I'm looking for a wiring cable that has it all

easytimhal

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I'm looking for a cable that will have two wires to power a camera 24ac or 12vdc , with speakers wires and RG6 and with Cat5 all in one. Is something like this sold? What is it called and where can I buy it?

Thanks,
Tim
 
Not unless you get it spec'd out for yourself and pay the premium for the setups. Windy city or Paige would be 2 that come to mind, but you'll have to hit a minimum order.

The closest I've seen/ran would be a composite cable with 2 RG6 QS' and 2 C5E's, optionally with fiber.

I've also run RG6 QS with C5E siamesed to it.

Some composite access cables have all those but the video under a single jacket.

I can't think of a reason to have all those cables bundled together, it seems like an odd combination for a single pull/location.
 
I'm going to use RG59+Power Siamese Cable and a CAT5 cable, that will work for me
 

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Depending on the speaker, some speaker wires are very heavy. It is easier to just run a wire conduit, put all the wires in that conduit.
 
If this is for cameras only, you might want to just pull an 18/2 and C5E to the camera and use baluns rather than the added expense of the coax, assuming you're planning on migrating to an IP based camera from analog.

Also, if your intent on the coax is for CATV or broadband, then you're going to have issues at the higher bandwidths.
 
I'm not following your choice on cable, but it's not my wallet either. The composite cable you posted is really only an application for network, CATV and voice, otherwise it's a lot of money and copper not being used.

IP cameras, would only need a C5 and possibly a 18/2 for cameras that have heaters or IR illuminators when you're exceeding the POE that can be supplied by the switch.

Running a C5 and an 18/2 would allow either an analog camera or IP camera to be installed. Installing a second C5 would make it easier to run a PTZ and leave some spare conductors.

Using a balun would allow you to run an analog camera at the location and still maintain the ability to upgrade to IP without changing infrastructure, just abandon the 18/2 if it's not needed for the IP camera and stick with the POE supplied by the switch.

Speaker wiring should be handled as it's own entity due to induction. Control cabling is something different.
 
Depending on the runs, Pull what you need and also pull a string. Or when you need to change cable use one of the existing cables as a pull.
 
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