been working in the telco business for 42 years,worked on open wire circuits andanalog stuff then learned to to mechanical fiber splice and now using fusing splicing machines and this is super easy,saves a lot of time...
I am looking at starting with a company doing fiber and cable installs after working 7 years in gas distribution. This was very informative and easy to understand
I worked at an internet company for a while doing things like splicing, installing ONTs & installing drops on homes that were upgrading to fiber. Wish I had had this training video when I first started. Very informative 👍🏻
Barely starting out in this field as a ground hand, I watched this video to get an idea of what I was getting myself into.. I was so intimidated watching this. It's been four months and I've been running them lashers, blowing the fiber, figure eights, digging trenches, setting anchors, peds, handholes, working in oilfield... Learning the ropes... WASNT what I expected at all. One day a splicer needed a hand.. that was me.. I saw him do all of this. Watching your video now, makes so much more sense and it's soo less intimidating now! Thank you for this. I appreciate it!! Good job.
I'm 32 and I'm starting work with a fiber optic cable company on Monday. I have no experience with this at all so I'm watching all the videos I can find on this. Yours was the best so far so thanks for uploading.
I hope they're at least giving you some kind of training! When I started contracting 14 years ago, they gave us 1 day of unpaid classroom & a 1 day ride along 🙄
The amount of useful information I learned from this one video is astounding. I was fortunate to build copper networking in my school, and saw a handful of initial installs of fiber lines. It is awesome how much has progressed, so more than ultra specialized roles can manage fiber.
Thank you so much for this. I know underground utilities etc and just made the move to telecom. I've been in training all week and was feeling very lost. This video showed everything I need to know about splicing fiber! AWESOME!
Google Fiber is installing in our neighborhood. They completed the fiber installation along the streets, with fiber loops buried between pairs of houses. Next, they will be installing the DTC boxes in those holes, and then running the drops to the homes who ordered service (including me!). I'm anxiously awaiting when they show up with their fiber equipment so I can get a live view of what I just watched in your video. Thanks for posting this!
Thank you for this amazing video. I'm actually going to be starting training for an ISP in my area, but getting to know the basics before I go in and watching you use your tools makes me feel more at ease with your explanations. Thank you for a great video.
Never spliced fiber together, however I did put ST connectors on the end of fiber cable and it was a pain. That was about 17 years ago, glass fiber, trimming, sanding, and scoping. Not an easy task with a few hand tools.
@@ericpullen524 Oh wow, im pretty sure few people know how to put ST connectors on ends these days. I've done it a couple times (10 years ago or so) and it was indeed a pain! Sanding, polishing, scoping... EURH! Had to an entire data center like that becaus they required solid patches (security reasons).. it was hell.
During the last few years of my 34 years with a major telco, we made major fiber splices, cut fiber cable repairs, and ST connectors until we started fusion ST pigtails to the incoming fibers. Fusion machines changed drastically between my first just helping, to us building major splices. So has cases and the fiber itself. Those first fibers often had inconsistent diameters, which played havoc with splice losses.
So many people seem so amazed by this lol. This is like the pretty much the absolute end of the line when it comes to fiber to the home. All the tools you use to do this everything is already setup when you buy it to strip 250/900 cladding/coating, and cleaver is factory set as well. The actual interesting stuff is where this distribution line meets the splitter cabinet, and from the splitter cabinet to the trunk line, then the actual trunk to the CO. Im not sure how many times this fiber is split, I would assume at least 32 times. That is the cool stuff. Then for major crazy density in major cities they use DWDM for backhauling absolutely astronomical amounts of data over many wavelengths... and well, every cell tower I worked on has DWDM at the base to separate the providers over wavelengths instead of routing. I miss splicing a bit... was always fun working in crazy crowded splice cases with furcation tubing everywhere, the hours were just absolutely nutty though.
Wow, this is so confusing its amazing how humans come this far to create all this technology so far, i want to do this but it would take me time to learn, i know cable and satellite but this is beyond that, good job
I really liked your show. It was a very nice eye opener for me in what it takes to splicing a fiber cable. Really cool! I all way's wondered how that was done.
