(Adrian Young) Welcome back. Our tester is set up
for a cat 5e test. Now it's time to run that test.
But before we do that, we'll want to set a reference.
To do that, very easy. Permanent link adaptor on the main unit,
connected into the channel adaptor on the remote unit.
And Amanda, please tap "Tools."
And "Set Reference" and "Test."
This is something you're going to want to do each day.
The manual does say at least 30 days. But part of this process is also a self-test.
So it's a good idea to do this each day. And as you can see, it's very quick.
Okay, go ahead and tap "Done."
Now we're going to connect the tester into our magical box here
and run a test. So, we're going to get you to
take that off there. And I'll grab that for you.
And you connect that one in there.
And this is just my fun demo box. It has a number of faults in there.
Hopefully this link is going to pass.
Now you may have heard the instruments chirp.
Whenever they connect to each other,
you'll hear that chirp. and that's really useful for the individual
at the other end, because they'll know that they're actually connected
into the correct outlet. So, also noting in the top left-hand corner here,
next to the battery gauge, you're also going to see two little testers
with the green arrows pointing at each other. So when they're connected,
that indicates that they are connected and they're talking to each other.
Okay Amanda, go ahead and press the "Home" key for me.
And tap "Test."
And for a cat 5e test, it's around about 8 to 9 seconds.
For cat 6, cat 6a is around about 10 seconds. It's a pretty quick test to do on this tester.
Certainly much faster than the DTX on cat 6a. So this tester passed.
We see the pass on the top right-hand corner.
The first thing that we see on there is wiremap.
Amanda, go ahead and tap "Performance" for me.
Now we see what's very familiar to DTX owners,
is all the various parameters required for cat 5e.
Everything passes here, so we're good.
Go ahead and hit "Save."
And because we preconfigured all the cable IDs,
we don't have to tap in cable IDs. We can just go "Save."
And we can move onto our next test. Let's change the test out here.
I'm going to swap this across to another link.
And again, I hear the chirp, so I know that they're actually connected.
Okay Amanda, go ahead and tap "Test" again for me.
So again, it's running the insertion loss and the alien crosstalk, the return loss,
all the measurements that are required by both the standards
and your cabling vendor for their warranty application.
Uh-oh, it failed. Now what you're going to do at this stage is,
go ahead and tap "Diagnostics" for me, Amanda.
What you've got now is the next generation
of automated diagnostics fault info.
This tester is smart enough that it can actually locate
RJ45 connections in the link. So if you had a consolidation point,
you'd actually see 3 connectors on the screen here.
What the test is telling us is, the connection at the far end
is bad and it needs fixing. Further information is available
by tapping the box. If you'd like to go ahead and tap the box.
And we give you a little bit more information.
But the bottom line is, we need to go to the far end
and sort out that termination. Okay, tap to go back.
Let's save that result. Now we have two options.
We have "Fix Later" or "Test Again." So if you're in the mood
for fixing that issue now, you go ahead and fix it and do "Test Again"
and hopefully get a pass and save the result.
Maybe you're just testing and testing and testing,
in which case, you're going to fix it later. So go ahead and tap "Fix Later."
That brings up our cable ID selection here.
You'll notice that 01A is missing, because we've already tested that.
It's jumped to 01B. Just go ahead and hit "Save."
And you are good to go. One more thing that's kind of cute
about this tester. Go ahead and press the "Home" key for me, Amanda.
At any one stage, you can go to the home screen and see
how you're progressing with the job. So on here, you can actually see
that we have a one tick, green tick, and a one X.
That tells us we have one passing and one failing.
You're also going to see a percentage on here
that's going to track how well you're doing with your job.
So because we've preconfigured all the cable IDs, if you only get
halfway through your cable IDs, then you're only going to see 50% here.
It really reduces the possibility of missing links that you're supposed to test.
Okay, so that's testing with the DSX-5000.
On the next video, I'm going to share how to download those results to your PC
and print them out and how to present them to your customer.