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CCA cables are all over the place and work (temporarily IMHO) for short hauls. Anything over 100M should not attempt to POE or wire in general. That’s the real advantage fiber offers. That being said I did run about 350 feet of cat6a wire in a water line trench as a backup solution in case my...

Isolation transformer was key to enabling that lightning protection. I'd run similar lengths with copper and those isolation transformers are a necessity.

Not only is the distance beyond cat6. The fiber buys you lightning protection. If I get a lightning strike out near my gate the entire area including the ground will be charged. Ground currents can fry wires and equipment so I tried to avoid that.

Yes sweep elbows. You will find the fiber isn’t that difficult to use. The house run takes a 90 about 100 feet out. I used a pop up box to allow me to pull to that location before attempting the longer run to the house. The fiber just loops in and back out. Worked great. I have a spare conduit...

I just wrapped up a couple of long fiber runs at my ranch. One goes about 600 feet to the front gate to my shop. I placed the fiber in a trench along with power. IN hindsight I would use a 1" PVC conduit if I did it over. I have no way to change out the line if it's damaged and would have made...

Thanks. I've got an Annke camera I will have to see what it looks like. Very cognizant of the power requirements so I will try to keep the siren under 4W. May need to use a backup plan if I want something very loud though.

Initial idea was to power a 12V siren off an alarm but only have POE in the area. I have a camera in the spot but not a power outlet. May mod the camera as that seems like a clean fix. If the blocking diode is ultra small or difficult I may reassess my plan.

Makes sense on the diode. Yes please forward as it would potentially allow me to reduce the complexity of the external wiring at the camera.

Sorry to dredge up this post but I have a related question that I have yet to find an answer. If I power my cameras via POE is the 12V jack on the camera "live" or is it unpowered? I want to potentially run an external alarm speaker off 12V and would like to avoid a separate POE splitter with a...