@@fiberoptic166 the teacher only let us use it for a few weeks or so. i only did about 5 i think? i think i got it right on the first try, second one i did not have the two aligned right in the clamps so they did not make contact, i can't remember on the rest of them
It makes sense to use the number 1 fiber first. The color code is based on the original telco color code where the secondary colors are blue (1), orange (2), green (3), brown (4), slate (5). I’m not sure why network cables use pairs 2 (white & orange) and 3 (white & green).
@@Mskspstheunique Well you need slack to either splice the fiber or install connectors. As far as loss is concerned, no noticeable loss is caused by your typical loops in a tray. You can have microbends if the the loops are too small, but trays account for the bend radius limitations of the fiber.
@@Mskspstheunique It's needed so that when the tech's need to spice there is enough fiber there for them to do so. The bend in the fiber isn't going to effect the signal as long as it's not a tight loop, or pinched.
Love these tiny splicers, I have a Sumitomo Type-36, the thing is a beast, and it's stupid case weight 3 times what the splicer weights. I just don't do enough fiber to invest in a new one. Next time I have a big fiber job, I'll try to build the cost of a new one in.
Yeah... I got FTH recently and got curious what was all that machine for 😂 older days they just brought a telephone cable then lan cables and now most complicated fibers 😣
I splice for a living and work on cars as a hobby. The skills of brute precision are interchangeable and attention to detail is paramount in both endeavors.
I do 12 strand fiber for commerical buildings(idfs to mdf)and your equipment is so much better. We have the manual version of these tools if that makes sense
FTTH is amazing. I watched them do this when we got wired up, was quite interesting. We get 2gbps to the home here then the router splits it to all equipments, so i can get 1gbps (940mbps actual) no matter what the other devices are doing, it's pretty cool.
whats that blue tube you have on the fiber as its coming in that's tie wrapped, or is it tape? We use a similar setup for our fire controls. It would be nice to have a softer point to tie to.
We usually put the ends of the unused fibers in a shrink tube so we can easily just pull them out and figure out which one we need.... Saves you from digging around. Fiber Tech/ Wilson, NC.
I've lapped and polished my fair share of ST fiber connectors, But I've never heard of a directional meter until today. A fusion splicer is a godsend, but a directional finder has got to be voodoo. How does it work??
This is what I do every day but from the other side, planning and designing prints for fiber aerial, buried jobs. Looking for best locations to place handholes and ped box, conduits, microtrenching. hwy , pvt pole replacements or new pole placement, placing 432F hubs , cables, terminals assigning fiber counts to every unit designing jobs to feed as much living units as possible from one hub.
When I learned to splice fiber the system was in a huge trunk and weighed 80 pounds. We fused them together. Pain in the butt and slooooowwwww. New systems now anyone can do it.
@@fiberoptic166 Do you *ever* "connect" single mode to multimode? or otherwise bridge the two? I'm guessing the mismatch would cause all kinds of crazy reflections/etc. The cores are much smaller on single mode. Does fusion tool work for both types? or is it specific to one type of fiber and core size?
🙃 a lot of wow in this video! ... ill take a comm rack and panel any day over a pedestal thats for sure. People seem to NFG about their prep work.. if it fits it ships!
That model of cutter has a tray and two wheels which pull the waste side of the cut into a reservoar on the camera side of the tool. (unless you mean the color he strips off, in which case it's only colored plastic. Glass goes into the waste reservoar)
I am just learning how to work on fiber currently after leaving my job in the propane industry, it seems like forgetting the heat shrink is about as painful as flaring a copper tube without the nut on.
I'm confused and I'm a splicer for Vz in Maryland. How is the count of that tray 226 to 272? The red loose tube has 12F correct? Is this company splitting counts? What a nightmare is they are. I'm not sure how fiber 271 is a red fiber. Also, we strip the cladding and clean prior to putting the fiber in the 250 holder. Otherwise, I like what I see. Clean environment. Cleaning the fiber is important.
How does this work on overhead ariel poles? Do they add an enclosure? Fiber was added to my lines recently, but there is no loop or slack, how do they splice in?
Ah! I think I can answer this one. There is slack tho, its usually hidden inside the enclosure. For my country the requirement is 2m each side. I know burried stuff tends to have a decent amount of slack incase of repairs. Ariel poles... well... If something happens, its usually so bad that its all doomed anyway, no point in using tons of slack.
