Rodents are a type of rodent with strong reproductive and vitality. They have a sensitive sense of smell, no tooth roots on their front teeth, and can grow for life. They must wear and tear to achieve growth balance. One of their natural instincts is to bite and grind their teeth. Due to the habit of rodents gnawing on objects to maintain their sharp teeth, and the special odor of the materials used in optical cables, communication optical cables often become the target of rodent bites. Rodents continuously gnawed on the fiber optic cable until it broke, causing a communication interruption accident.
What are the current conventional methods for preventing rodents?
At present, conventional rodent prevention methods mainly use chemical and physical methods. The chemical method mainly uses repellents, but it has not been adopted by national standards due to its adverse effects on the environment. The physical method mainly provides external physical protection for optical cables to prevent rodent bites. This mainly includes metal armor (such as stainless steel strip+inner protective layer, steel strip+nylon) and non-metal armor (glass fiber yarn armor, FRP armor).
What are the commonly used models of anti rodent optical cables with good effectiveness?
Taking into account the tower load and spatial routing density of the transmission line, as well as the number of cores, outer diameter, cost, anti rodent effect, manufacturing cost, and construction maintenance cost of the optical cable, GYTS, GYTS04, GYTA53, GYTS54, GYFTY73 and other types of optical cables are mainly used for the construction of optical cable lines in areas with frequent rodent infestations.
How to obtain excellent anti-rat performance?
The fiber optic cable models described above use different methods to prevent rodents and have varying degrees of effectiveness. Below are their rodent prevention methods and differences in effectiveness:
GYTS
This model of optical cable starts from the biting source and uses chemical methods to add a spicy agent to the PE sheath material. It will stimulate mice, causing them to develop a sense of fear and stop biting. The initial effect is good, but the spiciness agent has volatile properties, so its protective ability decreases after volatilization.
GYTS04
The main protective function of this type of optical cable comes from the outermost nylon protective layer and the middle steel strip armor. The nylon layer is bonded to the PE outer cover of the optical cable through adhesive and graft copolymerization. Nylon material has the characteristics of high hardness, colorless and odorless, and smooth molding surface. Its Shore hardness can reach over 70, which can effectively delay the bite of rodents. The steel tape armor in the optical cable can effectively prevent penetration and has good overall anti rodent performance.
GYTA53
This type of optical cable adopts physical protection. It is protected by stainless steel armor and high-density PE outer protection with high hardness. The overall hardness and toughness of the optical cable outer protection are good, and the anti rodent effect is good.
GYTS54
This type of optical cable has increased the thickness of its steel belt armor, and also uses high-density PE outer protective layer and high hardness nylon layer, with multiple layers of anti rodent properties, possessing excellent anti rodent performance.
GYFTY73
The internal structure of this type of optical cable contains fiberglass yarn, which plays the most important role in preventing rodents. Its principle is that when a mouse bites through the outer protective layer and the fiberglass yarn breaks, it will stab the mouse's mouth, stimulating the mouse to stop biting and achieving the purpose of rodent prevention. However, due to the limited thickness of fiberglass yarn, the anti rodent effect is average.
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References
Yang Dong, Li Tao, Wang Yaoming Discussion on the anti rodent performance of butterfly type introduced optical cable [J] Modern Transmission, 2017 (03): 58-61.
[2] Wang Shaoyang Research and application of rodent damage prevention for ordinary optical cables [J] Electric Power Information and Communication Technology, 2015 (013) 006:124-227.