Question about a fiber splice enclosure I saw on a job in Austin last week

The tech had run the drop cable directly into the house-side port without using the internal slack storage, which seemed like a bad practice for future repairs.

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leem344d ago

Saw that exact thing on a fiber job in San Antonio last month. It feels like a symptom of rushing to close out work orders without thinking ahead. That lack of internal slack basically guarantees the next tech will have to do a full re-splice for any minor fix. It's the same shortcut mentality that leads to buried service loops and tangled messes in pedestals.

foster.drew4d agoMost Upvoted

Tell me about it. Watched a crew in Dallas leave maybe six inches of slack in a whole bundle behind a new apartment building's terminal. Next guy shows up for a simple add, has to redo every splice because you can't even pull out a single strand. It's the same rush job logic that creates those impossible knots in handholes where everything is just yanked tight.