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I am looking to install a 12v button in my office as a way to unlock the drop bolts I am installing in my french doors. I have all the components picked out except I cannot for the life of me find a box to mount the exit button switch to. I prefer an old work box, and it can be a low voltage box, however, the bolt pattern of the cover plate does not match any box I can find. So my question is, what box will work for this application?
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Can't offer help on the box, but I've learned over the years if things don't fit industry standard components, I'm either using it wrong or it's a really cheap knockoff.
 
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Looks like the button is removable from the plate. Just pull it out, drill the same size hole in a blank plate (the nylon ones are less brittle and easy to drill) that fits a standard box. I have done exactly that for a button switch. If you need a thinner plate use a steel one.
 
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PCustoms said:
Can't offer help on the box, but I've learned over the years of things don't fit industry standard components, I'm either using it wrong or it's a really cheap knockoff.
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I looked at a lot of plates and none of them seemed to be to any standard.
 
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Innovate1 said:
Looks like the button is removable from the plate. Just pull it out, drill the same size hole in a blank plate (the nylon ones are less brittle and easy to drill) that fits a standard box. I have done exactly that for a button switch. If you need a thinner plate use a steel one.
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It might come to that. I have been looking for a box for days that would fit this switch and none of them seem to fit. No idea how it has so many good reviews or how the people buying them are mounting them.
 
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Search switch plate adaptor. It will provide for standard cover plate screw pattern to fit to an electric box tabs.
 
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Like one of these.
 

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The plate with that switch does not even cover the opening of a standard single gang box much less providing any allowance for surface material gaps. What's so special about the switch you have chosen?

Why can't you just buy any low voltage single pole, normally open, momentary contact switch and fit it to any single gang box blank cover?
 
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Would be good to state what country you are in. I see the metric measurements and wondering if a standard electric box in "nowhere" might be different than in the US where I think most here are. Then again if in looking for the compatible box you find it nowhere you are in luck because that's where you are. :)
 
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