Re: Surface Mounting a Keypad

["jewellfish" <jewellfish@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

With some minor modifications, you can mount the keypad to a doublegang
wiremold extension box.  I believe it fits a thin one; it sits
offcenter on the box, but it looks ok.

Or, you can blow nice big hole in back for the connector using a SDS
type drill/chisel.  Brick can be a bit of a challenge but cinder block
isn't bad.  Make the hole too big?  That's when you add a "custom
backplate" (varnished plywood) at no additional charge.  :-)

Bob La Londe wrote:
> The Napco Gemini RP1CAe2 is a great keypad.  On board expansion.  Easy to
> read.  Nice looking.  It has one problem.  Its a pain in the wazoo to
> surface mount on a hard wall.  On a hollow wall you can cut a hole in the
> wall.  On a prewire you have a box for it.  On a brick wall you are screwed.
> Sure you can bring the wire down nice and neat in a wire mold, but because
> the connector sticks out the back of the keypad you can't just slap the
> keypad on the wall at the end of the wire mold.  A low profile three gang
> box would be ideal... If somebody made one.
>
> Only had to deal with this a couple times, but...  what do you do?
>
>
> --
> Bob La Londe
> www.YumaBassMan.com