Terminate Fiber in 5 Minutes

thanks for tuning into our first product training video shot live at CEO 2010 today we're going to talk about Viper termination with the AFL fast determination kit which includes your precision cleaver Kevlar scissors stripper cable clamps gauges cleaning supplies and of course the consumable part the fast termination élysée connector kit today we're terminating two a three millimeter simplex fiber you need to just cut it clean it up using the included cable clamp will help hold it all together forget to put your boots on before you start stripping the cable and when you strip it we give you a gauge there's another gauge it comes with the kit you just want to mark it even the Sharpie pen is included in the kit the strippers included in the kit are calibrated there are three step strippers and their precision calibrated for fiber cable so you want to use these strippers only and strip that off that the jacket comes off fairly easily inside there's the area mid fiber also known as Kevlar fiber and you just want to pull those out of your way to expose the buffer buffer is 900 micron is small so we want to mark that for the next step of stripping and you can't strip the buffer off all at once you need to strip it off at about 1 centimeter segments it helps if you hold the strippers at a slight angle that'll help from keeping the fiber the glass itself from getting kinked and bending and actually breaking if you start with the stripper at a slight angle I've shown then the fiber doesn't want to break down yet and just strip it back until you get to your mark now what you're exposing is the fiber but it still has a clear cladding on it the cladding is like a plastic stuff and as you strip the cladding off with a third step on the stripper you'll see that it it comes off sometimes clean sometimes it'll fall up on you but just keep going ahead a little bit at a time a centimeter at a time and keep stripping it until you get all the way back to the glue buffer and the glass is completely pointy at this point you're down to the bare glass and you're ready to put it to the cleaver you need to press the button in the front of the cleaver that gets it ready for use and insert the fiber strand into the trapdoor the clamp will hold a buffer down in place and the buffer goes on the number 10 mark and it leaves that easy that's gonna put a precision cleave on the end of the fiber next step is you need to clean it you need to decontaminate it from any finger oils or grease and leftover pieces of cladding so use the limp three claws that are included in the kit try not to get your fingers Reese on it first before you use it you just get some alcohol on it and draw the contaminants away from the end of the fiber and just rotate it 90 degrees and do it again you can do this several times if you see some additional contaminants now the fiber and the actual LC connector is preloaded in the tool and the kit and you just need to insert it into the back end until you feel it stop keep some slight pressure on it and squeeze the sides of the tool you'll hear it click and at that point your LC connector is connected to the fiber now you're ready to slide the boot up and you notice that Kevlar fibers are still too long and that's ok you want to get them hot in the threads and that gives it some mechanical strength and strangely just thread the glue gun until it is tight and then you can remove the tool just squeeze the sides harder and the tool will open up and allow you to see the full final connector now you can trim the Kevlar off and at this point you're done so you can remove the clamp and you've got a finished connector fiber termination in five minutes it's really that easy

Channel: NeoProTraining

Views: 465,212

Keywords: multimode, fiber, termination, training, AFL, FAST

Id: epTzemeJjAw

Length: 5min 18sec (318 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 28 2010