I keep going back to the fact that you are planning to hang this on the wall. That is fine, and you are talking about getting power to the unit. What you are not talking about is all the other required items.
One can not just power an SB3 and hang it on the wall. It has to be wired to Ethernet or talk wirelessly to a network. Next it has to be connected to a HT Receiver/IAmp/Amp or Powered Speakers. The SB3 is not a Sonos and does not have a server or built in amp. So there are going to be other wires or other devices that need power at the SB3 install location. How are these issues being handled? What are you going to be playing the music over (speakers or powered speakers)? My neighbor has two things that might apply. In his basement he has cut a hole in his wall and mounted a plasic cut-in box to set an SB3 into. On the other side of the wall is a utility closet that has his server, wireless router, a Denon Receiver, and the wires coming from the four (2 Thiel PowerPlane 2.1 in-wall and 2 HighPlane 1.2 ceiling) Speakers. This is a very neat install. Only power and stereo RCAs come into the back of the cut-in box. Upstairs he has a very large Atomic Wall clock what only uses a wall wart (no battery option). He put a power strip in his attic, drilled a hole to drop the DC lead off the wall wart down the inside of the wall to a hole through the wall powering the clock. Something like this might work. In my home, I installed a chandilier lift. The power was already there for the light, but I needed a power source to run the lift. It voids the warranty if I borrow the power from the light circuit. So I found a 15 amp circuit for wall outlets and extended the circuit with Romex and installed a metal junction box to code with an outlet. If there is room above the ceiling where you want to install the SB3 on the wall, you might be able to do the same thing. Extend the AC with an outlet, plug the wall wart into the new outlet and drop the DC pigtail of the wall wart down inside the wall. -- iPhone *iPhone* 'Last.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/mephone) Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono Blocks, Vandersteen Quatro, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Bedroom: SB3, NAD C370, Thiel 2.3 Home Office: SB3, Parasound Vamp v.3, VSM-1 Sigs Mobile: SB3, Audioengine A5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48668 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
