I'm installing a motion-activated security light in my garage on the alley-side as the number of thieving meth addicts in Calgary seems to have grown substantially in the preceding months.
The obsessive compulsive in me wants to cut a hole for an octagon box right in the middle of the gable end but that would mean cutting through the middle chord of the truss, as pictured:
What does beyond think? #yoloswag cut that bitch or install the light 8" off center?