Yeah, we've pretty much decided that's what we're going to do. We're still figuring out the details.
Thanks everyone for bringing me (back) up to speed here. - Forrest On Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 11:15 AM Trey Scarborough <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Mike Hammett > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> 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. > >> > >> -- > >> > >> > >> - Forrest > >> -- > >> AF mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > >> > >> > >> -- > >> AF mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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