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Hit 500 terminations today. Made me think.
Been doing installs for 3 years and never counted before. Today I finished a job in Austin and realized I did my 500th coax termination. That's a lot of stripped cables and P-clips.
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wesley_thompson3mo ago
Quality matters more than the count" is right. I've seen too many jobs where someone rushed through terminations to hit a number and came back six months later to redo half of them. Take the extra 30 seconds to double check your braid and get a good compression.
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sanchez.mary3mo ago
I heard from a buddy who works for a big MSO down in Houston that they track terminations per tech like some kind of competition. He said one guy hit 1,000 in a year and got a bonus. 500 is nothing to sneeze at though, especially if you're doing it right with the compression fittings and checking for braid. A bad termination can crap out in a year or two, so quality matters more than the count at the end of the day.
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noah_chen173mo ago
Oh man, that's wild. 1,000 terminations in a year is like 3 a day every single day, not counting weekends. I've heard some of those MSOs treat it like a speedrun, but they never factor in the callback rate. You can crank out 1,000 easy if you're just smashing connectors on and moving on, but then you're back there next year fixing noise issues from loose braid or bad compression. Honestly, I'd rather do 500 solid ones that pass the first time than go for some golden ticket number.
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