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Would You Like To Play Around with a Live Fiber Optics Detector?

rscasny

We have 3 of Fluke's Fiber Optics Detectors in our office. Would you like one to play around with?

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Here's some info about the detector:

Quickly verify fiber activity, polarity, and connectivity with the FiberLertTm Live Fiber Detector. This pocket-sized tool tests single-mode, multimode, UPC and APC patch cords and ports with a non-contact / non contaminating detector.

The LightBeatTm feature flashes the LED, indicating a powered-on condition andgood battery, a timer shuts FiberLertTm off after five minutes of inactivity to extend battery life (2xAAA, included).

  • Detects optical power in single-mode and multimode fiber wavelengths (near infrared range 850 nm to 1625 nm)
  • No setup or interpretation needed – light and sound indicate presence of an optical signal
  • “Non contact” detector reduces the risk of contamination and damageSuitable for ports and patch cords, SM, MM, UPC and APC connections
  • LightBeatTm flashes to indicate operation and battery status; powers off after five minutes of inactivity to preserve battery life (2xAAA, included)

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  • That's definitely a handy tool for network technicians working in datacenters where fibre is all over the place.

    I remember my early days when I was an intern in a new building facility - they were trying to work out which fibre went where. We had no detectors - so we pointed the fibre at a rack and looked for a reflection as someone shined a red pen laser down the other end ...

    I was so tempted to just look into the end of a fibre - but just like looking down the barrel of a gun, it's a very dangerous thing to do, as invisible IR can cause eye damage ... I got screamed at just because I dared to move some fibre connectors which may or may not have been live ...

    - Gough

  • in reply to Gough Lui

    Gough, You get your eyes burnt up that way...  years ago I worked for some lawyers the partners wanted a new phone sys just for them... We put in a Northern Telcom Norstar, which went through the Northern Telcom BIG Switch :( It was a room full of cabinets 20-30? They sold me the high switch for $1.00 and it was a larger Norstar system as well. they were spread over 3 or 4 floors including the partners' offices 3 floors up. plus all of the connectivity (Ethernet for floors) and fiber backbone. So we ordered a custom-built harness it came on a large spool on a little trailer. So we had to winch it up 40+ floors, tied it off, and went to lunch,  When we came back some SOB had cut the winch cable and we found it in the basement. The harness was roached! we had to wait for another 3 weeks to get a replacement. (Thankfully the insurance paid for it. )

  • in reply to phoenixcomm

    Wow, this brings memories for me too. I worked briefly for Nortel and remember those switches. It took up an entire floor in a building, and I had the pleasure (or short straw : ) to occasionally configure it (just a tiny fraction of it!, many departments shared it, it was used for various testing purposes).

    It was one of my first jobs and I didn't really understand much of what it did (it wasn't core to what I was supposed to be doing), but I was still interested. Towards the end of each week, I'd request various parts of product documentation to be printed and bound for me, so I could try to read up over the weekend to learn a bit!

    I left after about 9 months, because I was being under-used, mainly messing with spreadsheets all day, which wasn't what I'd imagined in a career. It was a great place to work aside from that. Everyone was super-friendly. It's a shame what happened to it.

  • in reply to shabaz

    imageLucent bought them... and POOF! No More.  The pic is the switch I used in my business I actually partitioned it. one partition ran a tie network for 4 Chinese restaurants.  In each of the restaurants I installed Merlins (Lucent) in this way, any restaurant could take to any other. Dial 9 got the interlink and one more digit got you the store. Ah, the days of ISDN. Data on one side and voice on the other. We also hosted their order system.  Before I was done I was using about a dozen of ISDN lines where 4 bonded lines 64kx4 (two per line) for my data. (256K)

  • This is the first time I am knowing about fiber optic detector. I am familiar with fluke lux meter. But I never came across this one earlier.