shenandoah75
Active Member
Some disclaimers:
1) ELK Products, inc. can not use these photos to void product warranties :huh:
2) members are prohibited from ignoring my posts just because they now see me as "unclean" or "impure" or "cocoon trash"
3) man does not live on HA alone - and when i am not, these areas are off limits to our guests!
Ok for starters, remember that i had an existing two story house and outbuilding. Original security was the Elk's forefather - a Moose unit. I purchased the elk before closing and the moose came out on the day we took ownership... Was weeks later before Elk was running.. Namely because i had to figure out a way to handle the wiring. Prior wiring had half the house wiring in a junction box on the far side nehind a keypad, rest came into the Moose and i want one item per zone. So new i needed expanders right off the batt...
This is the old Moose location (as you can see was surface mount. My plan is to put in 14" enclosure recessed here, but the studs aren't going to make that easy. In addition to the input expander you see here, i'll be branching AUX/SAUX power for a couple of smokes / motions here.
Ok in terms of getting the wiring done, because of the house's design (open foyer and a lan-beam running from top of stairs towards the other side of the house, there is only one clear space inbetween 2 floor joists running the 30' between the attics on the single story sections on either side of the two-story cube (over garage and over my bed). As you can see in the following photo, that was occupied. We put one 2" in the same hole, but no o going the other way due to bathroom being above it and we couldn't cut into the plywood subfloor. so we came down another section and put in 45's to get close. I've filled most of this even though i laid the audio/IR cabling seperately outside it. And i still need to run more... debating my options...
And what the wife is on me to clean up. I know it looks bad - heck it is bad... I was in a rush to get the back to work at the end of my vacation and just haven't gotten back. I sure could use some help.
contents: RG6, CAT6 drops, 8-port netgear 10/100/1000 switch, 100bt/100fx (Gigabit was too expensive at the time) media converter (heads to the office panel below), elk ethernet expander, elk serial expander (this one is for hvac), elk zwave - waiting for the serial fix for Vizia rf and then this is gone), elk wireless, phone/network modules from leviton, cable amp, and passive splitter... In hind sight, i question some of the contents here - not sure if i like putting the small netgear switched in there and i don't think i like the leviton connections for cat cable eiether... but i did like idea of putting it all in a panel.
fyi - one long bundle of sable coming down with green/purple/etc is the old wiring for an intercom/audio system that was here. I ripped that out too, but wiring remains, though its not cat5 and won't work for most of todays systems...
Next to the big enclosure is the 14" elk panel... nothing much but the elk...
Ok, this panel is actually pretty neat/clean.
Contents: input expander, output expander, two relay boards and thre 24v wart. (most of the relays power 10 sprinller zones. One controlls garage door, one will eventually cycle my Metlund water pump, and i have other uses down the road...
This one is also messy. It's the one in my office/outbuilding
Contents: the other media converter, another 8port switch, cable modem, lynksys router, elk input expander for all the zones in the outuilding.
These are the 4-conductor speaker runs and cat5 for IR for whole house audio.
And i just got approval from the wife, to convert most of this closet into my equipment rack. Plan it to open the wall where the mail card holder is and maybe put some pull/out rotating racks there. Would house whole house audio and all A/V/HT equipment.... supplying upstairs family room as the HT setup, my master bedroom, and a tv wall mounted on a swivel arm in the kitchen for downstairs viewing.
I have no idea where to start in the cleanup...
1) ELK Products, inc. can not use these photos to void product warranties :huh:
2) members are prohibited from ignoring my posts just because they now see me as "unclean" or "impure" or "cocoon trash"
3) man does not live on HA alone - and when i am not, these areas are off limits to our guests!
Ok for starters, remember that i had an existing two story house and outbuilding. Original security was the Elk's forefather - a Moose unit. I purchased the elk before closing and the moose came out on the day we took ownership... Was weeks later before Elk was running.. Namely because i had to figure out a way to handle the wiring. Prior wiring had half the house wiring in a junction box on the far side nehind a keypad, rest came into the Moose and i want one item per zone. So new i needed expanders right off the batt...
This is the old Moose location (as you can see was surface mount. My plan is to put in 14" enclosure recessed here, but the studs aren't going to make that easy. In addition to the input expander you see here, i'll be branching AUX/SAUX power for a couple of smokes / motions here.
Ok in terms of getting the wiring done, because of the house's design (open foyer and a lan-beam running from top of stairs towards the other side of the house, there is only one clear space inbetween 2 floor joists running the 30' between the attics on the single story sections on either side of the two-story cube (over garage and over my bed). As you can see in the following photo, that was occupied. We put one 2" in the same hole, but no o going the other way due to bathroom being above it and we couldn't cut into the plywood subfloor. so we came down another section and put in 45's to get close. I've filled most of this even though i laid the audio/IR cabling seperately outside it. And i still need to run more... debating my options...
And what the wife is on me to clean up. I know it looks bad - heck it is bad... I was in a rush to get the back to work at the end of my vacation and just haven't gotten back. I sure could use some help.
contents: RG6, CAT6 drops, 8-port netgear 10/100/1000 switch, 100bt/100fx (Gigabit was too expensive at the time) media converter (heads to the office panel below), elk ethernet expander, elk serial expander (this one is for hvac), elk zwave - waiting for the serial fix for Vizia rf and then this is gone), elk wireless, phone/network modules from leviton, cable amp, and passive splitter... In hind sight, i question some of the contents here - not sure if i like putting the small netgear switched in there and i don't think i like the leviton connections for cat cable eiether... but i did like idea of putting it all in a panel.
fyi - one long bundle of sable coming down with green/purple/etc is the old wiring for an intercom/audio system that was here. I ripped that out too, but wiring remains, though its not cat5 and won't work for most of todays systems...
Next to the big enclosure is the 14" elk panel... nothing much but the elk...
Ok, this panel is actually pretty neat/clean.
Contents: input expander, output expander, two relay boards and thre 24v wart. (most of the relays power 10 sprinller zones. One controlls garage door, one will eventually cycle my Metlund water pump, and i have other uses down the road...
This one is also messy. It's the one in my office/outbuilding
Contents: the other media converter, another 8port switch, cable modem, lynksys router, elk input expander for all the zones in the outuilding.
These are the 4-conductor speaker runs and cat5 for IR for whole house audio.
And i just got approval from the wife, to convert most of this closet into my equipment rack. Plan it to open the wall where the mail card holder is and maybe put some pull/out rotating racks there. Would house whole house audio and all A/V/HT equipment.... supplying upstairs family room as the HT setup, my master bedroom, and a tv wall mounted on a swivel arm in the kitchen for downstairs viewing.
I have no idea where to start in the cleanup...
