(Adrian Young) Welcome back.
Now we're going to set up the OptiFiber Pro for a successful OTDR test.
And the first thing we're going to do is create a project.
(Amanda) So what is a project?
(Adrian Young) Good question, Amanda.
A project, think of it as a folder where you can store
all your test setup information, including cable IDs.
Now with our previous generation of OTDRs, you could only ever have one setup.
And that worked if the tester stayed with that installation.
But when that tester leaves that installation and goes to another installation,
you have to reconfigure it for that installation and that means changing the setup.
Whenever you change the setup, that's a potential error.
So what's great about the Versiv platform and this OptiFiber Pro,
is I can create up to a hundred projects in advance within the tester.
So when this tester leaves here today in Everett, and I go to, say, Edmonds,
which I'm going to prepare to go to in a moment, I can simply just change the project
across to Edmonds, and I get my test configuration and my cable IDs for Edmonds.
So, let's create a project. It's a "taptive" interface, which means
if I see something, I'll just tap it and it should be able to change it.
So we see "Project" on the screen now, so go ahead and tap "Project."
And "Change Project."
And "New Project."
And we're going to type in "Edmonds." My favorite city.
Awesome. Then, you get your basic setup.
Because we have the OptiFiber Pro module in the back, it's automatically gone to
a default OTDR configuration. Let's take a look at that.
So the first thing on there is the type of OTDR test.
And there are a number of options here. So go ahead and tap on "Test Type" for me.
We're not going to do all of these today. This is just a getting started video.
The first option on here is auto OTDR, which is one of the most-common settings.
The reason why is, if you leave it in auto OTDR mode,
it will decide what the pulse width, the averaging, and all the arranging,
and all the other stuff that you typically manually have to set up.
Now, if you're an OTDR person, you may not like auto ODTR.
And you want to set this up yourself. You want to set your ranges
and your pulse widths and your average each time yourself. That's totally fine.
The second option on my list here is manual OTDR.
So you can still do that, go in there, and set up all your pulse widths in there.
You'll also see "Data Center ODTR." If you're doing certification of cabling systems,
please don't use this one. This one is specifically for troubleshooting
in data centers where we want to try and get the very best deadzone possible.
As a result, if you use "Data Center" mode, you only get one wavelength.
You need both wavelengths if you're doing certification.
So go ahead and tap "Auto OTDR."
And the next thing down on my list here is the launch compensation.
Now, whenever you do an OTDR measurement, you are going to be using a launch fiber.
And it doesn't look like it, but these launch packs contain about 105 meters of fiber.
We have to connect that into the link, otherwise we're not going to see
that first connection, because we don't want this to be part of our measurement.
So what we'll do here in a moment, is we'll actually remove that launch fiber
from our measurement. Now you'll see that I've got two fibers
on the table here. This other one I'm going to call my tail fiber,
it's the same as this one, but I'm going to call it my tail fiber
because a lot of folks today are still just using a launch fiber only.
You should be making OTDR measurement with a tail fiber as well.
And when we come onto do launch compensation, I'll talk a little bit more about that.
I'm going to leave it off. And the reason why I'm going to leave it off is
when you do the launch compensation, it will turn this on automatically for you.
So the next item on the list is fiber type. So go ahead and tap "Fiber Type" for me.
So here, this is a brand new tester. So these are the three options
we've given you in there. And you've got to be thinking,
there must be more fiber types than three inside the tester.
And of course, you're absolutely right. Go ahead and tap "More" on there for me.
So just like the CertiFiber Pro, you get all the options
such as "Generic," and the "Manufacturer," and "Custom."
Now be careful here, because what you really want to do
is go to the manufacturer's website and look at the data sheet for their fiber
and make sure that's the information that matches up with what's in the tester here.
You could create a custom cable type, or you could just pick generic.
And today, we're going to pick generic. So tap "Generic."
And just like our CertiFiber Pro before, we're going to pick OM3 fiber.
So go ahead and tap, "OM3 Fiber."
And we are now set up for our fiber type. And finally, on the list here,
probably the most important thing, is our test limit.
So go ahead and tap "Test Limit" for me.
Okay and so just as before, we've given you some of the most common setups there.
But of course there's got to be more. So go ahead and tap "More."
And here we see the TIA, the ISO folders, the application folders.
Very a lot of test limits inside this tester. So check your tester specification.
With OTDRs, a lot of people like to use their own test limits.
And you can do that with the OptiFiber Pro. Go ahead and tap on "Custom" for me.
And, yup, we're going to go and "Create One." Excellent.
So we can put the name of our custom test limit in the top here.
And we have the four wavelengths support to this module here,
both Multimode and Singlemode. So we can go into those menus,
and adding in a connection loss, our splice loss, our fiber loss.
And test to a tighter specification. And that's very common with OTDRs,
which again, is another reminder, please check your test specification.
You don't want to be retesting because you selected the wrong test limit.
We're going to use a basic test today, so if you'd like to come back to that menu for me.
There we go. And we'll go down to TIA.
And we'll select 568. Now, because we selected the fiber type
as Multimode, our test limits here that we're going to be presented with
will be Multimode only. So go ahead and tap that for me.
Excellent. And fundamentally, we've just set up
the test in there. So the next bit that we're going to do
is do the launch compensation. But here's one little catch:
don't forget to tap the "Save" button down here on the right-hand side.
Go ahead and tap "Save." Otherwise, we don't save our configuration.
That's just a reminder also, is one of the other benefits
of setting up the projects, is you can actually redefine the cable IDs.
And you've seen us do that on the other videos. And we're going to do that again here.
So on the cable IDs, you'll see "New ID." So go ahead and tap that.
And we'll pick a typical, simple fiber ID. So we'll start with 01A.
So if you'd like to tap in 01A.
And then go down to the next one, and we'll end in 12B.
Excellent. Now you'll also see that we get to choose
what sort of test we want those assigned to. And we're doing an OTDR test today
and when you look at the OTDR, you'll see it says "N1" and "N2."
We're going to do a fully standards-compliant measurement.
We are going to be measuring in both directions.
So go ahead and tap "N1" and "N2" on the boxes there.
And then once we've done that, we'll go ahead and tap "Save."
That's our OTDR setup with our cable IDs and our test limits.
In the next video, I'm going to show you how to set a launch compensation
and do a successful OTDR measurement.