Training issues

I have been trying to get onto a basic training course for over 2 years. There has always been something stopping me, mainly the cost of the course ($990), or the timing. At last I had the funds, and the time right, so I submitted the appropriate forms, did the online course, downloaded all the literature I could, and even downloaded the C-Bus toolkit program ready for the course. I even paid for the course. This all took place on July 28, 2007. I've just been informed that I cannot get into a course until November 2007, and I was only informed of this because I rang them to confirm my position on next month's course.
I have just spent the past 3 weeks wiring up an extension ready for C-Bus, and now I won't be able to connect it until November, because I won't be trained to do so! How do you inform a client about this?
I have since cancelled my training, as by the time the course was run, the job would have been connected and running (maybe). Maybe I could programme the setup on my own, and maybe I couldn't. I'll never know, as I won't be installing a C-Bus system anymore.

 

Are you for real ?

That's like not eating food then blaming the rest of the world that you are losing weight.

It's your loss - sorry to see you won't enjoy this interesting and challenging technology.

 

Turtle, I can understand your frustration, but unfortunately not everything in life goes the way we want it to.

May I suggest that you setup your C-Bus equipment with your sparky doing the mains parts of it all, and once its all connected, you can set it up in a basic configuration, using learn mode, etc. There are tons of tutorials on the CIS website, and an ENORMOUS amount of great advice on this website. It should be more than enough to guide you through each step of doing a basic install.

Then once you are able to do the training in November, you can take everything you have learnt, and put it to good use by improving and experimenting further with your network. There is nothing holding you back from playing with the system before you do the training, and by learning the basics of the system by "playing" with it yourself, you will be all the better prepared to absorb all that you possibly can during the training.

Good luck with your network, and good luck with the training, once you get into it, you'll never look back

Darpa

 

Turtle, where are you based - maybe another installer can help until you are up and running, it would be a pitty to loose a CBus install. It seems a little daunting at first, but it only takes one install and your off. We had the same problem with training and ended up doing courses in Townsville, Melbourne and Brisbane, in the space of 6 weeks but it was worth it in the long run.