February 12, 2009
Short!
The latest project involves 100 telephone lines. Testing the first 20 I had dial tone on 8, shorts on the other 12. The shorts all located by MLT (mechanized line test) to be at the customer premise. Pull the protectors, no change. Short a good line at the MPoE and it measures the same as the bad lines. Best I can test, the problem is in the splice case in the MPoE.
Most likely because the case was not supported and has pulled loose from the feed cable. And dropped over an inch, putting strain on splices, maybe stretching wires, cracking insulators, causing shorts. Told the Boss. He hands me a P-whatever form to fill out and carry over to Cable Maintenance, which I do. They said they'll get to it in a day or three.
And, as usual, I get a "by the way, while you're here, could you look at...." This time a guy couldn't connect to a network printer. Took a couple of minutes to fix.
Posted by Paladin at February 12, 2009 10:32 PMI saw that too. It's a wonder that an installer didn't report this a long time aqgo!
Posted by: Wingo at February 13, 2009 02:33 PM