I got 7 cameras up. I'm done for now haha. Here are some installation pics.
A 3/4" conduit flex pipe that is 10 feet long was fed over concrete block punched through the foam insulation barrier and put in the attic. Then I tried to seal the foam gap in the attic where I had about 6 inches of clearance above my head. The cans didn't spray well I got more on my hands than on the area I needed to but I was able to shove the pieces that I had to remove back into place and the foam I sprayed acted like glue. I had to use mineral spirits to get that stuff off my hands and well my neighbors thought it was funny.
The 3/4" pipe goes into a fitting that I can remove if I want to run more wires. The fitting was blue, I spray painted it black. You can see a string there, it goes all the way back to my laundry room where all the wires are. It makes it easier to pull wires into the attic and then out the flex pipe.
The 1/2" sprinkler line goes across the screen enclosure to the back. It attaches to a T where I can disconnect it if I run more wires to guide them. I sealed the unused T up with silicone tap and covered that with electrical tape. You can also see the zip ties I used, which I posted whre to buy somewhere in this thread.
I got a 6"x6" piece of aluminum for free from a place that deals with metal, and they had scraps. I painted it black. I went through the mounting bracket into the aluminum plate with screws into the enclosure. I put dielectric grease on the o rings, used the water seal that came with the camera, used silicone tape, electrical tape and all the goodies. Clear silicone caulk around the plate to mount and mount to camera.
For the previous picture and this one, the fittings took more trips than I can count to Home Depot to get the correct fit. My first choice for the thread into the mount was actually the piece you screw into the bottom of sprinklers, but I couldn't get the L shape to go up the way I wanted. So you see the stainless steel hose clamp.
I can easily get 2 more wires ran through this system for items to go on the enclosure (
IR light or another camera) but I need to attend to other projects and wait and see how this setup works.
Now that it's down. Direct burial would have been so much easier to a post but there is a garden bed below the camera. It is about 7-8 feet off the ground too.
The rest of the cameras are mounted like this one. Everything in the attic.
My BI machine. It's on a tray table. I'm pretty sure the plan is to get a unit with 2 shelves (top for machine and switch, bottom for monitor) and clothes hanger on bottom for drying from easyclosets. That would put the BI machine closer to the ceiling and I can pull wires back up in the attic and zip ties them. Make everything look pretty. I bet that is a little ways down the road so I'm posting it now.
Here is where all my low voltage comes into the laundry room. The shelf unit would be on the left and all the black wires are camera related. You can see that brown string here that was outside, it goes about 100 feet through that conduit pipe. I have another rolled up on empty toliet paper cardboard that would get taped to the next wire that is ran so I also have the string at both ends to assist with the process.
I need to finalize the view on the camera on the enclosure but will definitely post anything I catch.
This thread went from thoughts about setup all the way to completion of the project - at least phase 1!
