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By "cable" in this case I mean electrical cable (or perhaps you want to call it wire or wiring). I have two more Ring cameras I want to mount on my house and I don't want to do a whole lot of drilling through studs to get the 120V to the boxes I'm going to mount on house. I already have a ready access to the 120V from my adventure mounting the doorbell.There are a couple of ways that are code compliant to run electrical outside the structure. I could use flexible non-metallic conduit, alternately I could use rigid plastic or metal conduit.In either case I'd have to buy THHN, three spools of 500', black, white, and ground. I could buy it by the foot but that would be silly in terms of cost; the price per foot it roughly five times the price of a spool. In both cases I'd have a 3/4" conduit on the outside of the house, and I think that'll look a bit janky.The other option is to use PVC-coated MC cable. MC cable is the type of cable that has the wrapped slinky-style shield that acts as armor. The problem is that that isn't suited to by used outside in wet conditions. The PVC-coated version is allowed to be used for direct burial as well as exposed and wet conditions. The only downside is that this stuff is as rare as hen's teeth.I managed to find something local at Stoneway Electrical in the Wallingford neighborhood in Seattle. Unfortunately they don't sell anything other than a spool of 250-feet of the stuff. At a buck a foot.And so I got it.This lets me finish the install over the weekend. No further unknowns are around between where I am right now and getting this installed.The leftover stuff? I think I might sell it on eBay... this is rare stuff it seems so I'm guessing that other folks might be in the mood for a deal on something other than a full spool. I'm only going to use around half of it.

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