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We have a slew of huge houses around here that went up in the 70’s that are all rampant with the GE Low voltage lighting controls. I haven’t had the privilege of having to mess with it for years though.
I did see some on a DIY kitchen tear out a few years ago. Thankfully I wasn’t there for that, but I noticed the rat’s nest of cut off multi colored low voltage wires and about four or five of rocker switches in a pile on the floor. I just kept on walking.

The GE relays may be distributed all over the house also; The first two houses I worked on back in 1954 had the relays located in the boxes with the load with the power run to the boxes. The control transformer was located in the attic/