New with basic questions

Bluedog225 said:
I’m thinking through camera placement and it occurred to me I need to plan exterior 120 volt security lighting junction boxes and wiring as well. Motion activated flood lights and maybe IR illumination.

I’ve picked up a couple of junction boxes for mounting dome cameras to get a feel for how they mount and work. But I’m guessing I should not run electric and Ethernet cable in the same conduit or junction box. Is that correct? Should it be two separated systems?

Also, any thoughts on separation or placement of lighting in relation to the cameras would be appreciated. I don’t want the lighting to blind the cameras.

Thanks
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Low voltage and high voltage wires cannot be in the same raceway, so they will need their own conduit.
 
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I’m up at the place this weekend and had a chance to get into the boxes of cable I picked up at restore over the last year or so. Turns out most of what I bought is cat6. Some cat 5e.

I’ll probably catch some grief for this but one of the boxes had this junction box (not sure what to call it). And 20 new looking cat6 cables running off it in bundles of various lengths. My cabin is only 25’x25’ so I went ahead and ran this stuff. It actually went pretty in pretty easy. The lengths worked out to reach all 4 corners where I want to mount cameras. 2-3 cables per site for redundancy.

I’ll need to trace each line since the far ends were not labeled. And terminate each one.

Since it will be a while till I mount cameras, I got some weatherproof camera mount boxes and I’ll mount them and coil up the extra cable inside.

Thanks all.

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