Very good video and you have good equipment. Just like every tech if you take care tools instead of been throwing tools around this video will be on 1M views
I am 2 years late , but damn ! That seems like alot of effort for just 1 splice , i have been doing fibre optics on the largest networks in africa. Here we it works different . You put your fibre into the little measuring bank ( dunno what to call it ) and then you strip off color coat and then putting that little bank back into cleaver to get your 90 degree cut , and finally you take that bank and place it into the machine , where as we individually strip the protective (color coat) from each fibre place it into the cleaver and using the bank that is attached to the cleaver , cleave it ( after cleaning with pressurised isopropyl) and then take your bare fibre out of the cleaver and place it into the splicer.
Some nodes, especially middle of the street nodes can have the individual fibers cut and swapped between different cables going in multiple directions as people/business change plans and other purchase new ones etc. Best to leave plenty of extra fiber to re-cut and splice many times without hassle. The fibers are quite stiff, so in when handled correctly and in a purpose built tray such as this they are reasonably easy to handle without getting tangled. That said, because they are stiff, if you mess up then they are a bit spring-loaded, so they can all launch out into a big mess for you to carefully wind back together.
Just wanna ask is there triple play technology ( telephone + Cable TV + internet ) successful. All service providers are using it or Internet can be done separately apart from cable. Love from India
Alot more goes into it opposrd to coaxil. The cable days were easy lol. Had it down to around 3 minutes for landing a drop. From taking the ladder off the truck to putting it back on the truck.
@@Tiki_2211 i didn't understand what you mean by landing a drop. I install satellite and though you were meaning running cable. I agree with just putting a connector on. Maybe our terminology is different. Lol
been working in the telco business for 42 years,worked on open wire circuits andanalog stuff then learned to to mechanical fiber splice and now using fusing splicing machines and this is super easy,saves a lot of time...
wow 42 years. that's cool
From the viewpoint of a retired industrial electrician familiar with solid state controllers, this is truly amazing.
Ahh the stories you must have Jim..
Was NOT recommended by RUclips, I was actually looking for it. Thanks, it was interesting.
I'm glad you found it. Thanks for watching
This is the kind of thing that I want to see on the internet, very cool. Keep it up!
thank you
I am looking at starting with a company doing fiber and cable installs after working 7 years in gas distribution. This was very informative and easy to understand
cool I'm glad it help. Good luck at your new job if you decide to take it.
I worked at an internet company for a while doing things like splicing, installing ONTs & installing drops on homes that were upgrading to fiber. Wish I had had this training video when I first started. Very informative 👍🏻
Barely starting out in this field as a ground hand, I watched this video to get an idea of what I was getting myself into.. I was so intimidated watching this. It's been four months and I've been running them lashers, blowing the fiber, figure eights, digging trenches, setting anchors, peds, handholes, working in oilfield... Learning the ropes... WASNT what I expected at all. One day a splicer needed a hand.. that was me.. I saw him do all of this. Watching your video now, makes so much more sense and it's soo less intimidating now! Thank you for this. I appreciate it!! Good job.
I’m glad it helped, you will be an expert soon
You haven't lived till you've made the perfect 12 strand ribbon then realized you forgot the heat shrink.
It happens
Yep it happens, me too
Sounds like what I'd do if I was an electrician.
Oh yes
You'll have that. I once mislabeled an entire 144ct. All it takes is one moment of not paying attention.
I'm 32 and I'm starting work with a fiber optic cable company on Monday. I have no experience with this at all so I'm watching all the videos I can find on this. Yours was the best so far so thanks for uploading.
congratulations on the new job! I'm glad the video helped.
I hope they're at least giving you some kind of training! When I started contracting 14 years ago, they gave us 1 day of unpaid classroom & a 1 day ride along 🙄
Is this a good career to get into? What's the compensation like?
hows the job going for you?
Pays good 25-35 per. Hour and 45 when called in from home I’m from California
The amount of useful information I learned from this one video is astounding. I was fortunate to build copper networking in my school, and saw a handful of initial installs of fiber lines. It is awesome how much has progressed, so more than ultra specialized roles can manage fiber.
