(Adrian Young) Hello, my name is Adrian Young
and I work at Fluke Networks. And I'm going to talk to you
about the FI-7000 today.
If you think this looks familiar, doesn't it look like the CertiFiber Pro
or the OptiFiber Pro, or even the DSX? It is.
It's part of the Versiv family. What makes it an FI-7000
is simply the fact it doesn't have a module in the back,
and it comes with a USB camera. Now, what the FI-7000 allows us to do
is inspect the endface of connectors, and, more importantly,
apply a test limit. We can actually grade these connectors automatically
to the international standard IEC 61300-3-35.
If you're in an area which operates to ANSI/TIA standards, just be aware
that in the D standard that's coming at the time of the shooting of this video
it's going to reference this same IEC standard, 61300-3-35.
The TI have just decided there's no point in writing another standard
when a standard exists already. So, then, fundamentally,
they're going to kind of adopt that IEC automate inspection standard.
So let's turn to the machine and talk about how we actually set this up.
So, just like we did in all our other videos in this series,
the CertiFiber Pro and the OptiFiber Pro, we're talking about configuring
a test limit. Here's my test limit. I can tap on it. I can go "Edit."
"Test Limit," and "More," and "Endface Limits."
And I get four to choose from. These are from that IEC standard.
The first one here ends in "MM." That's for Multimode Connectors.
Whether it's field polish or factory polish, you get to use one limit.
The next one down on the list here, "45 dB," is for Singlemode, factory-polish connectors.
The third one, where it says "26 dB", is again Singlemode,
but that's where you're field polishing. And then, finally, we have "APC."
Angled Physical Contact, that's APC connectors,
In this little example on the table here today, I'm going to be using Multimode.
So I'm going to tap Multimode, save it, that's my test setup, and "Use Selected."
So, on the table here I've got some connectors, and let's see how we get on,
So, I'm going to plug my fiber inspection in.
And I'm going to hit the "Test" key.
It's going to bring up the image, I'll just briefly bring it into focus.
And now we have to make a decision, is this acceptable or not?
I mean, there is some stuff going on on the screen there, but is this okay?
I think this is pretty clean, and talking about cleaning,
on the table here, you're going to see a whole bunch of cleaning equipment.
Customers often ask me, "what's the best cleaning options for doing fiber connectors?"
My answer typically is, the one that works best for you.
Very popular at the moment are these Click pens, and they're very easy to use,
and they're great for getting dirt off. But if there's embedded dirt
on the endface of the connector, you'll probably want to go to a sulfur-based pen.
These sulfur-based pens will really remove the nasties that can be on the endface
of connectors, so before you throw away those cords, try using a sulfur pen.
This is actually my favorite, I use this as a backup.
So I'll go to the Click pen first, and then I'll go to the sulfur pen.
So I'm connected in, I've got this, and now I've got an option
that says "Analyze," because I configured a test limit.
If I tap "Analyze,"
in 1.2 seconds, roughly, okay that's the engineer in me, it's about a second,
it's going to analyze that endface to that IEC standard.
That's probably faster than you can analyze the endface
by just visually looking at it. More importantly,
if you were to get 5 experts in the room, and ask them whether
they thought that was good or not, you'd probably get different answers.
The nice thing about this standard is it says, "okay, this is what
we're all going to agree on, and if it's passed, it's a pass."
And just like any other test that we do on the Versiv platform,
indeed, we an actually save this test result, so I can tap "Save,"
and save this image. Now, in the series of these videos,
we did the CertiFiber Pro for our Tier 1 testing,
and the OptiFiber Pro for our Tier 2 testing,
and in the OptiFiber Pro you saw how I was able to merge
our Tier 1 and our Tier 2 testing together in LinkWare
We can do the same with our fiber inspection.
So before we walk away from the job, we could inspect our installed connectors,
Save them with the same cable IDs as our Tier 1 and our Tier 2 testing
and that becomes one concise report in LinkWare. So consider doing that.
So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to have a look at the endface of this image.
and this is going to be my connector that I installed, and it should be nice and clean.
"Play," everything looks good there. Tap "Analyze." And it comes up with pass.
So this could be my test reference cord, this could buy my installed connector,
so what happens if the test reference cord is dirty?
I'm going to make it dirty by just tapping my thumb on the end there.
Let's go and inspect this connector again.
Hit "Play." And it is something absolutely horrible.
In fact, if we go and tap "Analyze" now, it's probably going to complain that
"it's just so bad, you've got to be kidding me,
at least try to clean up this connector."
So I think we can agree, that's a pretty miserable connector.
But this could be your test reference cord.
What happens when I connect this test reference cord
into my nice, new, clean connector. That's a physical contact.
So now the dirt is going to be transferrred from this connector
to my nice, new, clean connector.
So if I pull this out, and I reinspect what was a very nice clean connector,
it's not clean anymore. That dirt has transferred across. I tap "Analyze."
Sure enough, it's failed miserably.
And this is one of the dangers that we're constantly seeing in fiber is,
people have the cleaning equipment, but they don't have the inspection equipment.
So they assume that, because they cleaned, it's clean.
You don't know that it's clean until you've inspected it.
And you can see the real danger here, that you could go through an entire
installation and damage every connector in that installation.
It's really critical to have inspection equipment.
So this is SC here. There are tips in the box here to do SD and LC.
There are additional tips to do APC connections as well.
There's even a tip to do MPO MTP connections as well,
where you can scan across all 12 fibers on the endface there.
This, if you're doing MPO testing, you need one of these.
And you need one of these, because, when you clean an MPO,
you're going to be relying on this, and you've go to get all 12 fibers
clean at the same time. You're definitely going to need that inspection device.
That's the FI-7000. Now, again, I just want to emphasize this,
if you have a CertiFiber Pro or an OptiFiber Pro,
you already have this built into your tester,
because it's part of the mainframe, you just need the optional camera.