Training weekly maintenance of splicing and measurement equipment

Training weekly maintenance of splicing and measurement equipment

For high-quality operations in the fiber optic infrastructure, it is mandatory that splicing and measuring devices are regularly calibrated and in faultless condition. In this workshop, participants will learn which weekly cleaning and checks are to be carried out on splicing and measuring devices.

 Agenda

• Splicing device
  • Selection of the correct cleaning products
  • External cleaning of instrument and transport case
  • Cleaning of fiber optic overlays and down holder, V-groove, and optical lenses
  • Replacing electrodes and performing instrument self-test
  • Splice settings on the device and general operation settings
  • Read out of data and use of accessories
    
    
• Cleaver
  • External cleaning of instrument and removal or fiber optic residues
  • Cleaning of fiber optic overlays and cleaver blade
  • Checking cleaver blade and cut
  • Operation settings of cleaver
    
    
• OTDR
  • External cleaning of device
  • Checking and cleaning the ferrules (OTDR and fiber launch)
  • Operation settings on the OTDR and software update
  • Check calibration date
  • Data formats and data storage