Fiber Cleaver FTTH Fiber Optic Tools High Precision 6C Cable Cutting Fiber Optic Knife Tools Fiber Cleavers 12 Surface Blade

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It is the ideal tool for use in fusion splicing, field termination, or any application that requires precision in a confined space. In the cleaving process, the brittle glass fiber is fractured in a controlled manner as shown below. Thus the quality of the fiber cleavers directly determines the quality of fiber optic splices or terminations. Fiber cleavers, designed for fusion splicing, need a low average angle that is one degree or less, whereas cleavers appropriate for mechanical connectors require angles below three degrees.

In the past, the difficult process of blade rotation adjustments has necessitated increased service and maintenance of the fiber cleavers due to the frequent improper cleaver blade rotation and height adjustments. Also, one should take precautions to make them well visible in the working area, for example by using a black pad below the working area. For example, one could not properly but together the fiber surfaces if a fiber had a small protrusion (a part standing out), even if that is only near the edge, far away from the fiber core. Although they are more costly than scribe cleavers, precision cleavers can cut multiple fibers with increasing speed, efficiency, and accuracy. As with fusion splicers, there are a host of illegitimate knock-offs that replicate the body, look, and branding of the leading manufacturers’ cleavers.Cleavers that are designed for fusion splicing require a low average angle that is one degree or less, while cleavers appropriate for mechanical connectors require angles below three degrees. It may cause inconvenience to technician if they loses valuable tools, which can hold up the job at hand. On the other hand, a laser lever is of course substantially more expensive than a mechanical cleaver. The optimum settings of a mechanical fiber cleaver – in particular, the applied tension – substantially depend on details like the glass materials and the fiber diameter.

Standard cleavers cleave the fiber using the same blade position until that position becomes dull, resulting in poor cleaves. We have a team of friendly and knowledgeable sales representative and product specialists ready to assist you.The advantage of the precision cleavers is that they can produce repeatable results through thousands of cleaves by simply just rotating the wheel/blade accordingly. However, some cleavers are less automated and require operators to exert force manually to cut the fiber cable, which makes it difficult to predict and control the force.

Some deviation from a normal (perpendicular) cleave may be irrelevant if the orientation of the fiber (or possibly that of a focusing or collimation lens) can be controlled for correcting the tilt angle. In addition they also manufacture a full line of optical cabling, cable assemblies and fiber management systems. The FK11 features a patented anvil-less ultrasonic cleaving action that minimizes fiber end contamination, hackle, and misting – a cleaving technique that produces superb planar fiber ends of mirror quality.Before cleaving, a fiber coating needs to be stripped off with a coating stripper tool, or dissolved with a suitable solvent. For many sensitive fiber optic systems, back reflections can induce excessive noise and laser instability. When this occurs, the technician must rotate and adjust the blade height, which can be a very time-consuming process. Using your smartphone, your splicer connects to the internet and Sumitomo's cloud services which include data management, asset management, firmware updates and maintenance support.

Determine whether you require a single- or multi-fiber cleaver that can precisely cleave one to 12 fibers at a time.If fibers should be fusion-spliced, the cleaved surfaces should be quite precisely perpendicular to the axis and must be smooth over the whole fiber cross-section. The downside to these built-in cleavers is that if either the cleaver or splicer requires maintenance, the technician loses two valuable tools, which can hold up the job at hand. As the name implies, precision cleavers can do a preciser cleaving job compared to the scribe cleavers. The latter technique – chemical stripping – may be required in problematic cases, but takes more time.