Experience showed it was better to raise it all the way than lower it all the way to free up space.  The original idea 20 years ago was to mount it on chains from the ceiling.  The standing desk is about as close as it's ever going to get.  

It was a big push, but enough wires were finally reconfigured to get it to go all the way up.  There are still many unnecessary wires going to manes voltage that would be better off going to the ATX brick.  The biggest win would be consolidating all the raspberry pis into 1 but a mini PC costs as much as a new instrument.  

All the DC consumers were finally routed to the ATX power supply.  It remanes to be seen if the 5V has enough juice to power all the cameras & confusers or if more 5V lines are needed.