The silver lock has been fitted in last couple of days. Still no humming noise to suggest it is powered up.

Likely to go live soon

From what I've seen on this forum, that'd indicate that it's due live within a week. That being said, I'm sure there's many who've been waiting a year with a silver lock installed.

I think it's used by the power connection company to allow them temporary access to it, although I'm not sure on that. It could be possible that fibre cables have already been installed to the cabinet by now, as they may not have required a roadworks listing/permit.
(Edit: seems like it's for contractors to test the cabinet based off what I've read online. Could also be possible that a power connection was installed years back along with the cabinet)

Anyway, thanks for the update. This can only be good news.

Edited by thebigdolphin1 (Fri 10-Mar-17 11:41:25)

Are you sure there's no humming noise? I can only find one instance of the silver lock being installed before being powered, and it has yet to progress past the connect stage 6 months later.

Edited by thebigdolphin1 (Fri 10-Mar-17 15:49:25)

In reply to a post by Trebby:

The silver lock has been fitted in last couple of days. Still no humming noise to suggest it is powered up.

I have not gone up to any FTTC cabinets to hear it hum, I think what people are referring to is the actual fans in the cabinet making a noise.

Though I might be wrong.

Paul

Correct, and it's fairly quiet. You need your ear close to the vents. Whereas VM master cabinets in my area you can hear yards away.

I think what else makes it difficult to hear is that some of the new FTTC turns off the fans when not required, so if the cabinet is cool inside the fans will either be running very slowly or even stopped and they only turn on when it starts to warm up inside.

This was done to reduce power requirements and also wear and tear on the fans, which does make sense.

This was told to me by friendly BT Engineers and BT Staff members that I have spoken to over the last couple of years.

So whether that is true or not, but that's what I was told.

Paul

Definitely no fans active inside the cabinet. I'm hoping it's what you've said about being temperature activated, but today seemed a pretty warm day (possibly warm enough to heat the internals?) - although maybe that's just in contrast with the weather we've been experiencing.

It's starting to worry me now as the silver locks been there for practically a week now, yet every mention of it on these forums has gone live within 2-5 days. Our cabinet isn't even on the activate stage yet.

Do you know if electricity wiring works for the cabinet are usually listed on roadworks.org? I've been checking for the past 2 years and have never seen any nearby electrical listings, although it could've been done much longer before (cab has stood since 2013).

Edited by thebigdolphin1 (Wed 15-Mar-17 22:03:24)

In reply to a post by thebigdolphin1:

Definitely no fans active inside the cabinet. I'm hoping it's what you've said about being temperature activated, but today seemed a pretty warm day (possibly warm enough to heat the internals?) - although maybe that's just in contrast with the weather we've been experiencing.

I would think that the fans are temperature controlled, it would make sense for it to be for when it looses power and has to use the battery backup.

In reply to a post by thebigdolphin1:

It's starting to worry me now as the silver locks been there for practically a week now, yet every mention of it on these forums has gone live within 2-5 days. Our cabinet isn't even on the activate stage yet.

Maybe the lock is on there due to all the fibre hardware is in there and just the power is still waiting to be done and the padlock is just there to protect the fibre hardware.

In reply to a post by thebigdolphin1:

Do you know if electricity wiring works for the cabinet are usually listed on roadworks.org? I've been checking for the past 2 years and have never seen any nearby electrical listings, although it could've been done much longer before (cab has stood since 2013).

Erm, they are normally shown on roadworks, I have seen in locations electrical work around a cabinet in the past, so i don't see why that would change now.

Paul

Could they install the internal fibre hardware prior to the actual fibre cables being run up to the cabinet, or would they have to wait until that is completed? As far as I'm aware, they may have not even got that far yet as they were only clearing ducts a few weeks back, and I haven't seen anyone blowing fibre down them (I pass the area around 12-2pm every day, which seems to be when they are most active with works).