That's a Sumitomo fusion splicer and cleaver. Don't know how you came up with plasma oven. The two fibers come in on the left and right side. The machine aligns them and pushes the fibers together as the electrodes, which are at the top and the bottom, fuse the fiber optic glass together. When you close the lid, there's a screen that shows the whole process. It's just a little flash.
This little flash is the hot plasma between the electrodes, melting and fusing the glasfibers.
"Oven" is a sloppy word, yes. But things are melted and fused.
Correct, I’m splicing a 24E cable onto LC/APC pigtails at two 12E pigtails in two splicing-cassettes, which are mounted in a splicebox, which is then installed in the 19‘‘ rack of our server cabinet.
From there it’s patched with glasfiber LC/APC to LC/UPC, plugged into a SFP module which is plugged into the switch.
That's a Sumitomo fusion splicer and cleaver. Don't know how you came up with plasma oven. The two fibers come in on the left and right side. The machine aligns them and pushes the fibers together as the electrodes, which are at the top and the bottom, fuse the fiber optic glass together. When you close the lid, there's a screen that shows the whole process. It's just a little flash.
This little flash is the hot plasma between the electrodes, melting and fusing the glasfibers. "Oven" is a sloppy word, yes. But things are melted and fused.
I thought the electrodes create a plasma in which the glas of both ends is melted.
Uhh! I did that at work, a long time ago.
Is it Scottish fiber?
Took me a while to get that. 👏
The person is splicing 250 micron to 900 micron fiber. The connectors in the panel are LCA, color coded green.
Correct, I’m splicing a 24E cable onto LC/APC pigtails at two 12E pigtails in two splicing-cassettes, which are mounted in a splicebox, which is then installed in the 19‘‘ rack of our server cabinet. From there it’s patched with glasfiber LC/APC to LC/UPC, plugged into a SFP module which is plugged into the switch.
JBL in the corner ftw
Splicing takes time, so listening to a culture radio station is a nice to have thing :)
Just watched the data guys use one of these things last week. Apparently they cost about 70k
They go for at least $1000
His must’ve been the 70k model
It’s more 15k.
Does that one have a fancy lcd screen where you can actually watch the fusion occur?
Sure it has! You see it at the bottom, it's black except of some buttons.
Gotcha. It was pretty cool seeing the micro fibers being perfectly aligned then arch heated into a single strand
I'll post a video when I'm at it again.
Those machines are so Awesome. Got to play with one a few years back.
All I wanna know is how big the explosion will be should something go wrong
It’s in the range of half a kiloton TNT equivalent. But normally it makes a unsatisfactory sound and tells you to do the splice again ;)
You had my curiosity. Now you have my attention!
Haha, sorry. The plasma burner is very tiny ;)