Mounting Gear Efficiently

[emvanburen]

I’ve been thinking about this for a while as I get more and more modules, as the wiring gets more complex, and as I watch the beautiful mounting displays that people are putting together pop up on this and other forums.

It seems like the prevailing solution is to mount all gear on a nice board, with space around, often with lights and or in a stand alone cabinet. For those lucky enough to have a fish room, wall mounting is great too.

I’m wondering if there is a better way to mount this stuff. None of it requires frequent interaction, but it needs to be accessible enough to add another module or whatever periodically. It doesn’t really do anything visually appealing - I don’t really need or want to look at it...and it just takes up A Lot of scare space.

Anyone come up with a way to mount this with good neat wiring but without turning it into a shrine? Perhaps the modules could be mounted with double stick tape, on edge, by their tops. You could get a lot more modules in that way. Or perhaps on multiple panels like pages in a book?

Just thinking ...

 

[DesertReefBoy]

Following.

 

[theatrus]

Been thinking along those lines and decided to try DIN rail for my next build.

You can get a variety of mounting clips to adapt standard cases to the rail.

 

[emvanburen]

So that is what that stuff is called. Thanks. I could imagine littlem3d printed din clips glued to the top of modules. Then each module could mount like a circuit breaker in a row with easy access to the ports. Interesting.

 

[theatrus]

So that is what that stuff is called. Thanks. I could imagine littlem3d printed din clips glued to the top of modules. Then each module could mount like a circuit breaker in a row with easy access to the ports. Interesting.

No need to print - there are a bunch of plates and clips already :)