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battleop

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Re: That's why

What do you think the fiber is suspended from? It's not a copper cable but it is conductive. I bet there is copper coming from that FIOS box on the side of your house to your telephone.

A few years one side of our fiber ring went down due to lighting. My first though was huh? how did that happen. What happened was lighting struck the cable mid span and it traveled the steel cable and the metal cable that wraps the fiber to the steel cable to the nearest pole and then to ground. The fiber was destroyed because it was melted.


cdru
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Do you think that if there was copper based service that the lighting strike would have spared the copper line? No, I don't think so either. The problem in that case wasn't fiber/copper, it was that lighting stroke the line. Nothing will protect against that ever, well, maybe a buried line. If it was copper based, it would have been much more probable that the copper would have been energized and anything attached to it inside the house likely would have been fried too.
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