Hands-On
OSP Tester, Fault Locating & Cable Troubleshooting
any test meter can be incorporated

RCDD:	14
OSP:	14
Installer:	14
Technician:	14
Certified Trainer:	14

Course Description:
This 2-day hands-on course will teach your technicians to operate and fully understand the menus on their testing and fault locating equipment. Students will learn loop parameters needed to provide the many services customers are demanding in todays communications world. There will be in-depth instruction on maintaining the outside plant and how to successfully locate problem areas. This will include resistive and capacitive faults, power influence, and other problems associated with analog and digital transmission.

All loop testing is reinforced with hand-on exercises and can be taken to the field if applicable.


The students will use state-of-the-art test equipment such as the Dynatel 965 DSP, Sidekick Meter, and incorporate any meter(s) that students can bring to the session to use during the hands-on lab procedures throughout the course. Locating buried cables will also be covered and fault simulators will be used during the hands-on lab exercises to reinforce Real-World Experience.

Emphasis will be placed on how to effectively use OSP Test Equipment. Most technicians in the field today only utilize about 30 of this test instruments capabilities our goal is to have a 100 of their test instruments capabilities put to use in the field. No sales pitch in this course, just training! Our SMEs have the field experience to find the answers to real live scenarios, providing students with a Real-World Experience

This course is designed to give the attendees the knowledge of not only how to test with a fault locating meter, but most important, understand what the meter is telling them. All of the explanations of cable and faults are reinforced with hands-on exercises. This is done with actual cable to give a full understanding of the menus.

Students Will Learn:

• Understand Fault Location
• Identify Locate Faults in Copper "pic" Outside Plant Cables.
• Analyze a Faulted Cable Pair
• Select the Correct Test Set to Locate the Fault
• Locate Buried Cables
• Locate Resistive, Capacitive Cross-Battery Faults using
• Multiple Test Sets.
• Cable Pair Balance
• Understand TDR Operation
• Understand Wideband Testing
• Use Advanced Trouble Analysis
• Incorporate Their Own Meter throughout the Hands-On Labs.
• Use Fault simulators in the Labs, providing Real-World Scenarios.
• Loop Parameters
• Operate and make the test equipment work for them
• How to identify Faults
• Choose the proper test equipment menu
• TDR Operation
• Pinpoint Fault Location
• And More

Course Length:
2 Days