Installation Manual

Greenlee Textron / Subsidiary of Textron Inc.

4455 Boeing Dr., Rockford, IL 61109-2988 815/397-7070

Fiber Optic Installation Kit

Procedure (cont’d)

13. Clean the endface with a wipe saturated in alcohol.

14. Repeat the polishing step using 1 µm polishing

paper, performing no more than 20 “traveling

figure-8s.”

15. Clean the endface with a wipe saturated in alcohol.

For optimal connector performance, repeat the polishing

step using 0.3

m paper for 5 “traveling figure-8s,” then

clean the endface with alcohol.

Note: If the connector is the SC style, snap the housing

onto the connector.

16. Inspect the core and cladding with the Greenlee

Fiber Microscope. Check the dB loss with a

Datacom Textron light source and an optical power

meter.

Ideal

No blemishes on core or cladding.

Good

Cladding is chipped, but core is not.

Poor

Scratch across core.

Try repolishing or else reterminate.

Unacceptable

Fiber has shattered.

Reterminate.

Do not use the microscope to examine a fiber optic

cable that is connected to a laser light source.

Failure to observe this warning can cause serious

eye injury and permanent blindness.