RVT

They're not going to be able to do this cheap. My advice is to pay for the quality you need, and not try and cut corners.

Self storage owners are notoriously cheap. Although I did visit one site in Venice Beach CA that had a *huge* IP system, but they were storing multi-million dollar boats and RVs.

What's that base going to be mounted to? A wall? I'd probably use a waterproof box. Mount the box to the wall cut a hole large enough for the pigtails to fit through the cover of it, then mount the base of the camera to the cover (using a gasket). Make your connections to the pigtail inside the box then put the cover on the box. The incoming wires should go through a watertight connector on the side or back of the box. Just taping up the wires outside in the open air, regardless of how well taped, would be ghetto.

I'm a 20+ yr vet of the access control / security industry, working for the largest company that makes access control equipment for the mini storage business. Seen the industry go from having a few B&W cameras attached to a switcher, to long term video tape machines, and then to DVRs and Megapixal IP cameras. We've changed a lot in 20 years!

As long as you're not too concerned about being able to view the camera from anywhere besides the end of your driveway, you could simply set up an network camera, with a wifi transmitter, and then use wifi on your phone to look at the video. All you'd need to do is get power to the location. Depending on your location, solar power might even be able to do this. You only need it to work in the daytime anyways.

I've got a need to separate the two sides of a siamese cable for a few dozen feet (and a bunch of cables to do it to). This is a direct burial 22 guage twisted pair on one side and 18/2 power on the other so the sheath is really tough. It's impossible to strip apart by hand as the individual sides rip open exposing the inner cables. Does anyone make a tool that fits over the cable and has a built in razor edge that can be pulled down the cable and cleanly / quickly cut the two apart without cutting where it shouldn't? Doing it with a regular knife or cutters takes bloody forever. Thanks.