It’s 2010, which means it’s almost the future, which means pretty soon your speaker wire-stripping and Cat 5 cable-crimping skills will about as useful as knowing how to cobble a pair of shoes. Here’s how you splice fibre optics. [TWUntangled] \
It’s 2010, which means it’s almost the future, which means pretty soon your speaker wire-stripping and Cat 5 cable-crimping skills will about as useful as knowing how to cobble a pair of shoes. Here’s how you splice fibre optics. [TWUntangled] \
Sylver
Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 10:57 AMLook out, he’s training Splicers!
BinarySkolex
Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 11:12 AMSo not really a job for your average home hobbiest then?
Daniel
Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 11:42 AMSo instead of stripping and doing the typical western union splice, you feed it into a machine…. How practical.
At least they don’t use fibre for power just yet
Stephen Earp
Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 12:14 PMThis is old hat – I’ve been splicing optic fiber cables for years with a pocket knife and a lighter! haha (I’m pretty confident that no one will be splicing their own cables any time soon..)
Quozl
Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 5:15 PMNew from Ronco it’s the FibreSplice 3000 all for the low low price of $9.95
kakyoin01
Monday, August 2, 2010 at 9:25 AMthe machine is so much advance than the 1 i use in the uni lab
Kevin Russell
Monday, August 2, 2010 at 12:57 PMCan you splice fibre in the uni lab? If so how does that work?
soho
Monday, August 2, 2010 at 1:26 PMWe use the same fujikura splicers at work, looks like he did a pretty bad (ie. high loss) splice there