one of the last jobs I did while out of town last week, ran a 70m aerial span drop, came down a pole and spliced it together with another drop that was previously ran. enjoy! and thanks for watching.
Keep lateral tension on the spliced fiber when going from the splicer to the heater. That fusion splice is very strong against keeping tension across it, however letting it bend to get the heat sleeve where you need it can cause it to break before it's in the heater. I enjoy watching how you do it up North.
Loving your videos bro! Couldn’t help but chuckle a bit when you were trying to pull the drop tight, measuring the sag in feet and and sliding the clamp in inches… after you just estimated the length to be around 70 meters. That’s like getting pulled over for speeding 10 miles per hour over in a 50 km/h speed zone lol
Haha nice catch 😅 just how my brain works. The drops come in 50/100/150/200/300m lengths so I just got used to measuring out longer distance in meters. Used to use inches/feet a lot in roofing,my previous profession 😂
Remember, the fusion splicer is only estimating the loss. Before you cut the aramids, twist them and tie them in a knot. That way they don't blow all over the place and then get stuck on you, in your truck, etc.
Good idea noted👍🏼 and I know it’s an estimation. Most techs would of just done a mechanical splice which definitely is at base more than 0.00db loss (2 connectors+bulkhead)
@@Todd.T oh I know.. been there 😅 I spent close to an hour troubleshooting light loss and it ended up being a bad fiber Jack (bulkhead) at the service end 🥲 It’s on my fiber expansion video.
@@FyBurz Back in 99 we had a customer that had intermittent service. All the ends were changed. The fibre was OTDR'd and it still wouldn't work. We had massive racks with individual runs to the houses in a POP site. The bulkhead connector that went to that customer's house had a problem with the barrel that holds the two ferrules together. It was on an angle. So I inserted the back connector on an angle until it seated properly and did the front one on an angle to make sure the surfaces on the connectors mated. They had no issues again. Sometimes I open the LCP and grab the back connector and the front connector and move them around in small circles while applying pressure to make sure they are clicked in. New installs have no LCP. From the OLT or OLC, they are then FOSC/FDH only with splitters. If your drop doesn't work, there are extra OptiSheath terminals located on light posts for you to hang a temp drop and then someone will troubleshoot the address drop, repair it and take the temp down.
It's interesting to me how you wedge clamp everything. We always lash every drop to the strand, then wedge from the serving pole to the house.. way more secure over time.
@@jordantekelenburg yeah I like it. For what I need it gets the job done. I just need to practice more. Splicing on the field is tough. Lots of dust and stuff to deal with
@@FyBurz sorry for my bad english i mean it's expensive to use armored fiber drop in our country we only use ftth aerial flat drop cable which is about $60 for 1km
Yup, I don’t do it often. If I could sit in a nice trailer all day doing them all day I’d get faster. I don’t do them often and when I do I usually do splices like this in the bush.
