On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 10:55:34AM +0100, Thilo Bangert wrote:
On Thursday, February 07, 2013 08:04:41 PM Chuck Anderson wrote:
Is it that much harder to terminate the angled connectors?
no - its just a different type of pigtail, but adding another splice, will increase the insertion loss slightly.
When I looked inside the OADM module, I don't remember seeing any splices, but that may just be because I didn't look inside the optobox itself. I was under the impression that the connectors were not pigtails spliced to the optobox fibers, but rather directly terminated to the fibers emerging from the optobox. I'm not sure the optobox is meant to be opened. So my question is, how hard is it to put a raw angled connector onto a strand of fiber in the field without using factory pre-terminated pigtails? I assume the process would be the same as any other connector: insert strand, cleave, polish, but using an angled sleeve to polish the end at the correct angle?
we once ordered a cwdm splitter box at a different than usual place - as always with sc/apc connectors. the supplier changed the pigtails to accomodate our request. unfortunatly he didnt change the bulkheads, which was less than helpfull.
Wow, that would be confusing.