At many of the world’s largest optical component manufacturing sites and on many cable house assembly floors the need for short fiber lead length splicing is very important. When optical fiber cables are prepared with most assemblies there is excess fiber length included to establish room for re-works, broken fibers or so that multiple attempts at splicing can be performed. The problem is when too many breaks or attempts on a single fiber cause the length to become too short for adequate splicing.
Often when this happens, the optical component has to be thrown out or sent back to the manufacturer for costly and expensive repair. Fitel addresses this common problem by minimizing the space under the splicing hardware canopy. The means that the user has the maximum number of attempts at successfully re-splicing a short or broken fiber lengths. The new Fitel S185 fusion splicer provides the shortest lead length requirement of any specialty fiber splicer on the market today.