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Camera pole mounts, mounting brackets and junction boxes for open ceilings and retrofit installs. Trade only, ships from Salt Lake City.

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Mounting is where the install time goes

The camera is rarely the hard part of a job. Getting it into position, level, with the cable out of sight and the fixing rated for the load is where the hours go, and it is the part a quote usually underestimates. Everything on this page exists to take time out of that.

Open ceilings and camera pole mounts

On exposed truss, a warehouse deck or a retail floor with the services on show, a telescoping camera pole mount drops the camera to a useful height with a single bolt into the structure. The alternative is running conduit to every camera position, which is most of the labour on an open ceiling job and looks worse when it is finished.

Pick the pole by the gap you need to cross, not by the ceiling height. A short pole clearing a duct is a different problem from a high bay where the truss is 30 feet up and the camera needs to be at 12. Poles list their own adjustment range, and that range is the pole's extension rather than a height above the floor.

Brackets, plates and the fixing underneath

A security camera mounting bracket is only as good as what it is fixed to. Drywall anchors hold a dome and will not hold a multi sensor with a heater, and the failure mode is a camera hanging by its cable in front of a customer. Check the camera weight including its enclosure and any heater against the bracket rating, then check the substrate.

Universal mounting plates are the practical answer to a mixed estate. A slotted plate takes most dome and turret bases without the manufacturer's own pendant adapter, which matters when you are maintaining a site with four camera brands on it.

Junction boxes and the cable

A camera junction box does two jobs: it gives the cable a weatherproof termination and it hides the service loop. Skipping it is the most common reason a camera that worked at commissioning fails eighteen months later, because a cable gland exposed to weather is a slow leak into the camera body.

Route cable through the mount wherever the mount allows it. A drop that runs inside the pole and through the centre of the plate is one that nobody can cut with a ladder and a pair of snips.

Common questions

How do I work out what length pole I need?
Measure from the mounting structure down to where the camera should sit, not from the floor up. The published range is how far the pole extends, so a 3 ft pole on a truss at 14 ft puts the camera between about 11 and 12 ft 5 in.
Will a universal plate fit my camera?
Slotted plates fit most dome and turret bases directly and can be trimmed for a smaller base. Fixings are usually not included, so bring screws and nuts to suit the camera.
Do I need a junction box on an indoor camera?
Not for weather, but it still hides the service loop and gives the cable a proper termination. Outdoors it is not optional: an exposed gland is how water gets into the camera body.
Can I mount a heavy multi sensor on any pole?
No. Check the camera weight against the pole's rated capacity, and remember that capacity falls as leverage increases. A long pole at full extension near an air handling unit will also move, which produces motion alerts all night.