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FieldSmart
®
FxHD Frame
Installation Manual
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Manual 014815 REV C - Feb 2018
Use the included mounting screws to fasten the cable clamp shells and cable
to the clamping location as shown.
Note:
It is best to start by clamping cables in the rear of the frame first and
work toward the front.
Note:
If more than 5 cables will be entering the frame on any one side, it is
best to double stack the clamps as shown. Longer screws are included with
the FxHD cable clamp kit (P/N 015277) in order to accomplish this.
Create a slack loop with the buffer tube as shown (allowing
for an additional 3ft/1m of fiber to splice inside the cassette)
and mark the buffer tubes with a marker. For a group of 12
buffer tubes, a good rule of thumb is to make the loop as long
as the 12 cassettes you are splicing.
After placing a mark on the top buffer tube, begin marking
each buffer tube 1” shorter for a neat slack loop.
Note:
This loop can be smaller toward the bottom of the
frame.
Splice the cassettes one at a time and store the slack up to
the mark shown, per the cassette splicing instructions (see
Clearview Blue Cassette Installation Manual and/or video).
Once the cassettes are spliced in, you can now slide the cassettes into the frame. Below is a side view of a cassette. The
highlighted T-rail of the cassette slides into the channel of the black ganging bracket.
The FxHD comes with optional bridge lances for buffer tube organization. Carefully securing the bundle of buffer tubes to
these allows for a nice clean finish and look. Clearfield recommends “snake skin” or “split loom” tubing to put around and
organize the buffer tubes.
