Same thing happens with wireless when lightning strikes a tower, but in
this case the fix is more a cost in time than money of broken equipment...
We had a similar problem the other day lighting hit near a customer and
melted the fiber in the duct through the shielding after it burned the
ground wire out of the building it burned all the way out to the HH and
melted a splice case as well. was lucky to find 6 strands out of a 144
that were still working.
On 11/20/2018 3:24 PM, Kurt Fankhauser wrote:
Things like this make me happy that I'm doing wireless and not fiber!
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 8:02 PM <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Yep, I had the same thing happen. Tree actually broke the
primary. Primary fell onto the messenger. Burned the lashing wire
in two. Cooked everything real good, but some of the fibers were
still working.
*From:* Adam Moffett
*Sent:* Monday, November 19, 2018 4:42 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* [AFMUG] Melted fiber
Thought I'd share. Apparently a pine tree in the ROW grew into the
primaries. Either the tree caught fire or it was arcing on the
comms, I'm not really sure. I know it's blurry, but all the
plastic is melted off. All that's left is the central strength
member, lashing wire, and bare fiber. This is activeE, so
separate strands for each house. All of them were working. We
only found out about it when the Power co's tree trimmers removed
the tree and one fiber customer went down. The person who took
this picture touched the cable during inspection and 4 more went
down. Not sure what was holding them there, but apparently it's
been in this condition for a number of weeks. Repair is underway.
Burnt Fiber
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