Re: Fiber Optic Cable Lighting Strike??

makes it easier to find later on by the installing co if they need to
service it or mark the path for future digging..
RTS


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On Wednesday it was said to me by a customer that a lightning bolt
hit
the fiber cable to their house and blew the Fiber box off the wall.
Verizon had to replace the whole box.

It was stated to the customer by (I assume) the Verizon guy, that the
lightning strike that hit a tree and blew out the ground from the
tree
in a line to across the driveway (some 30 feet long)to a point where
the
fiber is buried. This point is easily 1/4 mile from the house and
followed it to the Fiber/Phone box blowing it off the wall and
knocking
out the phone service.

I had to replace the phone line protector that I had installed on the
security panel. Panel was ok and functions with out a problem.

There a lot of "Say What's???" and "Really's??" in the story above.

The fiber runs on top of the underground power cables that run beside
the driveway.
that's impossible. one of the reasons to go with fiber is it's immune
to
lightening.
The fiber itself is... a metal-sheathed fiber cable isn't.

I haven't used fiber but that seems stupid to make it suseptible to
lightening like that.

It would be stupid to bury something that (relatively) delicate without
some sort of physical protection.


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