I sure did. I wish I had before and after pics but my house had the standard 12x8x3 or so cable box and I had 10 wall jacks + 4 LNB feeds + the cable TV hookup from the street terminating in. That's 15 coax terminations!
Now the Voom guy comes along and adds a 4 way multi-switch + a HUGE OTA amp.
The box would barely close with all the cables inside. With the addition of the multi-switch / OTA AMP the Cable box's lid would only go on about half way.
The installer told me about this of course and I asked him to just do whatever he could to get me by until I could find a bigger cable box which turned out to be quite the task to find. I checked the local hardware stores (Ace / Home Depot / Lowes / grainger / etc) and all they had to offer were VERY expensive waterproof junction boxes or circuit breaker boxes which I could have gutted and used but that was again an expensive option.
After some extensive googling I found this at http://www.hometech.com/:
Inside View
It's part number GC-11MDEGY under Enclosure Boxes.
It only cost $16.95 w/7.95 shipping (CA --> PHX).
Outside dimensions (including hinges and tabs): 12"(W) x 18 1/4"(H) x 3 3/4"(D)
Usable Inside Dimensions: 10"(W) x 17"(H) x 2"(D)
This easily organized my wiring dilema. Inside the box it has some stand-offs to mount your multi-plexer / whatever which I did.
My only complaint is the the door on the front feels kind of cheap. I can most definately live with it
.
Shawn
Now the Voom guy comes along and adds a 4 way multi-switch + a HUGE OTA amp.
The box would barely close with all the cables inside. With the addition of the multi-switch / OTA AMP the Cable box's lid would only go on about half way.
The installer told me about this of course and I asked him to just do whatever he could to get me by until I could find a bigger cable box which turned out to be quite the task to find. I checked the local hardware stores (Ace / Home Depot / Lowes / grainger / etc) and all they had to offer were VERY expensive waterproof junction boxes or circuit breaker boxes which I could have gutted and used but that was again an expensive option.
After some extensive googling I found this at http://www.hometech.com/:
Inside View
It's part number GC-11MDEGY under Enclosure Boxes.
It only cost $16.95 w/7.95 shipping (CA --> PHX).
Outside dimensions (including hinges and tabs): 12"(W) x 18 1/4"(H) x 3 3/4"(D)
Usable Inside Dimensions: 10"(W) x 17"(H) x 2"(D)
This easily organized my wiring dilema. Inside the box it has some stand-offs to mount your multi-plexer / whatever which I did.
My only complaint is the the door on the front feels kind of cheap. I can most definately live with it
.Shawn
