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INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE TRAINING MANUAL
Contents
Air Flow testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
Pressure Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Continuity Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
Continuity Fault Finding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87
Air Flow Charts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
9.12 Blowing equipment for
fibre unit installation . 89
Blowing unit 2a (7016) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Blowing unit 2a – Blowing Head. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Blowing Head set up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92
Buckle Detector Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
Blowing Head control unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
The 15 Bar Dispenser (7855) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Flow Meter Kit (7778) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Fibre coiler 1a (7004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
9.13 Fibre Blowing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
Point to Point Blowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Onward Blowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Centre Blowing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Tandem Blowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Troubleshooting Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
Water in the Microduct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
10 Maintenance of
installation equipment . . . . . . . 107
10.1 Blowing Head. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
10.2 The Coiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
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Repair Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
11.1 Repairs to DB Bundles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
11.2 Repair Procedure for 1 DB Joint (code 7787) . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Appendix – Product Code Identification Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Terminology: IEC 60794 has defined that ‘tubes’ in the context of blown fibre products, shall be named ‘microducts’, since they are used as
ducts, awaiting the installation of micro-sized fibre cables (units) The abbreviation ‘m/d’ may be used henceforward, to mean ‘microduct’
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