CCA Cat5 POE!! I know this if frowned upon

[Pentagano]

I need to cable 3 exterior cameras at a summer house we only use 3 months a year.

They are on wifi right now as this was only temporary. This month I'll be installing cable and possibly poe.

Now for the cabling inside from the router to the waterproof housing outside I will be using 100% copper.

But I have about 30 mts of CCA left over from a bad purchase some years ago.

My cameras only consume about 3.2w, low resolution etc.

I know I know this is always not ideal, but in this case for a few lengths of about 10ms outside just supporting 3.2w per camera would I be ok with this CCA POE?

Be gentle. Yes copper will cost me about 50 USD for 50 mts but this cca is just sitting there.

 

[biggen]

If you already have it, I'd just use it.

 

[Pentagano]

If you already have it, I'd just use it.

Thanks. Will do. I wouldn't use it inside as I heard they can be a fire hazzard with poe due to the poor conductivity and overheating issues if pulling some current.
Cabling is easy so if after 1 season it produces poor results I'll upgrade it. Better than wifi for sure though

 

[TonyR]

Be gentle. Yes copper will cost me about 50 USD for 50 mts but this cca is just sitting there.

It would be worth a LOT MORE than $50 to me to not have go back later and replace the CCA with pure copper.....but maybe that's just me.

The project would keep taking a back seat to something else and before I knew it, the CCA would fail and I would then have no choice but to do it.....and those gotchas always come at the worst possible time, it seems.

 

[Revo2Maxx]

Keep in mind that I loaned a Ai camera to a friend of mine that didn't know he had CCA in the inside of his walls seeing it was already installed when he bought the house. The camera was very low POE af format max 165ma so that is low in most of my other cameras cases anyway.. But the camera new out of the box I was going to loan it to him while he waited for a replacement of another camera he already had there. The camera came on and lasted to the point of me turning on the White Leds to show him how to access some of the cameras parts before the camera went offline. It wasn't until that camera died almost as soon as it was installed before he knew that he needed to replace the cables in the house. Why would you chance it? I mean if you care about the security of your home enough to add in cameras might as well do it right the first time so you don't have any issues. Sure it only took me 10min to repair the camera had to replace the Ethernet Transformer but keep in mind CCA don't like heat, POE is heat.. Get some good cable and only have to do install once..

 

[mat200]

I need to cable 3 exterior cameras at a summer house we only use 3 months a year.

They are on wifi right now as this was only temporary. This month I'll be installing cable and possibly poe.

Now for the cabling inside from the router to the waterproof housing outside I will be using 100% copper.

But I have about 30 mts of CCA left over from a bad purchase some years ago.

My cameras only consume about 3.2w, low resolution etc.

I know I know this is always not ideal, but in this case for a few lengths of about 10ms outside just supporting 3.2w per camera would I be ok with this CCA POE?

Be gentle. Yes copper will cost me about 50 USD for 50 mts but this cca is just sitting there.

CCA, not worth the possible headaches imho, your time is worth doing this right the first time

( alum wires are brittle and break more easily )

 

[Pentagano]

Scammed! Bought 50 mts of cat5e 100% copper. I always check with a stanley knife. Scrape a little off and silver!! Broke easily also
Put a claim in for a refund. Last batch was good copper. Genuine mistake or taken me for a fool.. will never know