Fiber Optic Optimization - Fixing a Techs mess 

That’s awesome man! You should join the discord we have forums on there discussing telco and everything related. You can also dm me and we can discuss. I’m working on creating a comprehensive guide series outline every part of my job.

That’s awesome. That’s exactly how I consult electricians to do new builds! Thanks for watching!

Thanks man, yeah he was happier with this for sure 👍🏼

Thanks I thought so too 😅

Yeah no warning so I think I’m good. 😬

Drop is done I ain’t worried now until I die 😅 but thanks good to know

I can’t tell if I’m in the good old days now 😅

Thanks 💯

🙏🏼 Thanks

It sure is! 😅

Thats definitely not the reason why he did that. But it’s a good thing to look out for

Hmm. I’d be interested to see pictures of them. Email them to me if you ever feel inclined 👍🏼

yeah that's what I gathered, I will definitely try out that grounding method next time! thanks for watching!

It happens from time to time for me. It’s possible as long as theirs an appointment route. And I need to get a consent form signed off by customer to waive liability 🤷🏻‍♂️

Thanks!

Yeah that’s why I second guessed for a second. It customer told me it’s been there for 20 years and it’s not moving 😅

my exact thinking! Thanks

I’m gonna try this. Do you think the cable I use for tracer would work as a ground ?

@@FyBurz It's conductive, it should work.

Okay I’ll give it a try. If I come across it again

Umm we follow our own outside plant protocol and procedures given by the isp. Internally there are set guidelines. Usually taught to electricians since they normally do the preliminary Low voltage wiring in homes. Then it’s escalates from there pending commercial applications and so on.

​@@FyBurzThank you very much for your Answer, thats interesting to hear. Here in Germany there are several Code Conditions under which Telcos can do their Cabling (Minimal Depth, how to Cross other Lines, Distance regulations from Lines etc.) Here most Infrastructure is Underground (would guess 95% of Telco Infra). So Pole-to-Pole Transitions are very unusual here - neither are here MPTs like in your Videos. Most Fibers over here are directly Fusion-Spliced together. As Prep-Work (like with MPTs in BC) there are burried "Speedpipes" to the Homes (Small conduits which fit a "standard outdoor fiber" - nothing reinforced like yours) You can just find Open-Air-Infra in really remote Areas or in really old rural Areas.

Yea that makes sense. Urban planning goes a long way with telco.

I think thats what it is

Yeah we’re pretty fortunate. Our builds are mostly plug and play. Splicing happens one step back. Home>nap>fosc>fdh>popsite(hq)

No sure what you mean by above copper. Usually fibre and copper are on the same strand here (same provider) and yea that’s bad. Poles I’m usually 3’ below power at the house anchored at least 12” away 😅

No idea 🤷🏻‍♂️

Great question! Certain areas built more recently use this type of material. 90% of my area uses Corning Opti Tap, 10% this AFL Trident. Other areas of bc use older style of AFL where the end is a flimsy patch cord essentially and the terminal on the strand is in an enclosure. Really annoying to work with

So to actually answer your question. Same isp 2 different types of and I usually keep 1-2 coils in my truck and I currently have a 450m spool that I’ll be hanging next week 👍🏼 And I know my area very well so by looking at the address I’ll know if I need them 🤙🏼

Good to know thx 🤙🏼

It’s kind of confusing even to me really. I have a very broad skillset. That allows me to do it all minus higher level splicing. Which I could also do with a little more training and patience. But day to day I’d say my title is fibre drop tech or fibre tech. It’s very hard to tell what you’d be doing pending what company you work for and what position you do there.

@FyBurz well I qualified up to ribbon splicing. I never mechanical splice justed fusion spliced. When I saw the ont and you said the tech is coming to splice it I was thinking mechanical splicing

@blackunicorn4996 yeah exactly they mechanical splice in the nib. Sounds likely you’ll be in more of a splicer role 👍🏼 Good gig, just make sure you watch your counts and work neatly. Good luck man.

Pending neighborhood density. Aerial usually every 2 spans. Rural/city changes a bit. Where in the city you might have more 4-6 port naps more often. Or 12 port less often. It depends who does the build and the way they want to implement it.

@@FyBurz got it….. then all the mpt are ran back to a large cabinet for the area ?

Mpts go to FOSCs (splice cases)on the strand or in vaults. FOSCs go back to FDHs (splitters/patch panel) which go back to pop sites or HQ where the switching equipment is.

Isn’t that what I did 🤔😅

Definitely not worth dying. All the 5G stuff is just a joke. I’m being safe don’t worry. Not a single warning label on the pole or the antenna. We’ve determined it’s just a repeater of some sort. And I stayed behind it. The voltage stuff is interesting first time I came across that. But it was like a false reading. It went away after I retested.

Haha I’m glad you think so. The customer was also pleased.

Agreed

Telco and power are very different in this sense. A lot of these homes are retrofit installs. Power is a utility that always gets put into the home. I go to many homes even new ones that didn’t take any telecom wiring into consideration. No telecom masts in aerial neighborhoods. No wiring to the outside from panels/mech rooms.

And to me those wires hanging to the pole like that were way uglier. 😅