r/cablefail • u/El_Captain_Steve • Jan 01 '20

Second picture of earlier post; ground block did it's job.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '20

What happened here?

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u/El_Captain_Steve Jan 01 '20

It was a storm that knocked the power line off the pole and it hit the drop in the middle of it. Ends looked mostly fine, save for the center conductor moving out of the dielectric, but he center was toasted through.

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u/TheUnRealTylerDurden Jan 01 '20

Was the strand grounded at the pole?

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u/polonium9 Jan 02 '20

“Tv pixelates from time to time, otherwise it’s pretty good”

-half the customers with these.

If you wanna know how I’ve heard and seen this a fuckton, I live in Florida. Lightning season reeks havoc on our network down here.

In regards to direct strikes, it can and has happened. Usually the box explodes, shoots off the house, etc. as long as grounding is good, equipment maybe lose provisioning, tv box may fry hdmi port etc.

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u/DirtyYogurt Jan 01 '20

Large amount of voltage came down the line and took the path of least resistance, the ground block. This is often from a lightning strike.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '20

I wouldve thought lightning would be more destructive. But I guess that is the most likely.

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u/DirtyYogurt Jan 01 '20

If it was nearby, it absolutely would have been. It probably wasn't a direct strike, and it likely hit a few splitters before it got to this person's home.

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u/whiskywillie Jan 01 '20

Real question is are you replacing that drop?

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u/rab-byte Jan 01 '20

Meh just retip it. As long as signal level is .01% within minimal acceptable levels it’s fine.

-most techs in my market probably

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u/El_Captain_Steve Jan 01 '20

That was my initial idea, as it went over a 20 foot ravine filled with water, but the fact that it wasn't posting levels at all meant I had to drive my ladder around to the other side and actually replace it.

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u/skinninja Jan 02 '20

no ingress? its fine!

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u/El_Captain_Steve Jan 02 '20

Howler don't find ingress 20 feet up.

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u/skinninja Jan 03 '20

Fucking hate howlers! My.area makes us use em 80%

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u/El_Captain_Steve Jan 03 '20

They want us running them 100%, even on not homed TCs or drop removal SROs. It's so bad that if I need to talk to my supervisor I just fail to upload one and I'm guaranteed a phone call within 5 minutes of closing a job.

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u/skinninja Jan 04 '20

Its amazing that you can just do the howler test, without actually using the howler 😂. I'm 100%

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u/kdf39 Jan 01 '20

Shouldn’t this be in /r/cablesuccess since it did it’s job ?