Posted by alienchow 16 hours ago
FS provides account managers and they are very useful if you are working on a project as they can guide you and help you.
I have a Newegg business account (and maybe a few more for other pc stores, I'd have to check), but I literally never have them trying to get me to buy things. /shrug
It's cheap as chips and saves you a lot of future brick cutting or concrete breaking
In theory I can pull a new cable through. But practically it might be tough due to the number of bends (shelter -> wall -> vent -> ceiling -> wall -> floor -> room). In the worst case scenario I can give it a try, but it's probably going to destroy the new fibre cable when I pull it through. For now the connection still works, so I am hoping it doesn't get to the point where I have to give that a try.
AFAIK fibre cable should be pretty flexible, though not a massive fan of tension.
From memory bends shouldn't be less than 5cm radius or thereabouts so it depends on your conduit size!
Nice post btw, appreciate the detailed planning involved.
Say initially you need 2 wires from A to B. That probably means there's plenty of room left. So you just put 4 more other wires in there. When the time comes you need to pull a new one, you pull in the new by pulling out the old
We ran fibre cables in the ceiling when constructing our house. I requested the electrician to shield the cables with some tubing, but he probably thought I was being extreme. We have 9 cables, 2 of them don't work, likely from being bent by mistake or something.
The wiring is intermixed with electrical and ethernet (for cameras) cables, making the process a bit tricky. At least for us we might only have to cut the ceiling boards in a few places to help guide the replacement cables.
The soles (rubber because winter) are in perfect condition, and the leather isn't too bad either, though I've not really conditioned it enough and it's starting to show.
It seems like wizardry when you first see it, but actually fusion splicing fibre is not hard at all once you’ve done it a few times.
The most important part is the cleaving, always use a high quality cleaver.
Chances are very high the fibres themselves in the cables are absolutely fine, they are remarkably resilient given their size.