I'm lad it helped. Keep an eye out for new videos
zzz
Thanks for making this video! I work in IT, but have little experience with fiber, nice to see how a splice is done. Can't wait for the next video.
Glad it was helpful!
Same. Love to get involved in some fibre one day.
Bro you where does the work?
Before i was retired this is what i did ,spliced many of fiber in central Missouri,thanks for the video
cool, do you do any contract work now?
Bro I want a work in another country..
M also a fibre technician..
From india
copper: put wire together and add some eletrical tape or something
fiber: ACTUAL SCIFI WITCHCRAFT
funny 😂
soldering is underated ;P
YAHUSHA will judge u witch crafter moses destroyed u before messiah hamaysachi Yahusha will destroy u
Try doing that on a catv drop and you'll have ber and mer out the ass
Actually you just open it, cut and clean, and put into the machine
Thank you so much for this. I know underground utilities etc and just made the move to telecom. I've been in training all week and was feeling very lost. This video showed everything I need to know about splicing fiber! AWESOME!
I'm glad it helped
Almost 7 years as a fiber technician. from nepal.
World link ma hola haina😆
Just started my fiber splicing journey today. Got 12 years into the osp side of things. Time to switch gears!
cool, congratulations
Thats so delicate, he strips it and everything. crazy.
Takes practice strip it without damaging the fiber. They also make an automatic stripper.
You guys were at my Mom's house today putting up most of the line and I can't wait until we get the internet! I'm so excited, especially my Mom!
Google Fiber is installing in our neighborhood. They completed the fiber installation along the streets, with fiber loops buried between pairs of houses. Next, they will be installing the DTC boxes in those holes, and then running the drops to the homes who ordered service (including me!). I'm anxiously awaiting when they show up with their fiber equipment so I can get a live view of what I just watched in your video. Thanks for posting this!
That is awesome, let me know how it goes.
Just like your channel name, it was fun to watch, I enjoyed it, watched many videos like this, but this one turned out to be the one I truly Enjoyed.
thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you for this amazing video. I'm actually going to be starting training for an ISP in my area, but getting to know the basics before I go in and watching you use your tools makes me feel more at ease with your explanations. Thank you for a great video.
I’m glad the video was helpful. Good luck at your new job.
I remember doing this 30 years ago when it was challenging....modern tech is a wonderful thing.
cool
Never spliced fiber together, however I did put ST connectors on the end of fiber cable and it was a pain. That was about 17 years ago, glass fiber, trimming, sanding, and scoping. Not an easy task with a few hand tools.
@@ericpullen524 Oh wow, im pretty sure few people know how to put ST connectors on ends these days. I've done it a couple times (10 years ago or so) and it was indeed a pain! Sanding, polishing, scoping... EURH!
Had to an entire data center like that becaus they required solid patches (security reasons).. it was hell.
During the last few years of my 34 years with a major telco, we made major fiber splices, cut fiber cable repairs, and ST connectors until we started fusion ST pigtails to the incoming fibers.
Fusion machines changed drastically between my first just helping, to us building major splices. So has cases and the fiber itself. Those first fibers often had inconsistent diameters, which played havoc with splice losses.
@@jamiepatterson1214 Oh yeah way back in the days just after mechanical splices it could be rough for sure.
For these days we don't need to strip fiber manually cuz the fusion splicer has everything on it, but I salute you for your hard work sir❤
nice
20 years ago, my fusion splicer was much, much larger. I kinda miss this work.
wow 20 years. cool
honourable
Awesome video thank you very much. I’m getting involved in Fiber to the Home did a lot of splicing with cases 864, 144 so forth.
I'm glad you liked it
This video is Making Fiber Great Again! 🇺🇸
😂😂😂😂
today's episode on why was i recommended this
You, sir, gave a lot of people a job.
Unix as in the OS
@@fiberoptic166 Yep, always. I mean the distro that I use is Ubuntu, but AngelUbuntu wasn't as catchy.
cool, I have also used ubuntu
A close up fibre splicing Good video 🥇🕺
This is awesome. i c you do your work for life. thanks.
Thank you for sharing your Knowledge by posting this video.
Thank you for watching.
Keep making videos of your work man it's very interesting
Thank you for watching and your kind words
Very informative. Made it look easy. Great job.
