Customer Reviews

DataComm 45-0001-WH 1-Gang Recessed Low Voltage Cable Plate (White)

5 star:		(55)
4 star:		(17)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I mounted a TV on the wall of my kitchen and was looking for an inexpensive way to hide the wires. This is ideal.

It's simple to install. You just need two of these and two low voltage brackets like this: Arlington LV1-1CS Single Gang Low Voltage Mounting Bracket Device You use a stud finder to make sure you're not looking to put this in a stud, and then use a drywall saw to cut the hole. Repeat to put the one down below. (Use a level to ensure they're straight.) Insert the low voltage mounting bracket in both the upper and lower and then put the plate on the upper one. Start fishing cables through the wall. (It's easier to leave the plate off the lower one until you fish all the wires out of the wall first.)

Through a one-gang plate, I have an HDMI cable, a VGA cable, a set of composite cables with sound, a 1/8" headphone jack cable, and a network cable. It's tight, but everything fits.

Order these plates. You won't be disappointed.

This is a great product! But if you are running a lot of wires, like I did, then I recommend you buy the double gang plate. I ran my surround sound(12 gauge), 3 HDMI cables, 1 TOS link, 1 coax, and 1 Cat 6 cable and barely had enough room.

Someone mentioned that you cannot do this without having back access or a new build. That is false. Just need to take your time when cutting the wall and boring through the studs.

This is a simple cover plate for a wall hole that provides a neat, orderly way to feed cables from your Home Theater system into the wall, or out of the wall at the TV Monitor location. It lets you buy one, long set of cables, rather than one set for inside the wall and two patch sets for home theater receiver to the wall, and wall to TV monitor. If you have more than one type of connection, this will make your install much less expensive!
Things to know:
1. You will need TWO, if you are going to use a single set of cables!
2. You will need a old-work, low-power wall box for each one purchased. You can get these for $1-3 each (depending on style) at your local "Big-Box" hardware store. (Check both the electrical area and the home networking areas to find both styles.)
3. When planning your installation, recognize that the clump of wires coming out of the wall will not make many wives happy! Plan to have both boxes hidden by the TV or Home theater cabinet.
4. If moving connections horzintally from one wall location to another, you are likely to run into one or more studs. If you do not have experience with blind drilling large holes, you will be much happier taking the cables into the attic or crawl space in one stud space, and back into the wall at the new stud space.

I've used these plates in two different locations in my house, and in both cases they've worked great. Now, granted it's only a face plate, but the wrong anything will draw unwanted attention. This face plate blends seamlessly along side the others on my wall. Friends have looked at them and not known what they were, but in a good way. They commented on how even though the cables are visible entering the wall, the face plate hides them and doesn't draw your attention.

I've used both the single and double gang versions. In both cases I've run my cables in the wall first then added the face plate to close the openings. This works better for me than attempting to run cables through the face plates and possibly damaging or marring them.

I purchased these plates to hide the cabling behind wall-mounted flat screen TVs, as I suspect 99% of the people considering these plates.

Installation is a snap. Just make sure that you get a proper mounting bracket such as the Carlon SC1000RR which is the ones I used. You simply cut the holes in the drywall, pass the cables, install the brackets and place the face plates. It took me literally 20 minutes to do this with one TV.

Make sure to use a stud finder to make sure there are no obstructions in the cable route before cutting the wall.

This is one of those things that are simple and perfectly adapted to the mission. It even include the screws that it needs!

Love these things, no need for keystones or huge plates with jacks. Can fit component video, 2ch audio, hdmi, usb, and Ethernet cables in the single size plate. Great for low profile wall mounts. Recommend.

These really top off the new flat screen. Make sure you do your home work and read all the reviews everything said is true. You need to plan well.

I have been running cables for my Home Theater between my Receiver, Blu-ray player, TV, and PC and wanted to hide them behind the wall for attractiveness. This plate allowed me to run many cables through one opening in an attractive manner (use with low-voltage mounting bracket). It worked great. I rated 4 stars (as opposed to 5) because I thought they were a bit pricey.

Great solution for wall mounted TV.
Most solutions require connecting wires to the back of a face plate, then connecting the wires from the faceplate to your TV. This solution is better because it doesn't introduce another connection point and signal quality stays at a premium.
Since it is behind the TV, looks are not really important.

This product was not available at Home Depot or Lowe's so it was nice to find it on Amazon's website! Works and looks great!