He stayed with Yamaha for six years. As Peter said of his time at Yamaha , ‘I learnt a lot about hoe multiples work, buying and selling and that sort of stuff and I learnt a bit about electronics.’ But when Yamaha decided to re-structure their activities Peter opted for redundancy. There then followed a stint at EchoStar, a US-based manufacturer of satellite equipment. From there Peter spent a couple of years working as a consultant for the Franchise Centre in Manchester where he wrote franchising manuals and advised would-be franchisers and franchisees before going back into sales and marketing, working for a Danish company. when the company decided to relocate to south wales, peter again opted for redundancy. At this point he decided to take a career break, opting for a year out in which he studied for an MBA at Nottingham Trent University. It was while he was at university that peter revisited his prototype intelligent mains panel. For part of his course he had to put together a business plan for the introduction of a new product and his idea for an intelligent mains panel, in the form of a switchable extension block, seemed an ideal new product. For the business plan he had to investigate costings, product viability and the market for the product. By now relay technology had moved on apace, developments in electronics had caused relays to shrink dramatically in size, to the point where it was feasible for one to be fitted inside the extension block.