So many people seem so amazed by this lol. This is like the pretty much the absolute end of the line when it comes to fiber to the home. All the tools you use to do this everything is already setup when you buy it to strip 250/900 cladding/coating, and cleaver is factory set as well. The actual interesting stuff is where this distribution line meets the splitter cabinet, and from the splitter cabinet to the trunk line, then the actual trunk to the CO. Im not sure how many times this fiber is split, I would assume at least 32 times. That is the cool stuff. Then for major crazy density in major cities they use DWDM for backhauling absolutely astronomical amounts of data over many wavelengths... and well, every cell tower I worked on has DWDM at the base to separate the providers over wavelengths instead of routing. I miss splicing a bit... was always fun working in crazy crowded splice cases with furcation tubing everywhere, the hours were just absolutely nutty though.
Wow, this is so confusing its amazing how humans come this far to create all this technology so far, i want to do this but it would take me time to learn, i know cable and satellite but this is beyond that, good job
maybe you can share a video, I like learning from everyone.
👍
I really liked your show. It was a very nice eye opener for me in what it takes to splicing a fiber cable. Really cool! I all way's wondered how that was done.
Glad it was helpful!
i got to use one of those in my vo-tech class back when i was in school, i thought it was always cool how they worked
how many splices did you get to do?
@@fiberoptic166 the teacher only let us use it for a few weeks or so. i only did about 5 i think? i think i got it right on the first try, second one i did not have the two aligned right in the clamps so they did not make contact, i can't remember on the rest of them
thank you i learn some thing about fiber optic from you
Holy shit this is not what I expected splicing to be like but It definitely exceeded my expectations.
I always use the blue first too. Makes the most sense due to the order of the typical 12F ribbon.
It makes sense to use the number 1 fiber first. The color code is based on the original telco color code where the secondary colors are blue (1), orange (2), green (3), brown (4), slate (5). I’m not sure why network cables use pairs 2 (white & orange) and 3 (white & green).
Why is important or necessary to wind the optic fiber string in loops? Doesn’t that make the fiber loose signal strength? Why do they do it?
@@Mskspstheunique Well you need slack to either splice the fiber or install connectors. As far as loss is concerned, no noticeable loss is caused by your typical loops in a tray. You can have microbends if the the loops are too small, but trays account for the bend radius limitations of the fiber.
@@Mskspstheunique It's needed so that when the tech's need to spice there is enough fiber there for them to do so. The bend in the fiber isn't going to effect the signal as long as it's not a tight loop, or pinched.
Cool video , fibre optics internet was a complete mystery for me , this really helps ! 🧐🇬🇧🤔👍🏻🤝❤️🤓🤓🤓
glad I helped, thanks for watching
Now I understand the ego of a fiber Tech when faced with the overdriven ego of a cable tech...
Fiber is so much more fun.
Yeah till you forget something and you have to do it all over
Master craftsman at work.
Thanks
Love these tiny splicers, I have a Sumitomo Type-36, the thing is a beast, and it's stupid case weight 3 times what the splicer weights. I just don't do enough fiber to invest in a new one. Next time I have a big fiber job, I'll try to build the cost of a new one in.
Thanks for sharing.
It will be best if you share the machine functionality too.
I've watched entire process live when I took my FTH connection. Yep , it was all surprising 😱
Yeah... I got FTH recently and got curious what was all that machine for 😂 older days they just brought a telephone cable then lan cables and now most complicated fibers 😣
I work on cars where we use hammers and impact guns, can't imagine having to be this delicate all the time.
I splice for a living and work on cars as a hobby. The skills of brute precision are interchangeable and attention to detail is paramount in both endeavors.
not sure why I was recommended this today but interesting to watch all the same
nice video
Glad you enjoyed it!
Superb. Do you know which company does good hands-on training on fiber splicing & design?
I don't know what you are doing bet I just can not stop watching
I'm glad you enjoyed the video
I do 12 strand fiber for commerical buildings(idfs to mdf)and your equipment is so much better. We have the manual version of these tools if that makes sense
you defiantly need the right tools to make the job easier
Cool seeing my job being done in the USA, does USA not have PPE?
Good ol fusion splice
Very, very awesome video
Thank you very much!
