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Update: Fiber terminations used to scare me off
Saw a stat saying 90% of signal loss comes from bad connections. Found it in a manufacturer's white paper. Now I take triple the time on every pigtail splice. You guys ever run a test after redoing a termination?
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aaron88413d ago
Triple time is still rookie numbers man. You gotta go full ritual mode now. Light a candle, say a little prayer to the fiber gods, maybe do a dance before you touch that cleaver. lmao. After rushing through a dozen terminations one day and getting 30% loss on half of them, I started treating each splice like I was defusing a bomb. Redid a bad one last week and my OTDR trace went from looking like a drunken zigzag to a flat line. Night and day difference. Now I swear it takes me longer to prep the fiber than to actually crimp the connector.
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