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Figure 44: Splice box with cable and pigtail

3.2.8 Termination of Sensor Cables

A length corresponding to a few sampling intervals (20 m at a sampling interval of 3 m) of the sensor
fibre at the remote end should not be used for temperature monitoring or heat detection because of
a possible optical interference from the fibre-end. Correspondingly, the last 20 meters of sensor ca-
ble should be deposited in a cable duct, or the same length of bare sensor fibre should be deposited
in a proper splice (Figure 42, Figure 43) or termination box (Figure 45). The fibre-end must be prop-
erly terminated to avoid excessive back reflection of laser radiation into the sensing fibre. Otherwise,
measurement accuracy close to the fibre-end might be affected.

We supply optional termination boxes (Figure 45) including properly terminated fibres with a length
of 20 meters each. The fibre lengths inside the box or cassette just have to be spliced to the sensor
fibres for correct termination.

Figure 45: Termination box

The termination kit (Figure 46) may be used if no termination box is available. The kit is used as fol-
lows:

x Remove 50 mm of the cable sheath.

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x Remove 45 mm of the inner cable tube.

x Remove 20 mm of the fibre coating.
x Clean the fibre.
x Cut the fibre end almost diagonally using the fibre cleaver. The resulting cleaving angle must
be larger than 20°.
x Slide the fibre end into a 60 mm long hot-melt splice protection sleeve. Locate the fibre end
in the middle of the splice protection sleeve. Melt the adhesive using a hot air gun (220°C).
x Slide the black heat-shrinkable tubing 25 mm over the cable sheath. The heat-shrinkable tub-
ing should protude 25 mm over the splice protection sleeve. Fix the tubing using the hot air
gun. Press the end of the hot tubing slightly together to securely seal the end.

Figure 46: Termination kit comprising hot-melt splice-protection sleeves and black heat-shrinkable tubings

3.2.9 Repair of Sensor Cables

Warning!

In case of any damage to a sensor cable, switch off the controllers connected to the cable as soon as
possible.

Cut out the damaged sensor cable section and replace it with a new cable length. Set two splice
boxes as described in section 3.2.7.

Lay the replacement sensor cable with 3 to 5 m extra length on each end as compared to the dam-
aged cable. Set the two splice boxes in the middle of the overlaps to ensure that sufficient fibre
length is available for splicing (Figure 47).

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