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If this is possible, I know my breaker box has enough room, but is there any risk with all those cables with the 3.5mm end causing arcing?

How do you route them out of the box? Should the wires criss-cross? Bundle them?



Leave everything in the breaker box and communicate out with wireless or optically isolated connectors.


You still have to plug in two wall wart style transformers (one is for reference voltage, the other is to power the box) into a real power outlet outside the box, and then get those wires inside the box. Or commit some electrical code sins and wire that inside the box too.


Many houses have a doorbell transformer mounted on their service panel with no plug; I can’t see how that’s a NEC violation (and therefore providing a path for a similarly engineered, code-compliant solution).


Yes, I have seen this, but it is unusual, and the doorbell transformer is still outputting AC, not DC, but at a lower voltage, and that output is not run inside the breakerbox.




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