FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating one exemplary method 200 for operating the bi-directional non-contact separable wiring device power transfer system 100. It should be understood that the order of the steps illustrated in method 200 could vary. Additional steps may also be added to the control sequence and not all of the steps may be required. As illustrated in FIG. 2, method 200 includes establishing communication between the first electrical device 110 and the second electrical device 115 (at block 210). For example, a Bluetooth? connection, a Zigbee? connection, or some other suitable wireless communications method, may be established between the first electrical device 110 and the second electrical device 115 to facilitate communication between the first electronic processor 120 and the second electronic processor 150. The wireless communication between the first electrical device 110 and the second electrical device 115 using Bluetooth?, or other such wireless communication, is referred to herein as “out-of-band communication.” In some embodiments, an “in-band communication” based on modulating signals provided to the first coil 145 and the second coil 175 may be established instead of the out-of-band communication. In these embodiments, the first transceiver 130 and the second transceiver 160 may not be required or may be modified accordingly.