Yes they have fan alarms, environmental , power and communication alarm monitoring, in addition to door access alarms.

Does that apply to normal non fibre cabs too? (minus the fans as i dont believe they have fans in)

No, PCPs have nothing

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I love these old videos

Plus not so long ago (2 - 3 jobs back) we taught you engineers electrical engineering

In my day of locating Dside faults you simply kept digging Her Majesties tarmac until you found it. You either got very good at locating faults or you got a lot of hand and back problems. My hands are not great these days.

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In reply to a post by PaulKirby:

I love these old videos

Plus not so long ago (2 - 3 jobs back) we taught you engineers electrical engineering

In my day of locating Dside faults you simply kept digging Her Majesties tarmac until you found it. You either got very good at locating faults or you got a lot of hand and back problems. My hands are not great these days.

I liked the guy in the video look where the marker post was and did the distance steps, "Yep its down there" LOL

Yeah, my joints are very bad these days and that wasn't a pun.

Paul

There's no active hardware in a PCP, so nothing to monitor.

OMG that is just so funny ! So some fool belives all that rubbish and starts to dig a hole without opening a jointing post a few feet away ! Having done track and mark for years that is 100% not how you do it and i dont belive it ever was.And as for the guarding even in the 80's we did not use it in the real world .

Thanks for posting

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Top clip there Partial

That's what the network needs, more Teddy boys and comma vans .....

Not so many months ago that I cleared a fault in a plugs expanding either .

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This year i cleared a fault in a lead cable , working on paper prs was fun !

As for the shoes that guy was wearing for digging ! LOL

They were digging out a split coupling. It wasn't a jointing post, it was a marker for the split coupling. The marker indicated how many feet away the coupling was. Hence they stepped it out and dug on it.

Jointing posts did not exist in the 60s.

Every DP pair was connected to a pillar or cabinet. There was no need for joint boxes at the foot of the DP. as there was no need for pair diverts.

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Paper core unit twin was installed up until the mid seventies. Some of it later on was very badly twisted.(I'm looking at you Belfast Cable) as twists add to overall length and copper cost. Indeed unit twin was invented as it is easier to distribute than quad or concentric.

I have worked on 1930s and earlier British quad cables that were beautifully made. And German cables looted from the enemy or gained from war reparations still holding pressure and still giving good service.

The vast majority of the main side is lead or white poly paper core. That is why it is pressurised and why it is catastrophic if the pressure is not pro-actively maintained. It only gets wet once.

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