Entry Gate Wiring

There are two distinct CAT5 cables to the gate from the mechanical room:

  • GATE (#1) CAT5 cable runs from the wiring closet to the buried round sprinkler box behind gate pillar.
    • (2025-03-28) Used the toner from the wiring closet and found it in the sprinkler box. This is the WHITE cable. It is NOT terminated at this time.
  • GATE EXTRA (#2) CAT5 cable runs from the wiring closet to the gate mechanism enclosure.
    • (2026-03-29) Used toner from wiring closet to confirm. Presently NOT terminated.

2026-03-23, Monday

Additional investigation has resulted in a better understanding of the wiring at the gate

  • GATE CAMERA (#1) This is a WHITE-sheathed cable carrying four (4) heavier (14-guage?) wires which run from the control box to the Pelco camera enclosure:
    • White: 12V (?) currently disconnected in the control box
    • Black: GROUND (?) currently disconnected in the control box
    • Red: N/C
    • Green: N/C
  • Gate Mechanism Control Box
    • BLACK CAT5 cable (from keypad + DoorFon)
      • Brown/BrownWhite: 12v terminal
      • Green/GreenWhite: relay switch
      • Orange/OrangeWhite: N/C
      • Blue/BlueWhite: DoorFon terminal, N/C
    • GRAY CAT5 cable to GATE EXTRA in mechanical room (N/C)
    • GRAY CAT3 cable from Buried Junction Box #2 ????
      • Blue/BlueWhite: (N/C)
      • Orange/Orange/White: (N/C)
    • WHITE-sheathed heavy cable (-> Junction Box #1 -> Pelco camera (power))
      • White (disconnected from 12V terminal strip)
      • Black (disconnected from 12V terminal strip)
      • Red (N/C)
      • Green (N/C)
    • Individual heave-guage wires (-> Junction Box #1 -> Keypad):
      • GREEN (N/C)
      • PURPLE (N/C)
  • GATE KEYPAD (#1)
    • BLACK CAT5 cable runs from keypad to Gate Mechanism control box:
      • Brown(-)/Brown-White(+): 12v power from control box to keypad
      • Green/Green-White: Relay from keypad to control box
      • Orange/Orange-White: N/C
      • Blue(-)/Blue-White(+): DoorFon intercom to control box (disconnected at present); appears that it 'should' connect to the Gray CAT5 (? that goes to the house mechanical room?)
    • Individual GREEN and PURPLE heavy (14-guage?) wires, N/C
  • Buried Junction Box #1 To the East of the keypad pillar is a round buried 'Electrical' junction box (like a sprinkler valve box):
    • A WHITE-sheathed cable with heavy (14-guage?) wires from the control box that are wire-nutted to a similar cable that simply descends into the soil; this is the wiring to the Pelco Camera (confirmed by tone generator)
    • A BLACK coax(?) that comes from the left-conduit and descends into the ground and is probably the camera video feed to the house mechanical room
    • a pass-through (no junction) of a BLACK CAT5(?) from left-conduit (from keypad) to right-conduit (to control box)
    • a pass-through (no junction) of a pair of GREEN and PURPLE heavy wires from left-conduit (from keypad, N/C) to right-conduit (to control box, N/C)
  • Buried Junction Box #2 To the North (behind) keypad pillar (like a sprinkler valve box):
    • BLACK CAT5 from right-conduit descends to soil, buried, (comes up into keypad pillar behind keypad)
    • Heavy GREEN wire: from right-conduit, to soil, (comes up into keypad pillar behind keypad)
    • Heave PURPLE wire: from right-conduit, to soil, (comes up into keypad pillar behind keypad)
    • GRAY(WHITE?) CAT5 cable: from right-conduit, coiled bare end (not terminated) connects to GATE terminal in mechanical room
    • GRAY CAT5(CAT3?) cable: from right-conduit, coiled bare end (not terminated)

2026-03-26, Wednesday

  • Gate enclosure lighting
    • Alumilite Inc., S62 bulb, 70W, 120V (model: CL-107S-120/1F/BZ confirmed from hand-label inside one unit (also "980943"))
    • to fixture connections:
      • Ground - housing ground screw
      • White - fixture white + black
      • Black - fixture yellow + black