Guys:

I forgot to mention: What I refer to as a hand hole is more like a man hole. It is about six feet deep from the ground surface. My plan is to terminate the new cable in a bolted aluminum splice case where it will re-feed an existing 100 pair ALPETH cable. I also plan to put a 25 pair pole-mount terminal on the side wall to feed several 5-pair drops going out to multiple buildings. The remaining 75 pairs will be dead-ended for future use.

The station ends of the existing cables already have standard protection (Keptel network interfaces). I'm not really crazy about having all of these cable sheaths not bonded, but it's not every day that I work with power plants.


Ed Vaughn, MBSWWYPBX