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Set up for installing cable with the machine mounted below ground:
The set up is similar to the set up for installing cable above ground, (described above)
typically this type of installation is demanded for “series blowing” i.e. when a length of
cable is already installed, and the limit of installation distance is reached. In such
cases it is customary to couple a “series machine” sited down a manhole some
distance from the point of main installation. This machine operates in conjunction with
the machine sited at the main point of installation. The CBS Breeze machine is ideally
suited to this type of operation, it may be coupled with a second machine to increase
the distance a single cable can be installed without joins. The only difference between
this set up, and the set up for installing cable with the machine above ground, is that
there will be no drum stand carrying the cable drum. The cable will be exiting from one
side of the manhole and blown into the tube at the other side of the manhole. The
machine should be aligned with both the incoming cable and the outgoing tube path,
both side to side and up and down.
NOTE: THE MACHINE MUST NOT BE SUBMERGED IN WATER.
If the hole is full of water it must be pumped out before placing the machine on the
bottom of the hole.
