Cable Maintenance Tech - Splicing Hard Line Cable - Refer to Maintenance Call (Y6)
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2020
- I respond to a refer to maintenance (Y6) call for a dead tap.
This video is intended mainly for people interested in pursuing a career in cable maintenance, and less for maintenance/system tech veterans. All can feel free to enjoy, however! - Věda a technologie
I'm getting ready to move into a splicing position, watching your videos is helping a lot, seeing techniques and the basics of splicing and Maintenance work being done is helping me to understand outside plant operations and whatnot so ty very much sir
This reminds me a lot of working with aerial and buried telephone plant, many good memories, Southwestern Bell & AT&t
Nice video cable brother ! Very thorough and nice work
Hey sir I'm a network tech training at my local cable provider and love this video I see quite a few people asking about more videos. How are you after your wreck? I hope better by now. I appreciate the time you spend to help others out.
did this for 15 years perfect repair
Do you still plan on putting out more videos? I’m a maintenance technician in Toronto and like seeing how other techs trouble-shoot and repair plant.
I actually have one recorded right now. It's just a matter of editing and uploading at this point - so it shouldn't be too long!
@@cabledefined2592 okay no problem let us know, you do good work. Have a good day
I got kind of lucky where I work. I’ve been there almost 2 years and just joined maintenance because they’re so desperate for people. No one wants to work maintenance in my market. There’s another guy who moved over after 6 months. Kind of weird having a guy who knows less than me training me, but he knows a little more about the small things on the maintenance side and he’s smart. It used to be you had to be working resi for a few years and it was pretty hard to make it to the maintenance team. Definitely a learning curve.
Very late to comment but just did my interview to become a maintenance technician! Thank you for the video!
Hope you got the position! I'm 3 months in and it's awesome
Car sounds amazing!!!
Good video wish we had more!
Good job on the video!
Hey man love the video! I’m a field tech and want to go over to maintenance. I’ve only been a FT year but hopefully I can get to maintenance within the next 6 months. Keep up with the videos!
Glad you stumbled upon the channel! We plan on releasing an in-depth series of the functions of all active and passive devices in the plant. Stay tuned.
Cable Defined Looking forward to it!
Good job on the vid man.
Thanks, man!
If you want to really learn how to splice coax go to a school or they will teach you the proper way this guy doesn't know how to splice. And you never use a drill, it can actually spend your stinger somewhere in the cable if it's not done properly and one more note take your pliers and full that Stinger after you done it to make sure it's not broke somewhere in that cable from using a drill to court it out. I did it for 30 years I know how to do this shit. Good luck in your adventures and cable splicing will come to an end one day I won't be no more 500 cable or 750 cable the lobby fiber. Good luck
I’ve been at spectrum a year and a half. Just passed my ft6 exam and had an interview for maintenance. Hoping I got it
You should check out the Klein plier wrench. A little pricey but it’s a game changer for me.
Nice video. I did maintenance work for spectrum 3 years or so. Now I’m a ISP engineer out of Greensboro. Hit me up if any hub related questions you got.
Just a thought. A dull blade will do more damage than a sharp one.
Where can you find the wire and the splice connector? Help pls
drop more videos!
Nice video like
I am curious, how come this line did not have voltage going through it?
I am new to HFC, worked on it lightly and know fiber-optics more than anything.
The reason it didn’t have AC is due to there not being an active device past it (amplifier). He stated this line terminated not far from him.
There are situations in the wild where a shunt or fuse was left in a split or DC that directs AC down lines that it’s not needed, however when we find those we try to remove the AC from those legs to prevent a possible unwanted short.
I just got off a phone call from work where a sub has so many RTM tickets submitted but her internet service was still slow, 30 Mbps while she's subscribed to 1000 Mbps.
much better than copper splice
Using a loop makes this a much easier fix for direct burial to avoid resizing over and over.
Hard mains are very stiff and not easy to bend in a loop, especially in a tiny trench like that, and generally it's not a great idea to leave loops of main truck line in the ground. Almost any maint. guy worth his salt will do a tie-in or intercept this same way.
