yeah Im on the same page panels with long enough tail to get outside or
to a specific splice point in the building. If its a hut or small
building we would typically just go out to the closest hand hole and do
the splice there. If its in a building we will usually build our own
splice enclosure for all cables from each path out of large Hoffman type
metal wall enclosure. You can get a lot of splices in a 36" x 42" x 12"
enclosure especially if its ribbon spliced.
On 7/30/25 20:29, Chris Fabien wrote:
We've found the pre-loaded panel with a long enough pigtail to get you
outside to be the preferred approach. Our latest fiber hut has 3x 432F
panels, and for now has 3x 288F coming into it.
When I've tried to do a 288F in the back of a large patch-N-Splice
style panel it always ends up a huge mess and it's very hard to
service if you need to fix a bad splice or something.
On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote:
This might be a middle of the road.
https://thinklynn.com/products/categories/bladehd/
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From: "Forrest Christian (List Account)" <[email protected]>
To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 12:13:41 PM
Subject: [AFMUG] "Central Office" style fiber patch panels
I'm looking for a source/model/etc for fiber patch panels, which are similar to those
found in a comm room/meet me room/etc. I think these might be called "distribution
panels".
Specifically, one designed to be mounted in a 2-post rack, with the fixed plant
cable/splicing all happening in the rear, and the patching all happening in the
front, and no need to unmount/move the patching in the front if some splicing
work needs to occur in the rear. That way, the outside plant people can do
their work in the rear without having to deal with patches in the front.
So far, almost everything I've seen tends to be either cassette-based, where
you do all the terminations and then somehow mount that in a rack, but if you
have to gain access to the splices again, you have to pull the whole cassette
out, OR the style where the entire splice tray and connectors slide out the
front - in which case you have to leave enough slack or otherwise pay special
attention to the patching for the slide-out function to work after you have
several patch cables plugged in.
An ebay search for "adc fiber distribution panel" gives me some examples of
what I'm looking for, but they aren't exactly plentiful and I also want to use something
consistent.
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