miamicanes
Active Member
Does anybody make a single-gang variant of divided electrical boxes that provides an enclosed, code-compliant electrical box big enough for exactly one (proprietary) outlet that's ~2/3 the height of a "normal" single-gang box, with room for a pair of side-by-side LV keystones in the other third ("outside" the high-voltage area)? Say, with "decora" form factor, so to someone looking at it from the "room" side, it appeared to be a single-gang decora plate with one 120v outlet & a pair of keystone ports for ${whatever}?
It seems like something that's such a no-brainer, *someone* has to have done it... but I've had zero luck with Google so far. Even if there were arbitrary code issues arising from minimum box interior volume, they could just design it to hide the required remaining third of the interior below or to one side.
I *have* seen combo boxes at Home Depot that stick a phone jack & 75-ohm barrel onto an oversized faceplate that presumably overhangs a normal box, but nothing suitable for terminating ethernet into a RJ-45, and nothing at all with the ideal compact form factor of a wall outlet + keystone or two on a single Decora plate (divided behind the wall)
Things it would be useful for:
* Bathroom TV. Pull two cat5e cables, a RG-6, and 120v Romex to the box site, and be ready for almost any conceivable future use w/only a single-gang footprint.
* IP camera. One cat5e and awg14 Romex. Bonus points if the box comes in a variant with internal switched 2A power supply for 5/9/12v and external 2.1/5mm barrel jack.
Alternative variant: single-gang Decora form factor, LV-only. Feed it a single cat5 w/real PoE or fake-injected noncompliant DC (12v for 5v, 18-24v for 12v), and get a 10/100 ethernet port and 2.1/5.0 barrel jack with 5v/12v for non-PoE network devices.
It seems like something that's such a no-brainer, *someone* has to have done it... but I've had zero luck with Google so far. Even if there were arbitrary code issues arising from minimum box interior volume, they could just design it to hide the required remaining third of the interior below or to one side.
I *have* seen combo boxes at Home Depot that stick a phone jack & 75-ohm barrel onto an oversized faceplate that presumably overhangs a normal box, but nothing suitable for terminating ethernet into a RJ-45, and nothing at all with the ideal compact form factor of a wall outlet + keystone or two on a single Decora plate (divided behind the wall)
Things it would be useful for:
* Bathroom TV. Pull two cat5e cables, a RG-6, and 120v Romex to the box site, and be ready for almost any conceivable future use w/only a single-gang footprint.
* IP camera. One cat5e and awg14 Romex. Bonus points if the box comes in a variant with internal switched 2A power supply for 5/9/12v and external 2.1/5mm barrel jack.
Alternative variant: single-gang Decora form factor, LV-only. Feed it a single cat5 w/real PoE or fake-injected noncompliant DC (12v for 5v, 18-24v for 12v), and get a 10/100 ethernet port and 2.1/5.0 barrel jack with 5v/12v for non-PoE network devices.