Aiphone IXG-DM7-BOX - Flush Mount Back Box for IXG-DM7-HID

Yes. The IXG-DM7-BOX is the flush mount back box for the IXG-DM7-HID entrance station, and it ships separately, so it has to go on the order alongside the station if the station is going into the wall rather than on the surface. Buy them together or the rough-in stops.

The back box measures 12-1/2 x 6-1/8 x 2-3/8 inches (317mm x 156mm x 60mm), height by width by depth. The 2-3/8 inch depth is the number that decides most jobs: a standard 2x4 stud wall takes it, but check it against masonry or a shallow furred wall before you cut.

Six knockouts total: two in the back of the box, two in the top and two in the bottom. That gives you a back feed for a stud wall or block chase, and top or bottom entry when the wire is coming down or up the cavity. No side entry, so plan the run accordingly.

The box is specified for the IXG-DM7-HID and nothing else. It is part of the IXG Series line, but the mounting pattern and the 12-1/2 x 6-1/8 inch face are cut for that one station, so a different IXG entrance station needs its own back box.

No. The MS Sedco 1015 is a two-piece mounting box for an activation switch, compatible with the 59, 59V, 1078, 216, 830 and 614 series - it is built around door activation switches, not intercom entrance stations. The Aiphone IXG-DM7-BOX is the box the IXG-DM7-HID flush mounts into and must be purchased when flush mounting that station. A box that looks similar on the wall is not interchangeable here; the DM7 station has one flush enclosure that accepts it.

That is the point of selling it on its own. The steel box goes in with the electrical rough-in, conduit lands in the knockouts, and the IXG-DM7-HID station mounts to it later at trim-out. Electricians and low voltage crews can work on their own schedule instead of waiting on the intercom delivery.

No. This Aiphone box is sized for a video entrance station and measures 12-1/2 x 6-1/8 x 2-3/8 inches. For a door activation switch you want a much smaller enclosure, such as the MS Sedco 1015 two-piece mounting box, which suits their 59, 59V, 1078, 216, 830 and 614 series switches, or the MS Sedco 1010 for the 59J and 614-SSN series.

The IXG-DM7-BOX is flush mount only, so it will not solve a surface application. If the run has to stay on the wall face, a surface box such as the SDC 480-SSB (5-1/2 x 5-1/2 x 2-1/8 inches, weatherized, with a battery clip) covers surface mounted device work, though it is not an enclosure for the IXG-DM7-HID station itself.

The Aiphone IXG-DM7-BOX is a flush mount box, so it needs a wall cavity 12-1/2 by 6-1/8 by 2-3/8 inches to recess into, with conduit entering through knockouts in the back, top or bottom. Where the wall cannot be opened, the equivalent approach is a surface mount enclosure such as the SDC 480-SSB, a weatherized surface mount box at 5-1/2 by 5-1/2 by 2-1/8 inches with a battery clip - sized for a device on that smaller footprint rather than the DM7 station. Confirm the device you are mounting fits the surface box before ordering, since the flush box and the surface box hold different equipment.

Both are two-piece mounting boxes for activation switches, and the difference is which switch series each one takes. The MS Sedco 1010 is compatible with the 59J and 614-SSN series. The MS Sedco 1015 is compatible with the 59, 59V, 1078, 216, 830 and 614 series. Match the box to the switch model already specified for the opening. Neither one relates to the Aiphone IXG-DM7-BOX, which is the flush enclosure for the IXG-DM7-HID entrance station, so an entrance using both a DM7 station and a push-to-open switch needs a box on each side of that list.

It is a commercial grade part, built in steel, and it belongs to the IXG Series intercom and entry line used on apartment and mixed-use lobby entrances. Property managers standardizing entry stations across a portfolio can spec the same box at every opening that gets an IXG-DM7-HID.