Question: Wall mounting TV. What to do with power?

edwardcasbon1 · 11 Mar 2012 at 09:28

Hi all,

I'd like to wall mount my tv and hide the cables, by channelling them in the wall and down to the corner of the room (where we'll have a cabinet/stand type of thing).

I understand I can channel all the interconnect cables down to the cabinet and either have some sort of wall plug or just have them coming out of the wall.

What I'd like to know, is what are you supposed to do about power to the tv? Obviously you can't have a few meter power cable and have the plug sticking out of the wall and plug into an outlet. That would just look weird.

Are you supposed to install a fused socket or something? What has everyone else done?

Photos to accompany and replies would be great.

Many thanks in advance,

Edward

chaparral · 11 Mar 2012 at 14:40

edwardcasbon1 said:
What I'd like to know, is what are you supposed to do about power to the tv?

Take a Spur off the closest plug socket with twin 2.5mm cable and fit one these flush mounted in the wall behind the TV

Attu90 · 11 Mar 2012 at 14:43

Put a plug socket on the wall behind the tv and shorten the power cable coming from the tv to the socket, or as you said just have a length sticking out the wall to a socket.

a1ex2001 · 13 Mar 2012 at 09:40

the neat solution is as suggested a spur terminated in a nice new socket behind the TV but there is nothing wrong electrically with your other suggestion. You can do either yourself but the long power cable is definately the easier option if your not confident with the electrics.

SimonR · 13 Mar 2012 at 14:19

chaparral said:
Take a Spur off the closest plug socket with twin 2.5mm cable and fit one these flush mounted in the wall behind the TV

I would suggest that you take the spur into a fused outlet and then spur off into the socket. That way if you need to isolate the TV for any reason you dont have to lift it off the wall to get to it, you can just pull the fuse.

You also want to run your power cable in a separate channel to your interconnects. If you are not running in conduit you need a 300mm separation between the cables

Snograt · 13 Mar 2012 at 17:00

SimonR said:
I would suggest that you take the spur into a fused outlet and then spur off into the socket. That way if you need to isolate the TV for any reason you dont have to lift it off the wall to get to it, you can just pull the fuse.

Agreed, but there are such things as switched fused spurs which would always be preferable to pulling fuses.

SimonR · 13 Mar 2012 at 20:18

Snograt said:
Agreed, but there are such things as switched fused spurs which would always be preferable to pulling fuses.

Not really. I dont want a switch which will be inadvertently knocked off, or messed with by small fingers, hence I dont use switched fused spurs. I only occasionally want to isolate the appliance, hence it is preferable to use just a fuse.