One of the things that was added in version 3
on the Versiv platform
is the ability for automated fiber inspection
if you have the optional inspection camera.
You probably already know by now
that you can tap on 'Tools'
and 'Fiber Inspector',
and see how bad your endfaces are.
Prior to version 3 you'll see
this 'Grade Here' option.
If I tap grade you have the ability to
manually say whether it's good or bad.
But in the version 3 code we added in automation.
But it needs a test limit.
So we need to set the test limit.
So from the home screen
I'm going to tap where my test limit is.
And actually I've got one here
as a default in the instrument,
but if I tap new test
we see test type. If I tap 'Test Type',
'Fiber Inspector',
and it will give me the test limit
for Multimode. Well, this is Singlemode,
so I need to change it. So, to change it
I tap 'Test Limit',
'More',
and 'Endface Limits'.
And you'll see that I got four in here.
The first one is for Multimode
whether it's field polished or factory polished.
The second one here is for Singlemode
and that's if it's factory polished.
The third one here is for Singlemode again
but that's if you're doing a field polish.
And then finally we have the APC
the Angled Physical Contact connector.
So let's go ahead
and select the factory polished one here.
I'll save it.
Here's my new test at the top here
so I'm going to highlight it,
'Use Selected',
and if I hit 'Test' now,
the difference this time is you'll see
the analyze option,
and if I got that focused in,
now if I tap analyze,
I only stopped because too many defects were found.
Please clean the fiber and try again.
This, as you can see, is just so bad
we need to do some basic cleaning.
Let me go ahead and do that now.
Dab in there.
Okay, let's see what it looks like now.
There's a play button
so I'm going to hit the play button.
That's not too bad it's getting a little bit better
but let's see what is here the tester says.
I'll tap analyze.
And you'll notice here that
it's actually decided it's a fail.
and this standard is kind of interesting
it creates four zones of acceptance,
although only three of them are actually used,
and on the tester, here, where you see the red,
that's where there's debris or dirt
or a scratch that is outside of that defined standard.
Interesting enough, we don't actually count
what's going on the outside here.
So let me see if I can do a little bit
of better job cleaning up this connector.
It's getting a bit better.
We're not quite there yet.
Zoom it back in, analyze.
And again it's still failing.
What is the conclusion here on this one?
This cord is
I don't think it's going to be any good.
When the cord is good
this is what you should see.
'Play'.
Focus it in.
'Analyze'.
And that's what a good cord looks like.
Now, you will notice that there are some
very small green dots in there
where the instrument's picked up something
but that's well within what the standard permits.
And, as always, you have the option
of saving the endface,
and save whatever Cable ID you want to.
and if you save that
as the same as your optical loss test
on the CertiFiber Pro,
or your OTDR test on the OptiFiber Pro
it'll merge that result automatically,
So then when you look at the LinkWare
you'll see the endface,
as well as your tier 1 or tier 2 test.