[Gllug] To LLU or Not to LLU?

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 27 Mar, Nix wrote:
> 
> On 27 Mar 2009, Chris Bell told this:
> > roads, etc. The following day only half the fibres worked. A hot dog stall
> > had been parked at the edge of the fairway, and the vehicle towing it had
> > driven into undergrowth, picked up the cable in the tyre tread, and wrapped
> > it round the wheel.
> 
> *wince*
> 
> >                     They had to cut the cable and weld all 12 fibres, and
> 
> My tiny mind just exploded. How do you *weld* optical fibre?
> 
> > ended up with a 5KM drum of cable with a joint in a diecast box about 2KM
> > from the end.
> 
> Cable? Is this fibre or copper?

   It was a sturdy ruggedised outer that looked like a power feeder,
containing 12 fibres that were not visible as separate fibres except at the
ends. I did not see the operation, but they had to cut through the complete
cable and heat weld the individual fibres using specialist equipment.
Apparently it was supposed to give a better result than an epoxy join.


-- 
Chris Bell NEW alternative address: chrisbell at chrisbell.org.uk
Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house.
www.overview.demon.co.uk

-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug