How to Become a Network Cabling Technician Training | Low Voltage | Part 1 | Bridgecable.com

welcome to the bridge cable new hire training video in this two-part video you will learn all of the steps of a network cabling installation from start to finish part one of the training series will overview the entire process from preparing all the way to the end locations part two of this video series will then review terminations patch panels and finishing out the job getting prepared for your network cabling installation prior to actually starting your cable pools you are going to want to make sure that you understand the type of environment that you are working with is it an open ceiling enclosed or will you be pulling cables in a confined location not only will understanding this determine how you are going to execute the job but it will also determine what type of equipment you will need to use for open sealing you may be needing to use a j-hook rattle ring d-ring or even use of tie wraps for enclosed you may need to utilize conduit the walls or columns if you're working with a confined space you may need to utilize cable tray furniture raceway or even power poles it is also recommended that you review your map carefully this way you can get comfortable and know where your drops will be located you will also be familiar with any specific labeling in regard to your network map and you'll be able to determine your streets and avenues we're also called arteries and branches you want to have a pathway for your cables your trunk so as of right now here's my server room right here and i am having a path come down this way and i have an i-beam that goes across this way um it's just drywall up in the ceiling so i really don't have anything there's no a-frame or anything it's just maybe one or two pieces of i-beam so i'm going to come down here with my my j-hooks come across the i-beam where i'm going to hang about 20 to 30 j-hooks you want to hang them about four to six feet apart for support you know nothing laying on any ceiling tiles but streets and avenues we don't want to go diagonal because it just looks unprofessional in the ceiling so i'll have another one there's another i-beam around here so again i'll come across here with more j-hooks and then just branch off to a drop to another drop you don't want nothing going in diagonals i can't stress that enough so i'm going to have a path that comes straight down the wall where my mdf is and when i say streets and avenue it's going to come down this way and if you come along this side you can see the j-hooks hanging on the beam clamps here so it'll come down and loop up and go straight across but before you do anything make sure that you have your safety gear such as a hard hat safety glasses safety vest as well as your steel toed boots the use of string if you have the opportunity you will want to run a string line prior to pulling any cable some of the different methods using the string will be a tape toss fish tape and or use of a fish pole let's go ahead and review some tips with the team take that and go like that it's called a half knot and what you'll do is slide it over and just pull it tight hold one in do another half knot slide it over pull it tight now at the end it's called be a friend leave an end pull the tape down like that and pull it off this way there's always an end you can see to rip it off instead of sitting here going like this trying to look for which way the guy's taped so be a friend leaving in that's it so if you already have an existing string on there you can just cut it off leave yourself a tail and then to join two strings you simply hold them together and bam you're ready to go tape toss where you tie on your screen to your tape and you want to still make sure you get over top of everything in the ceiling and we're just going to go ahead and throw it and we'll get her down labeling your cable while there are different methods of labeling you can use a sharpie a flag as well as a wraparound pre-printed label let's check out some quick tips in regard to labeling approximately 12 to 18 inches apart dixie standard is 18. that's how your numbers should look you want to put identifiers under them 6 and nine look a lot alike how am i supposed to know which way it is also you have two swipes on the back when you're looking for numbers on the cable it's got sides so you might pass over it but if you see those two stripes there's your number pulling the cable depending on your situation including the building as well as where your mdf or idf may be you will need to determine the method of pulling called coil toss where you have a coil of cable and same thing with uh with the tape you're just going to throw it make sure you go on top of everything bend here is using a green leaf fish tape he's going to fish up the wall once we get it to the top we will tie on our cable and pull it down [Music] like a lot of things in the network cabling installation field you will need to also prepare how you are going to pull in regard to people your pulling team should typically include some type of a feeder person a lead puller and a puller although we understand that not every job can require three people let's take a peek into a few cable pools [Music] [Music] [Music] support systems we pulled in about 12 cables to the small office and we're we're at the end location we're going to be putting our patch panel here it's just a small swing mount bracket and you often wonder how it's going to look at the end so there's different ways of dressing in your cables obviously you're going to use velcro for the final to make it look pretty okay but to keep it up against the wall um we use things these little things here are called d-rings [Music] and you put them in here and it basically holds the cables in place coming down okay so i will put maybe two or three of them in here use velcro at the end just to dress it and make it look nice now there's a couple of different options if you're in a warehouse and you have a big trunk it's not drywall out there um a lot of companies i see and it's a no-no when to stable a cable a chunk of cable um i've seen broader rings being used okay it's not good for the cable it's if you have these five feet apart in a couple years the bottom ones are gonna are going to to break okay so this is why we use j-hooks so what you could do in a situation if you're in a warehouse and you're coming down a block wall but there's a column okay in a way you can just take your your you can use a bridal ring here what you would do is just turn the beam clamp and just attach it to the high beam that's coming down and it'll just sit in if you have a big trunk or cable it'll just sit in here and then you can tie it up there and just make it look pretty these are j-hooks for above the ceiling uh cable management there's nowhere to hang your cables in an a-frame so what you would do is just follow the i-beam and you would need a j-hook a beam clamp and a little quarter twenty screw and mount preferably at the top give you some stability here's your drill the screws goes right in here you can use screwdriver drill sometimes sometimes [Music] and if you have a black clothing the anchors you can put into the block as you can see my hole is already pre-drilled use a hammer all right so we assembled two sticks already and then we're just gonna stick the sticks through the j hooks run the string through and that's pretty much it [Music] and then you just keep following down further and further you go you keep sticking to the j-hooks until you're done then you come back and you tie this end off so it doesn't pull away from you when you're ready to pull your wire end locations when you've pulled your cable to your end locations you will need to utilize different tools to get them to that final spot such as grommets straps buttons scoop caddies as well as you're going to need to cut drywall sometimes let's take a look at the team utilizing some of these tools across various projects all right so first thing we gotta do is drill a hole through the top with this special climb bit right here all right then you put this plastic grommet in there so the wires don't get chewed up on the sharp metal edges there we go that part is good so we'll do three top middle bottom all right this is what's called a mud ring boxland's got many different names basically it's something you would put in before the sheetrock goes on when you're putting these in everything is considered to center so if it says 18 inches after finish floor it's going to be to the center which is marked by a little notch over there so you measure up your 18 inches you mark it you put your notch up against your mark and you're good to go [Music] and then the sheetrockers could feed rock right over it so you're good to go all right we're gonna install a colorado strap basically what these are go on the 2x4 just so you get a glimpse of it they would go on like that [Music] these straps bend your cables are held in here this way they're away from the edge so when they drill in you're not gonna have to worry about hitting your cables so basically it's a way to secure your cables when it's coming down so the inside of our wall will be on this side so we're going to install the colorado strap on this side [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] instead of just doing this doing this doing this and throwing it up in the ceiling copper cable has a bend radius of four times the outside diameter so technically we could make this to almost an inch and it'd still be okay i hope we don't want to do that don't we boys no sir so if we're going to use this for later say we're just going to save it up there make your little coil [Music] [Music] then you can just take it and coil it up look how nicely it rolls up also it'll keep your cable from bends kinks and all the other things that can ruin the transmission rate of your cable once you get it to your spot tie wrap it tape it and hang it up on something and then it's there for future use you want to make sure that there's no studs where you're going to be putting the caddy so you use your handy dandy stud finder and we are in the clear because we were going to install right here find your mark 18 inches [Music] and it's it's great to have one of these tools that traces out the the caddy so you can cut it so you want to find your halfway mark 18 inches we are gold and we want to make sure it's level it comes with the level and you just want to go ahead and trace this always always use a pencil if you happen to use a sharpie or a pen and you didn't have a stud finder then you're not left with sharpie or pen on the wall you want to go horizontal first if we do hit a stud in the wall we can always go back the other way always have a piece of paper for your dust no stud we're in a clear uh [Music] uh ahead and slide it right in no adjustments need to be made we're good and before you completely tighten it up you want to take another level just to be on the safe side and make sure you're level [Music] and there you go level caddy thank you for watching be sure to check out part two to finish out your cable installation job

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Length: 19min 57sec (1197 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 23 2020