RG59 Siamese CCTV Cable - 20 AWG Bare Copper Video + 18/2 Power, 95% Copper Braid

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This is the indoor security camera cable: the RG59 coax that carries the video and the 18/2 pair that powers the camera, joined side by side in one flame-rated PVC jacket, so every camera in a store, office, or warehouse gets one pull from the DVR instead of two. The coax is the all-copper CCTV construction, a 20 AWG solid bare copper center conductor in gas-injected foam polyethylene under a 95% bare copper braid, the shield that analog and HD-over-coax cameras are specified around because a baseband video return path wants low resistance from end to end. The power leg is two 18 AWG stranded bare copper conductors, insulated black and red, sized for 12 V DC or 24 V AC cameras.

The jacket is UL Listed CM for the coax and CL2 for the power pair, which is the combination a siamese cable needs for concealed in-wall and in-ceiling runs under the NEC. It comes in a 1000 ft pull box with descending footage marks, so you always know how much is left.

Features

• Coax and power in one jacket. RG59 video and an 18/2 power pair in a single siamese cable, so each camera is one pull, one hole, and one tidy bundle at the DVR.
• 95% bare copper braid. The dense copper shield that CCTV, HD-TVI, HD-CVI, and AHD cameras call for, with the low shield resistance a baseband video signal needs.
• 20 AWG solid bare copper center conductor. Standard RG59 gauge in solid copper, for clean video and reliable BNC terminations.
• 18/2 stranded bare copper power pair. Black and red HDPE-insulated conductors for 12 V DC or 24 V AC camera power.
• 75 Ω, swept to 1 GHz. Covers every analog and HD-over-coax camera format.
• UL Listed CM and CL2. Flame-rated PVC jacket listed for general in-wall and in-ceiling use in the U.S. (NEC CM for the coax, CL2 for the power pair) and Canada (CEC CMG FT4).
• RoHS compliant.
• 1000 ft pull box, black. Descending footage marks on the jacket; pays out from the box without a spool stand, and the box stacks in a van.

Where It Fits

It suits analog CCTV and HD-over-coax (HD-TVI, HD-CVI, AHD) camera systems in homes, retail stores, offices, schools, and warehouses, camera-to-DVR runs through walls, ceilings, and attics, surveillance expansions where new cameras are added to an existing coax DVR, parking garage and loading dock cameras fed from inside the building, and any indoor camera run where the camera is powered from the DVR end rather than locally.

Good to Know

Work out the power leg before the video leg. An 18 AWG pair loses about 6.5 ohms per 1000 ft round trip, so a 12 V DC camera drawing half an amp has lost more than a volt by 200 ft and may be flaky beyond that; for a longer run, use a 24 V AC camera, a 24 V camera with a local regulator, or a power supply closer to the camera. RG59 is a step below RG6 in loss, which is fine for the distances an indoor camera run usually covers, but for a 720p or 1080p HD-over-coax camera keep the run inside the DVR maker's RG59 distance rating, and use RG6 for anything longer. CM and CL2 cover general in-wall and in-ceiling use but not riser shafts between floors or return-air plenums; a run through a plenum ceiling needs a CMP-rated cable. The jacket isn't UV stabilized or rated for burial, so where a camera is outside, keep the cable inside the wall or conduit and let only a short, sheltered tail reach the housing; for a trench, use the direct burial siamese cable. Install it between 0 °C and 45 °C; cold PVC stiffens and cracks if it's flexed hard. Split the two legs by slitting the web a few inches back at each end, then use compression BNC connectors sized for RG59 on the coax and a DC pigtail or terminal on the power pair.

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