I vastly prefer a board because it allows for much better access and can be considerably better laid out. Unfortunately, in this day and age, people expect a silly little can and thus, cans go in almost every install. I've even started converting my home system over to an enclosure as it's sometimes used for "demos".
Oh! Oh! "silly little can"!!?? You do this for a living and your personal opinion on a protective, secure enclosure is as you stated? If people didn't want one, you would never consider installing them???I vastly prefer a board because it allows for much better access and can be considerably better laid out. Unfortunately, in this day and age, people expect a silly little can and thus, cans go in almost every install. I've even started converting my home system over to an enclosure as it's sometimes used for "demos".
What about dust and 'accidental' wire tampering?
That's right, if the client doesn't want the "protective" enclosure (that's funny), I don't sell it. Anymore, clients expect a can, though. I find them pretty ridiculous. Most rigs are installed in mech. rooms and the like. Aesthetics be damned. A well laid out board can be a thing of magnificent beauty. A can is a can is a can is a can. They bore me. Alarm panels typically stay in the can. Everything else, as I said, I want to mount to a board.Oh! Oh! "silly little can"!!?? You do this for a living and your personal opinion on a protective, secure enclosure is as you stated? If people didn't want one, you would never consider installing them???
I'm with CORT, I prefer the cans, the more the better. I ended up going with 4 CV 50" cans which will hold some of my equipment, the rest will be in a Middle Atlantic rack in the same room and cabling will run between the rack and the cans. I also have 3 28" cans (one on each floor) terminating my hardwired lighting system. Once it's all drywalled it's a nice clean install, IMO.
I'm with CORT, I prefer the cans, the more the better. I ended up going with 4 CV 50" cans which will hold some of my equipment, the rest will be in a Middle Atlantic rack in the same room and cabling will run between the rack and the cans. I also have 3 28" cans (one on each floor) terminating my hardwired lighting system. Once it's all drywalled it's a nice clean install, IMO.
Beautiful stuff CB... I'm a huge fan of big cans as well.