to their income stream by selling the benefits of the products in this sector.
UK manufacture
Sangamo was first established in the UK in 1921 and has been manufacturing time switches at the Port Glasgow factory for over 65 years. Today, the company offers a wide range of time switches and heating controls for domestic, commercial and industrial use. These products will now sit alongside ESP’s growing range of CCTV, Access Control, Fire Protection, Emergency Lighting and Essentials products. The company’s Round Pattern Time Switches
and Powersaver Controllers are both fully manufactured in the UK by an experienced production team. Sangamo guarantees its full range of time switches and heating controls for five years from the date of manufacture – providing customers with reassurance that their products can be installed and used with complete confidence.
Round pattern time switches With over 11 million units sold to date, the installation of a Sangamo Round Pattern Time Switch (RPTS) used to be a regular job for many electricians. Despite the electro-mechanical time switches being less common today, the company still reports sales of thousands of units each month, both as replacements and as brand new installations.
The Sangamo RPTS is trusted by installers for a wide variety of applications, not just because of its reliability but its ease of use. The switches are split into four categories each containing both three-pin and four-pin connections: ●Basic ‘black dial’ 24-hour time clock for simple on and off switching of up to 20A
●Standard 24-hour ‘red dial’ switch with added 100 hour battery reserve to keep the switch in time if any power outage occurs.
●Solar Range - specially designed for lighting applications. The Astro/Suntracker switches automatically adjust themselves to follow sunrise and sunset times without the need for a photo sensitive cell.
●Digital Range - the newest addition combines the high capacity and reliability of the electro- mechanical models but provides full 7 day programming. Sangamo’s Product Director, Mark Robinson, comments: “We regularly hear from people with Round Pattern Time Switches still going strong after 40 and 50 years. When they eventually need a new switch they reasonably assume, because of its age, that it might not be possible to get a direct like for like replacement. However, because the original design has never needed to be updated, an RPTS you buy today is completely interchangeable with one bought decades ago.”
DIN Rail and Panel Mounted Time Switches Sangamo also offers a range of DIN rail and panel mounted digital time switches that include NFC capability. Near Field Communication (NFC) is a low powered wireless communication technology that allows devices to exchange information from just a few centimetres away.
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