@@kyliam80 nothing stiff about 500... would be the easiest to loop but no need that will only cause more problems so i agree
Great job with the splicing, I want to get into cable jobs, do you have any advice on how to get started on this field?
I would either go to a trade school for it or just try to apply at places around you for a ground position. If they need people they will most likely hire and that's free training! But experience with tools and working as a helper helps a lot for getting hired.
@@ethanlyons6594 I'll keep that in mind, thank you! 🙏
Nothing beats experience. Get a job as a local cable tech doing installs and service calls and learn the basics (generally you don't need a crazy education or any specialized courses), then work your way outside to the infrastructure of it all.
Any new videos coming? I’m a Ft V just waiting on a. Position to open in Maintenance.
Hey, bud. I plan on getting back into the swing of things. I've been out awhile due to a wreck and surgery that followed.
@@cabledefined2592 Prayers buddy. Get better. What state do you work in?
@@xOv3rkiLLx I'm in NC. how about you?
@@cabledefined2592 Ol Florida sir! Do you work for a company that starts with S?
@@xOv3rkiLLx I do. lol
Dull ass knife you got there!
3:37 i chuckled here as i keep cutting all the wat thru it also. He-man strength not needed lol
You around anymore man?
Is this a Comcast system or something else? I always thought it would be cool to vlog a day or night of a line tech. those 2am on-call outages or when a construction cuts the crap out of our cables because they never called in for marks-outs, or they did and they still cut the damn cable, I was just worried about the "company" saying something if the name of the company gets shown online or someone finds out what company you are working for. If you are Comcast then you know all too well about all the learning courses we have to take on Workday about what is safe and not safe to post or talk about online.
If there is power will pulling the tap plate kill the power?
Not if there is a bypass bar. Some have it, some don't. I put in a tap plate with the pass through on the plate cut and shorted to the spigot closest to the end of the tap plate. This does 2 things. It doesn't pass power and it allows me to TDR the distribution without disconnecting anything. Spigot on the left TDRs the input. Spigot on the right TDRs the output (depending on brands). Saves me from going back to the amp or trunk to pull a fuse...or to replace one.
@@Todd.T I used these videos to get more money at a new job I started. I was able to claim that I had more experience then I really did. I am up to speed now but thanks for helping me start a new career and feed my kids in these hard times. I am try to scam my way into the fiber splice class now .
@@jamesbaker6691 Fiber is easier but at some point they are goingn to have to pay a goldmine for people that understand RF. Our networks are being converted to GPON and RPhy which takes 10 gig data feeds. There is no RF. Data over fibre to ethernet. All the modems have teh RF portion turned off and they are just used as wifi gateway/routers.
Analog RF is transitioning to OFDM/A carriers and there are a lot of issues with connectors, dirty fibers, broken node receivers, broken node transceivers, dead power supplies, broken AGC modules and the list goes on. Fiber only techs don't get paid more. Most of the work is subbed out to the lowest bidder.
All the old school RF guys are retiring and don't understand the new tools/computers or OFDMA.
Look at videos from The Volpe Firm and the Viavi meters website if you want t oreally see what is going on.
@@Todd.T Why would a company go HFC instead of 100% fiber ?
@@ronkali5365 Because of the equipment. If you have decades of RF equipment, you can't just flip a switch and cut them off. Telcos that never offered RF equipment use IP based services because they don't have the bandwidth of an RF network. So the first HFC networks brought fiber to the neighborhood to a node that served thousands, but upstream was limited. This didn't matter as people were just surfing and there was no downloading, online gaming or teleworking. The fiber was AIM (Analog Intensity Modulation) light that got converted to RF and then amplified. Over the years the upstream was segmented using WDM so multiple networks could share the same fiber and the amount of nodes increased decreasing the amount of customers per node and per upstream.
The IP based platform was released, but now you have to support the RF customers who:
1. Don't trust the new platform yet
2. Have purchased their equipment and don't want to pay more monthly in rent.
3. Have older TVs, stereos and other devices that don't plug into the HDMI only new style TV boxes.
4. Camera injection. Condos, rentals and gated communities have their own cameras that need to appear on a TV channel. All the old equipment will be useless all of a sudden.
