Buckskin /
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)
- BLACK CAT5 cable (from keypad + DoorFon)
- 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
- BLACK CAT5 cable runs from keypad to Gate Mechanism control box:
- 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
