Does anyone know how you go about cutting a multi core fibre optic cable?
I've terminated single cores in the past, where you "cleave" the fibre and then polish it into the connector, but thats only when i've made patch leads.
How do you go about cutting say 10m from a 100m roll of multicore cable? Do you have to slice into the cable and then cleave the cores individually or is a rough cut acceptable, knowing that you will be cleaving each core before terminating it into the connector?
This is all just out of interest as I'm attending a course in a couple of weeks and doing a bit of reading has left me pondering this.
I've terminated single cores in the past, where you "cleave" the fibre and then polish it into the connector, but thats only when i've made patch leads.
How do you go about cutting say 10m from a 100m roll of multicore cable? Do you have to slice into the cable and then cleave the cores individually or is a rough cut acceptable, knowing that you will be cleaving each core before terminating it into the connector?
This is all just out of interest as I'm attending a course in a couple of weeks and doing a bit of reading has left me pondering this.