Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Sumitomo fusion splicers


This is a clip I shot on my 'phone yesterday showing the automated alignment of fibres in the new style fusion splicer. We've had this machine on hire for a week to try and break the back of a couple of fibre jobs that have run on a bit longer than they should.
It really is very impressive - the software does a very accurate alignment every time and as a consequence you can do a lot more circuits in a given time. The only donwside is the £30k price tag!

2 comments:

Rupert said...

What was £6.5K; I think we should be told!

Phil Crawley said...

Oh - a Fluke DTX 1800 with optional optical OTDR module.