Outdoor Shielded | Non‑Plenum | Water Warrior® Wet Location Cables
Windy City Wire manufactures outdoor wire and cable designed for reliable performance in wet locations and challenging environments. Built on our SmartWire® low‑voltage platform, these outdoor cable solutions combine moisture defense and signal protection in one package, helping contractors deliver consistent results across security, access control, building automation, and critical communications projects.
Why choose Water Warrior® for outdoor applications?
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Whether you describe it as outdoor wire and cable or need a specific water resistant wire and cable for wet locations, our Water Warrior® SmartWire options are designed to help your project stay on schedule and perform over the long term. For questions, customization of jacket or stripe colors, or help aligning a construction with your application, connect with our team.
Outdoor Shielded | Non‑Plenum | Water Warrior Wet‑Location Low‑Voltage Cables
Windy City Wire’s Outdoor Shielded, Non‑Plenum Water Warrior wet‑location cables are purpose‑built for low‑voltage control and communication circuits that must perform in moisture‑prone, outdoor environments. The overall foil shield helps reject electrical noise from motors, VFDs, and lighting systems, while water‑blocking elements limit moisture migration along the cable. The rugged black jacket supports use as an outdoor cable in raceways and other protected pathways. These attributes make our Water Warrior wire and cable a dependable choice wherever you need outdoor wire and cable that protects signal integrity in wet conditions.
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For teams standardizing on outdoor wire and cable across multiple sites, these indoor/outdoor Water Warrior cables help streamline design specifications and reduce troubleshooting time. When you need a dependable outdoor cable for wet‑location low‑voltage control and communications, choose Windy City Wire’s shielded, non‑plenum Water Warrior options.
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22 AWG conductors are available in this category.
Available conductor color code options: Black/Red/White/Green and Black/Red/White/Green/Brown/Blue. The outer jacket is black.
They use stranded bare copper conductors for flexibility and durability in outdoor, wet-location installations.
At Windy City Wire, we manufacture and stock SmartWire® outdoor cable in 1,000 ft as the standard length. This category also offers a 500 ft option. SmartWire Glide Technology® lubrication comes standard to help reduce pulling friction.
SmartWire® is packaged and sold in our patented RackPack® carton as part of the RackPack Field Systems Solution (not on traditional spools). Learn more about our RackPack: https://windycitywire.com/solutions/rackpack-overview
Both are 75-ohm coaxial cables, but RG6 has a larger center conductor and dielectric with typically heavier shielding, delivering lower attenuation and higher bandwidth for longer runs and higher-frequency signals (e.g., satellite, CATV, broadband, and HD video). RG59 is smaller, more flexible, and suited to shorter runs and lower-frequency baseband video (e.g., legacy CCTV). Connector styles and jacket ratings vary by application, but for long distances or high frequencies, RG6 is generally preferred.
BACnet is a building automation protocol, not a specific cable. BACnet MS/TP commonly runs over RS-485 cabling (shielded 120-ohm twisted pair in a daisy-chain bus). RS-232 is single-ended, point-to-point, short-distance serial communication that uses separate transmit/receive conductors (typically 3–9 conductors) and is not multi-drop. RS-485 is balanced differential serial communication over 120-ohm twisted pair (2-wire half-duplex or 4-wire full-duplex), supports multi-drop bus topologies, and runs much longer distances (often up to 4,000 ft) with better noise immunity than RS-232.