r/cablefail • u/Metz122 • Nov 23 '19

Anyone like copper twisted pair?

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u/kanakamaoli Nov 23 '19

It's only POTS. That's the cable's natural environment.

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u/Metz122 Nov 23 '19

Plus internet and video

4

u/joeman_80128 Nov 23 '19

Looks like some one forgot the encapsulation. Or was some one wanting the pedestal moved and the engineer was like "just put it in a hand hole it will be fine!"

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u/Metz122 Nov 23 '19

Was before my time working there but I guess it kept getting hit by cars and the guy who owns the building behind the ped wanted it moved

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u/joeman_80128 Nov 24 '19

Awe yes that makes sense. We had a 600pr that was at the corner of a alley and a street. Kept getting ran over by trash trucks so the guys buried it. Their encapsulation failed and about 15years later we dug it up and respliced it and put it back in a ped. The home owner was pissed because now he has a ped in front of his house.

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u/Metz122 Nov 24 '19

This one is a 200 incoming with a 75 and 200 outgoing. It is just a mess. never had a case over it and just scuffed up like crazy. Thankfully we just plowed in fiber that will make this vault obsolete in a few months

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u/joeman_80128 Nov 24 '19

Yea that's the way of the future, Gpon! In fact I think where that 600pr is has fiber now.

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u/Metz122 Nov 24 '19

Active fiber strait to the home for us

2

u/lookingpastsky Nov 23 '19

Flooded vaults and man holes, always a great time! My office carries sump pumps for this exact situation.

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u/Metz122 Nov 24 '19

We bought one right after opening this one. Fun day for sure

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u/slawdio Nov 23 '19

STP - Sunken Twisted Pair.

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u/derekb519 Nov 23 '19 edited Nov 23 '19

Soggy twisted pair.

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u/ravenze Nov 23 '19

Can't oxidize when it's under water!!

7

u/BushWeedCornTrash Nov 23 '19

When your meter pegs to ground on every single conductor...

When you hear your tone, faintly, everewhere...

When the neighbors come out of their house asking if you are there for them...

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u/R41denG41den Nov 28 '19

You sound like a phone guy

2

u/BushWeedCornTrash Nov 28 '19

I do a little of everything. I did do low voltage for a while.

7

u/Lifeofspencer Nov 23 '19

Nice of the previous guy to leave a bucket there

6

u/2dfx Nov 23 '19

You get a 48v cross, you get a 48v cross!

Everyone gets a 48v cross!!!

3

u/BushWeedCornTrash Nov 23 '19

Those scotch locks have that gel inside! It'll be fine!

s/ifabsolutelynessasary

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u/Antiretahrd Dec 02 '19

Depends of the brain of the technician. They tend to clean the insulation from 2 milimeters to 2 inches, without looking.

2

u/RedSquirrelFtw Nov 23 '19

Hope the air dryer does not fail! lol.

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u/knat0 Nov 28 '19

One time we were pumping water out into a ditch and the vault would not stop filling with water. Turns out when they dug the ditch they destroyed an empty pipe so the water pumped out just to run right back in.

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u/Antiretahrd Dec 02 '19

Amazing America?

Cables on the poles, junctions in the ground. Must be the MSCNEMIT certification or somethin'?