(Air-Blown) Fiber Added

摘要

Sometimes, customer requests turn out to be very good things. When a customer approached the team at Hilscher-Clarke Electric in Canton, Ohio, about outfitting its plant with air-blown fiber (ABF), Bill Habyan, RCDD, project manager and industrial division manager, said it prompted his company to add the technology to its repertoire. That project is long since completed, but ABF is still contributing to Hilscher-Clarke's revenue stream today. One reason ABF installations are attractive to both electrical contractors and customers is that they typically require significantly less effort than pulling cable the old-fashioned way. Once the backbone of pathways and conduits is complete, future installations are a relative snap. Habyan's group, for example, relies on a 19-tube configuration in most ABF installations, with each tube acting as a future pathway for new fibers. "The beauty is that, once we put the 19 tubes in, the hard work is done," he said. Even when tube runs are several thousand feet long, Habyan said, "I can blow new fibers in with two guys-one on the sending end and one on the receiving end. It cuts your labor tremendously down the road."