All Articles Tagged Plates

CE Pro Editors | 09/12 12:08 PM,

Arlington Industries midwest regional manager Joe Carroll demos several of Arlington's new low voltage market products to CE Pro's Lisa Montgomery. View this story

Lee Distad | 10/31 04:02 AM, 5 Comments

When I first started getting into the custom home installation business, I was working for a small Canadian regional CE chain, and my employer had begun to take tentative steps into offering custom installs. Being a tech-geek, and being very gear focused, I mistakenly believed that the core differentiator that set a custom install business apart was to stock, recommend and use a mind-boggling array of wall plates. I thought that wall plates were cool. I was pretty keen about on-wall volume control knobs too. Years (and many projects) later,… View this story

Jason Knott | 10/11 06:27 AM, 0 Comments

"The last thing on the mind of a technician when he heads out for a job is terminating the cables," says Tom DeCosta, president of Fall River, Mass.-based Midlite Corp. How true! It's also true that terminating the cable can be one of the most time-consuming aspects of custom installation. DeCosta, a mechanical engineer and former installer, says it doesn't make sense to get bogged down on a job linking to binding posts, F-connectors and RCA connectors. "Carrying those extra accessories is expensive," he adds. Without those $3-apiece connections, signal… View this story