In the latter case it very much depends on what sort of crap builds up in
the gutter and whether the local birds etc, use the gutter for a dust bath
as they seem to do in mine.

It also depends how well made the cable is and how it responds to ice and
UV.
Brian

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On 11/03/2017 11:28, F wrote:
I need to connect PoE CCTV cameras (HikVision DS-2CD2042WD-I) to Cat5
cabling outdoors. The cabling that came with the cameras has plugs
already installed at each end and the camera instructions say to cut one
plug off, thread the cable through a supplied tube and gland, and then
crimp a new plug onto the cable before connecting the plug and the
camera's socket inside the weatherproof tube.

If I can, I would prefer to leave the plug on and hide the connected
plug and socket inside a weatherproof enclosure.
As well as avoiding the possibility of poor connections, this would
also ensure that the unused power connector from the camera would be out
of the weather too.


Can anyone suggest such an enclosure? All the ones I have found so far
would need to plug removing or are silly money.

A further thought... is it OK to hide the cable by running it in a gutter
until it reaches a position where I can put it through a hole in a wall?
Black cable against brickwork doesn't look pretty.

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