I've been using a couple STC-1000's for a while now & decided to build a self contained one that could be moved around easily, or at least one that I didn't have to cut wires to make work. I really like how it turned out, so I thought I'd post on here what I did. I used a 4"x4"x4" gray plastic housing from Home Depot and one of those rectangular outlets. I used a dremel to cut out windows for the STC and the outlet and a file to clean them up and make them the correct size. On the outlet, I broke off the "ears" and bent the brackets to fit in the housing. I drilled a couple of holes at an angle and used the attached screws to screw it down to the housing. I also broke off the bridge between the outlets on the hot and neutral side, but after thinking about it, you shouldn't need to do that to the neutral side. I wire nutted 3 wires onto each of the plug wires, one each to power the STC, one hot to heat and and one to cool on the STC. One neutral to heat side of plug and one to Cool side. Then one from the STC Heat to the Heat plug and one from Cool to Cool Plug.
