Re: HDMI - Faceplate or Direct?

[Mark McCall <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7 Dec 2008, at 11:15, Neil Ball wrote:

> With longer cables you will generally find them quite inflexible so
> it is
> very difficult to feed the cable into the back box and then bend it
> to fit
> the straight-through faceplates such as that from LA. There are
> faceplates
> that have 90 degree connectors on the plate so present a vertical
> socket on
> the rear of the plate - this is fine as long as your cable enter the
> back
> box from above.

My cables are entering the wall horizontally, which is why I picked
that faceplate.

> That said the thicker cables can still put some strain on
> the faceplate socket when you try to fix it back to the wall. For
> these
> reasons I would go for a direct connection every time and fit a
> brush plate
> behind the rack (ACA Apex have a number of options) to allow the
> cables to
> neatly exit the wall.

Thanks, I think that's not as neat, but probably best.  I'll have a
look at the brush faceplates.

M.




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