Ah, right - yup, I think I've got it now

What I was missing was the extra joints down in the cab hole. So the E-side (and D-side) cables terminate in the hole, and are jointed to a short length of cable that takes the signal up into the cab?

The extra crimping going on down there must be a pain - and adding new crimped connections, and removing the old ones, must leave the tails from the main D-side and E-side cables in an "interesting" state.

I guess, though, that it doesn't happen very often.

What happens to the "mass" of crimps down there, once the process has finished? Do they get sealed into some protective enclosure at all?

What happens to the "mass" of crimps down there, once the process has finished? Do they get sealed into some protective enclosure at all?

Well the excess are removed, obviously, the rest will be fitted with an appropriate waterproof closure, a joint.

Maybe that's why the OR guy said it may take a few weeks. He felt that until the work is complete on the cabinet, it's best to leave my fibre connection alone. He asked to run my line on it's own, but he could not do so

The esides are modular jointed 25 pairs at a time. The redundant wires are cut away from the teed module at the end. It is a very neat job.

The problem is that FTTC does not like being teed up as I posted earlier. The eside tees won't effect the circuit but the tees on the fttc tail does.

I have had this 'challenge' myself recently. You have to tee them up throughout the duration of the works and it causes problems.

Edited by deleted (Sat 08-Jun-13 12:10:59)

The e sides are modular jointed 25 pairs at a time.

...but doesn't it feel like they aren't all taking .... plus the concentration does lapse some times

They remade a wet 2500pr joint round here recently, someone dropped off, and now have two 50pr units transposed. No point telling routing, it's where it's 'supposed' to be, so have to rely on the time honoured tradition of cab door graffiti !