I always figured it was both a thermal expansion issue along with the ability of the loose fiber in the center to be able to compensate for some damage to the outer jacket of the cable without breaking the inside fiber.
I didn’t they even made drop cable in tight buffer. Does it still have the fiberglas stiffener? Mark > On Jan 5, 2019, at 12:14 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > > If it gets accidentally hit by an excavator there is enough slack in the > strand to allow it to break and still be spliceable. At least that is what I > think the rationale is. > > From: Chris Fabien <> > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2019 9:09 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Connector on a drop cable > > Over never heard that comment of loose tube being better for underground. Do > you know the reasoning? > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2019, 4:20 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected] <> wrote: >> 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] <>> 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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> AF mailing list >>>> [email protected] <> >>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>> <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> >>> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] <> >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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