Cat 5 out in the cold.

[Aurbo99]

Greetings

I am beginning to work out the placement of my yard for my first Grinch run display.

It gets cold where there's snow of course, Does anyone have suggestions on which method would be optimal?

Keep the SSR's indoors, running an extension cord to each display channel? In my case, 64 extension cords.

Or run fewer extension cords and have the SSR units outside running a few Cat 5's along with each extension cords. Keeping a very close eye on Amp/wattage usages along each cord.

Will the Cat 5 survive the cold temps?

Cheers
Steve

[Ronp]

outside seems to be the best way.....lees cords coming in the better....will cat 5 last???
I have seen some at that I was told was only out 1 year but coulnt beleive the looks of it .
I have run for 2 years on the same ones so far.
I think 3-4 years will be all...

[fkostyun]

well, I have some strands of cat5 that I left on the roof all year...... and there fine. I'm also in Phoenix, AZ.

[Aurbo99]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I'll look at getting enough Cat 5 cable to do the trick.

Nova Scotia winters can be brutal at times.

So on a similar vein, 1 heavy duty entension cord, to 1 SSROZ {4 channels} to power the 4 sting{s} of lights.

Keep the power draw on each extension cord below 15 Amps max making sure each the 16 extension cords are on its own 15 Amp circuit to the power panel?

I'm beginning to wonder if adding a second power panel in the garage to handle the 16+ extension cords exclusively might be in order. or would just adding new circuit breakers in the empty bays on my house power panel suffice?

Steve