Looks like fun we used to run the cable itself in the ground and somebody else would come back behind us and terminate it.👍✌
nice, placing cable is interesting as well
can I splice fibers with a visual fault locator currently on? would the laser cause damage to fusion camera?
I don’t think it is recommended.
@@fiberoptic166 but can I splice fibers while PON/OLT is on? I notice on 4:26 you splice the fiber with dB of 8.3.
We do.
Please tell me, what is that blue adhesive sheet for protection? Where can I find it? A link please if you can. Thank you
Its called felt tape.
fiberopticsupply.com/preformed-line-products-blue-felt-strips-6-pack-8003490/
FTTH is amazing. I watched them do this when we got wired up, was quite interesting. We get 2gbps to the home here then the router splits it to all equipments, so i can get 1gbps (940mbps actual) no matter what the other devices are doing, it's pretty cool.
tfw australia, 5mbps when im lucky at 3am.
@@Finnnicus I went from 12/1 to 1000/600 I know the pain lol. Games and updates would take HOURS, red dead 2 115gb took me 20mins.
whats that blue tube you have on the fiber as its coming in that's tie wrapped, or is it tape? We use a similar setup for our fire controls. It would be nice to have a softer point to tie to.
Its called felt tape
fiberopticsupply.com/preformed-line-products-blue-felt-strips-6-pack-8003490/
This is what we do..I have my fusion splicing machine with OTDR pls kindly recommend for a job
All of this delicate, intricate work gone when some idiot doesn't watch where he's going and crashes into the pedestal 😢
I agree. I might do a video about that
@@fiberoptic166 you should!!
We usually put the ends of the unused fibers in a shrink tube so we can easily just pull them out and figure out which one we need.... Saves you from digging around. Fiber Tech/ Wilson, NC.
I've lapped and polished my fair share of ST fiber connectors, But I've never heard of a directional meter until today. A fusion splicer is a godsend, but a directional finder has got to be voodoo. How does it work??
Nice, Fiber connection is the hot stuff these days here in Israel
I'm a splicer from Nigeria add me to your Whatsapp if anyway you can help me get the job in Israel 🙏
This is what I do every day but from the other side, planning and designing prints for fiber aerial, buried jobs. Looking for best locations to place handholes and ped box, conduits, microtrenching. hwy , pvt pole replacements or new pole placement, placing 432F hubs , cables, terminals assigning fiber counts to every unit designing jobs to feed as much living units as possible from one hub.
cool
hey i love that supp essex table
If man swallow fiber core small bit then what happens
Is that a wagon wheel?
Very nice, i did something similar on my channel. We are using in Europe different splice protection. Greetings from Munich
cool
When I learned to splice fiber the system was in a huge trunk and weighed 80 pounds. We fused them together. Pain in the butt and slooooowwwww. New systems now anyone can do it.
exactly...put yur blindfold on and go!
Is that single mode or multimode? always single mode if a long way back to the office right?
Multi inhouse stuff only usually?
Sorry I'm new.
Your correct, it’s single mode👍
@@fiberoptic166 Do you *ever* "connect" single mode to multimode? or otherwise bridge the two?
I'm guessing the mismatch would cause all kinds of crazy reflections/etc. The cores are much smaller on single mode. Does fusion tool work for both types? or is it specific to one type of fiber and core size?
Can't believe how small that splicer is , when I did Fusion Splices it was a big as a bread maker
I remember those old Fujitsu splicers the size of a bread maker. They were still in use when I retired a few years ago.
whats is the power meter used to check fiber power
🙃 a lot of wow in this video! ... ill take a comm rack and panel any day over a pedestal thats for sure. People seem to NFG about their prep work.. if it fits it ships!
What do you do with the garbage you cut from the fibre? do you vacuum the lawn? or just leave it for some kid to get hurt on?
That model of cutter has a tray and two wheels which pull the waste side of the cut into a reservoar on the camera side of the tool.
(unless you mean the color he strips off, in which case it's only colored plastic. Glass goes into the waste reservoar)
I am just learning how to work on fiber currently after leaving my job in the propane industry, it seems like forgetting the heat shrink is about as painful as flaring a copper tube without the nut on.
exactly
hey youtube algorithm.... doctor says i need more fiber.
