My only reason for sticking with the loose tube drop cable vs the 900um
tight buffer is that it's my understanding that loose tube is better for
underground. Maybe I should get past my prejudice against tight
buffered fiber.
-Adam
On 1/3/2019 8:56 PM, Chris Fabien wrote:
My guys got good at using a AFL Fast Connect with a 3mm boot and
getting the distances right to just have the loose tube ending inside
the boot. Sometimes a piece of heatshrink over the end of the boot as
well. The loose tube is fairly rigid but it work OK in our fairly
large NIDs .
Now we are using tight buffer flat drop so it just has 900um right in
the cable. But we also switched to fusion splicing a pigtail at the
NID so don't use a field install connector any more either.
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 3:43 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I'm kind of winging it because I haven't found an example to
follow. Is
there a better way to do this?
That's the orange bare fiber inside 16" of clear 900um furcation
tube.
The connector is an SOC made for 900um cable. The furcation tube is
pushed about 3/4" into the end of the buffer tube and then a piece of
heat shrink ties the pieces of tubing together.
It seems durable enough, but it's a lot of finicky pieces. Took about
10 solid minutes to do this. I'm sure with practice I can shave that
down, but it just seems like there has to be an easier way.
In a moment I'll send a pic of why I'm bothering.....
-Adam
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