Greenlee 910FS - Appendix B. Practice Splicing; General Precautions for Practice; Checking Splice Quality with Test Setup

910FS Splicer
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Appendix B. Practice Splicing
General Precautions
• Refer to the 910FS and 910CL user manual.
• Clean all connectors before making a connection.
It is highly recommended that new 910FS users use the AUTO mode splicing
profile until they have become proficient at splicing.
Checking the Splice Quality of the 910FS
The user should practice splicing with the type of ber that they will use in their
installation before attempting to splice bers in those installations.
The following procedure should be used to practice fusion splicing ber cables:
1. Identify the eld ber type by consulting the ber manufacturer’s data sheet.
2. Obtain an approximately 10 m length of ber (same as eld ber).
3. Determine if this ber type has a pre-programmed splicing prole in the 910FS.
Usethis prole for splicing.
4. If there is not an exact matching splice prole, use the AUTO mode splicing prole.
5. Splice a ber pigtail with a suitable connector for their source/power meter of like
ber to one end of the 10 m ber.
6. Splice a ber pigtail with a suitable connector for the source/power meter of like
ber to the other end of the 10 m ber.
7. Connect a laser (SM) or LED (MM) source to one end of the ber and a power meter
to the other end of the ber. Refer to Figure 1.
8. Zero the power meter. Refer to Figure 2.
9. Cut the 10 m piece of ber in the middle and splice it back together. The power
meter should read 0dB PLUS allowable splice loss X2.
10. The splicing technician should repeat step 9 until they are able to reliably splice
using the desired ber.
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Optical Source
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Meter
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10 m of Test Fiber
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λ 2
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Optical Source
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10 m of Test Fiber
Figure 1 Figure 2