I'm confused and I'm a splicer for Vz in Maryland. How is the count of that tray 226 to 272? The red loose tube has 12F correct? Is this company splitting counts? What a nightmare is they are. I'm not sure how fiber 271 is a red fiber. Also, we strip the cladding and clean prior to putting the fiber in the 250 holder. Otherwise, I like what I see. Clean environment. Cleaning the fiber is important.
How does this work on overhead ariel poles? Do they add an enclosure? Fiber was added to my lines recently, but there is no loop or slack, how do they splice in?
Good question. I'm not sure, I only work with buried stuff.
Im stickin to my 16 ga. licorice rope cable and linemans tape, the hell with this!
Ah! I think I can answer this one. There is slack tho, its usually hidden inside the enclosure. For my country the requirement is 2m each side. I know burried stuff tends to have a decent amount of slack incase of repairs. Ariel poles... well... If something happens, its usually so bad that its all doomed anyway, no point in using tons of slack.
why youtube recommend this vid to me..? btw it's interesting
Im glad you liked it
I'm guilty myself but use flush cuts on those zip ties. Snips leave a sharp edge. The next guy will curse you when he leaks.
Very good video and you have good equipment. Just like every tech if you take care tools instead of been throwing tools around this video will be on 1M views
thank you
Hello , whats the excact name of the tool tha you hold the fiber ?
Fiber Holders
I am 2 years late , but damn ! That seems like alot of effort for just 1 splice , i have been doing fibre optics on the largest networks in africa. Here we it works different . You put your fibre into the little measuring bank ( dunno what to call it ) and then you strip off color coat and then putting that little bank back into cleaver to get your 90 degree cut , and finally you take that bank and place it into the machine , where as we individually strip the protective (color coat) from each fibre place it into the cleaver and using the bank that is attached to the cleaver , cleave it ( after cleaning with pressurised isopropyl) and then take your bare fibre out of the cleaver and place it into the splicer.
Wonder how much that tool cost.
In which country do you working?
In the US
@@fiberoptic166 I am working in New Zealand 🇳🇿 as a fiber technician
@@Bhakti_sagar138 cool for how long?
why do you leave so much assess fiber in the fiber node? and does that never get tangled?
Some nodes, especially middle of the street nodes can have the individual fibers cut and swapped between different cables going in multiple directions as people/business change plans and other purchase new ones etc. Best to leave plenty of extra fiber to re-cut and splice many times without hassle. The fibers are quite stiff, so in when handled correctly and in a purpose built tray such as this they are reasonably easy to handle without getting tangled. That said, because they are stiff, if you mess up then they are a bit spring-loaded, so they can all launch out into a big mess for you to carefully wind back together.
So fun
I like
What's the name of the directional fiber meter?
Optical Fiber Identifier Furukawa Electric ID-H/R v2
Do fiber techs have to buy all their own tools, or does the company typically help?
My employer provides the tools. Contractors have to buy theirs
What's the bandwidth of one of those fibers?
Light. 😆
Excellent
Thank you
Why didn't you measure your fibers to the chip holder before you started stripping and splicing?
The smaller unit does that itself. You just put it in and it cuts it to the correct length.
Just wanna ask is there triple play technology ( telephone + Cable TV + internet ) successful. All service providers are using it or Internet can be done separately apart from cable. Love from India
we did all three
i cut my fiber drop the other day and spliced it myself so i wouldnt get charged for it ... Purchased a $4k fiber splicer on ebay and did it myself.
How much were they charging you to splice?
Alot more goes into it opposrd to coaxil. The cable days were easy lol. Had it down to around 3 minutes for landing a drop. From taking the ladder off the truck to putting it back on the truck.
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@@lavelbrown9352 to put an end on a coaxial? No legit takes 3 minutes. Thats obviously parking beside the pole and not having to walk through a yard.
@@Tiki_2211 i didn't understand what you mean by landing a drop. I install satellite and though you were meaning running cable. I agree with just putting a connector on. Maybe our terminology is different. Lol
@@lavelbrown9352 must be. We always called it landing the drop.
Good training for surgeons.
I can do it. Where do i sign up for a job?
How do you work during the rain ??
Tents, but really you just wait it out if it's raining too hard.