Looking for thoughts on where to install battery backup box

smokeybandit

The previous owners partially finished the basement of our house in a rather short-sighted way. Utilities come into the house in a room that was finished out as an office. They crappily (if that's a word) just cut out holes in drywall to expose the power panels. Getting to cable/phone lines is near impossible w/o ripping out drywall.

With that, I'd rather not have the battery box mounted in that room, but in the unfinished room next to it where the HVAC/water heater are. However, it's going to be a pain to run a cable into that room (again, based on how the previous owners finished the basement), and I'd hate to subject the installer to that.

Does the battery box have to be mounted on a wall, or can it be standalone? Or does anyone have any ideas on how to mount the box w/o mangling the wall too much?

lasagna

It's not all that heavy. Mine is in my garage and it's unfinished, but they simply found a stud and screwed it in that. I would think they could surface mount in on the wall. If you have an outside installation of the ONT, the box needs to be near both a power outlet and the ONT (they'll end up drilling a hole thru the wall to run power cable out to the ONT. If you have an inside ONT, both will need to mount on the wall and they'll drill a hole to the outside to bring the fiber in from outside.