Multiple voice drop comfig 1

[exverizon]

I'm having a job soon to term three numbers on a couple dozen voice drops. I hate to "daisy chain" the cross connects on a 66 block because it's so much of a mess to troubleshoot later and looks like crap. What's your preferred method of connecting this many drops? I guess I could get a hub and patch panel it, but that seems overly expensive. I've got one of those older 66 blocks from the Western Electric days with six unsplit clips across, 25 pairs down that would do it...but that's the only one I've got. Hate to use it.

Any preferences?

 

[TouchToneTommy]

Take an extra 66M160 split block, and on the left side, neatly loop the first line to the first 8 positions. Then the 2nd line to the next 8, and then the 3rd line to the last 8. Take the jumpers to the station blocks from the right side, and bridge clip arcoss the middle. You can take two jumpers from each position. At the station block, you can bridge clip across the the opposite cable. For troubleshooting, you can still pull bridge clips at the dial tone block, and then at the station block.

 

[dhnl]

QCBIX5A with the bridging clips.

 

[bkrike]

They still make the 66 blocks with 6 unsplit pairs. the part number is S66B4-25 (siemons)

Here is a link...

http://www.siemon.com/uk/oem/66block.asp

 

[exverizon]

bkrike--Hey, thanks for that link. I've been looking for that page again for some time now (I used to have it in an old bookmark list, but had lost it).

DHCINC--Do you have a source for bix blocks an associated clips? I couldn't find much. How does the 5A version work?

 

[ISDNman]

Siecor makes a Mux block that is 1 in and 5 out. It is meant to mount in a Fiber Mux outside enclosure, but it is perfect for this application.

I like these combined with the non-mult version for cross connect in residential SOHO applications because they do not require a punch tool, so the educated consumer can change cross connects. I'll be installing a bunch of these in my house this summer.

The have these little caps that hinge open and you put the conductors in and hinge them shut again.

See the FLEXBET 50 pair cross connect and the Mux Blocker here:

http://www.corningcablesystems.com/web/library/litindex.nsf/$ALL/EVO-199-EN/$FILE/EVO-199-EN.pdf

Also see the following that are more general purpose:

http://www.corningcablesystems.com/web/library/litindex.nsf/$ALL/COP-61-EN/$FILE/COP-61-EN.pdf

http://www.corningcablesystems.com/web/library/litindex.nsf/$ALL/TEL-212-EN/$FILE/TEL-212-EN.pdf

Sorry, I don't have prices on these - I got some of the FLEXbet mux cheap on Ebay and was really impressed by them. They even have gel so there are water resistant.

YMMV

Good luck