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Horizontal electrical mounted box to vertical?

Whiskeymike

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Is there such a box that will convert a horizontally mounted electrical box in an eve/soffit over to a vertical box?

Trying to mount a ring floodlight where I currently have a floodlight and Ring is only supposed to be mounted vertically. Changing the location is out of the question. There’s a hack for grinding away the mount which allows you to reposition the camera, but if there’s a $10 box/bracket that solves this, I’m all for it.
 
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Fasthotrod

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My guess is that he already has something like this:

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...and wants to install one like this:

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So he's looking for a box that would mate up with the horizontal box and provide a vertical mount for the camera/lights.

I'm not aware of such a critter... but who knows for sure what's out there? Good luck with your search.

Mark
 
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Whiskeymike

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Fasthotrod, yes, that’s exactly what I’m looking for, thanks for posting those.

RayJay, good idea, I hadn’t thought of that. Concerned the wife wouldn’t like how it looks. But maybe I could get the conduit really short so they are flush.
Maybe I could form some sheet metal to make it look better.
 

Innovate1

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I put the boxes for exterior lights in the soffit when I wired this place. Since then it seems like wall boxes are more common and universal. Is that the case? I only had 6" soffits to work with so things were very tight. Went with 12" on the new place so will have a bit more room but some fixtures don't seem to work with soffit boxes while all seem to work with wall boxes. Someone please tell me if I am wrong on this.
 
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RAYJAY

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The light pictured should be able to rotate the lamp holders and sensor in such a way that it will work surface mounted to the soffit.

Zeke the ring camera needs to be mountes on a vertical surface like a garage peak.
 

LXCam

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You could also use a cover with a threaded hub, a threaded close ******, a 1/2" pulling elbow and then ****** into the back of the other box.

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Whiskeymike

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This is what I’m going to end up doing. You basically grind out a section so the ball socket will allow you to get the camera angle you need.


Thanks all. It’s amazing that ring didn’t consider this in their design or come up with a different mounting plate.
 
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