Now you need to support two platforms while the Telcos only have to support one. In the back end the controllers are now changed to IP delivery but they go through a analog RF conversion to QAM and OFDM/A.
The advantage of this is that they can feed a pure IP based fiber to the home platform and still operate the traditional RF equipment.
Enter R-Phy and R-MACPHY at 1.8ghz. A fiber node that is fed IP and generates the RF in the node eliminated the need to generate RF far away, modulate it over fiber, transport it and then remodulate it to RF. The neighborhood is split so that you have no more than 120 homes passed per node max. The upstream channel has way more capacity and runs carriers that are more efficient. The downstream is larger and more efficient.
These networks can deliver 10 gig down/6 gig up over coax. These new nodes can also have the RF side removed and a fiber side added which will allow a conversion from RF to fiber.
Some buildings have only 30 people per segment and multiple brand new nodes. Speeds would still be impressive. There is a lower ping time on networks with less conversions.
When you go pure fiber, you either zip tie aerial access points and hang fiber to the houses or you have the huge cost of stitching the ground with fiber and placing ground vaults with splice points and GPON cabinets. This isn't cheap. If you are in a neighborhood with traditional cable and older people, they aren't going to switch to fiber for no reason.
Seriously most people have no clue and just think that any speed over fiber is faster. They think that 100mbps over fiber is faster than 100mbps over copper. Which is heavier a pound of lead or a pound of feathers? Most people that want more speed have some other issues like their end user equipment stinks or is configured incorrectly or the website they visit doesn't have enough bandwidth. My TV service is IP based and I watch a lot of streaming TV but my service was upgraded and it made zero difference to me. I now have 650/120 and it feels the same as 150/12. Another thing is most people can't even use the bandwidth they have because they use Wi-Fi only and don't have newer products that can access a network at any great speeds.
It's too bad that they give inhouse guys such crappy tools to work with. But they complain about system dependability. No jacket strippers, Cablematic coring tools, two piece fittings jeez it's a struggle.
3:05 making me nervous cutting towards your hand bro. Cant say I havent done it, but also cant say i haven't slipped and put my splicing knife into my palm
Why wouldn’t this coax be in a conduit. I understand it’s 500 and is “underground” coax but usually that should be in conduit. Stuff wrecks easier than you think.
Old build most older stuff was free buried
Because we don't put coax cable in conduit. It's not as if the conduit would've made any difference here, they'd've just dug up the conduit too. (fiber is about the only thing people bother to put in conduit, but not always.)
Everything is replaced in conduit. This situation the power company would pay the bill for repair and replacement in conduit
@@jfbeam all new coax is in conduit unless someone is cutting corners. Direct burial is very old school.
@@LeslieHarvey607 Some contractors put the conduit in concrete
i never use my splice knife, always us a linoleum knife
Where are your gloves sir? 😮lol
here in puerto rico quick fix rg11 cable with the adapters work done.....
Yeah, cheap snd lazy. Like the rest of your utility infrastructure.
Finite cable 😂😂
Like to know who taught you how to splice the 500 cable never use channel locks to tighten your connectors you want to hear that last click at the end and you want to clean that yucky crap off of your cable especially today using the frequencies they use that to clean your cable properly tighten it down with the right tools. The reason why you have to close at get suck out on. If you ever came on my job I would have fired you for using channel locks. I'm not going into details with you if you do it properly. Your signal at the end everything should be fine but if I looked on a spectrum analyzer and look at the beginning and the end of every one of your Spicer's I try c1000 faults, so take a little pride and what you do if you're going to show it on the internet show it the right way please. Just remember one thing your frequencies ride on the outside of Center which is called this stinger take a little more pride in what you do because the customer will always have problems when the cable is not done properly.
Unhinged comment. Nothing he did was wrong. If he didn't have pride in his work, I doubt he would have heat shrinked in the first place