A fiber optic protector is used as a protective cover when making a fusion in the FO cable.
How is a fiber optic fusion performed?
- First, remove the coating on one end of the cable.
- Insert the heat shrink protector through the cable.
- Next, we remove the secondary protection coating at each end of the fibers.
- We also remove the acetate coating. Always being careful not to cut the fiber.
- We clean with isopropyl alcohol the fiber of the cable and cut with the cutter and do the same with the other cable that we want to splice.
- We place the clamps with the fibers in the guides to the left and right of the splicer, always trying not to mount the ends.
- We turn on the fusion machine and select the right program. If we want a fusion of low losses we will select fusion by nuclei and it will be the machine itself that aligns them.
- Finally, once the fibers are joined, we introduce the heat shrink tube into the oven of the machine itself.