Oh, if sealing is needed, then a normal fiber optic splice cases would be wanted. There are cases that small.
From: Paul McCall Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 7:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fiber splicing And that seals up pretty well? Being in buried conduit, they usually end up with water in them. Paul From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 9:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fiber splicing There are lots of small mechanical splice kits for MM. Each splice is about the size of a short cigarette. From: Paul McCall Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 7:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] Fiber splicing Since we don’t have fiber splicing experience, I figured I should query the crowd. We have a customer with a small tower about 350 feet from their home that was installed 6 years ago. Since electrical had to be run from the home out to the tower, they opted to pull fiber (4-stand Multimode) from the house to the tower through the same 2” conduit as the electrical. One of the above ground “pull boxes” (12x12x4”) at the house had an extra hole in it that they plugged at the time of installation. Last week they discovered that the hole plug had failed (seal problem) and mice/rats had gotten in and chewed through the fiber (all 4 strands). Coming one direction there is plenty of extra fiber to pull into the box area to make a splice. In the other direction is only a couple inches of slack so I have to go to the next pull spot (a 90 deg. right angle) they need to pull a new section of fiber to that spot. (approximately 30 feet). I am talking to a local contractor about doing the splices for me, and he wasn’t sure he had a splice kit that would fit into the 12x12x4” box when finished. Is there a simple splice kit (for 4 strands) that can fit inside the box that you can recommend? Paul Paul McCall, Pres. PDMNet / Florida Broadband 658 Old Dixie Highway Vero Beach, FL 32962 772-564-6800 office 772-473-0352 cell www.pdmnet.com [email protected]
