How To Splice A Fibre Optic Cable

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] \

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    Sylver

    Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 10:57 AM

    Look out, he’s training Splicers!

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    BinarySkolex

    Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 11:12 AM

    So not really a job for your average home hobbiest then?

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    Daniel

    Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 11:42 AM

    So 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

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    Stephen Earp

    Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 12:14 PM

    This 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..)

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    Quozl

    Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 5:15 PM

    New from Ronco it’s the FibreSplice 3000 all for the low low price of $9.95

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    kakyoin01

    Monday, August 2, 2010 at 9:25 AM

    the machine is so much advance than the 1 i use in the uni lab

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      Kevin Russell

      Monday, August 2, 2010 at 12:57 PM

      Can you splice fibre in the uni lab? If so how does that work?

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    soho

    Monday, August 2, 2010 at 1:26 PM

    We use the same fujikura splicers at work, looks like he did a pretty bad (ie. high loss) splice there

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