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Suspect your fiber network is compromised? Do some fiber espionage with the F3X Fiber Fault Finder Gun. Use this infrared light detection probe to gather the intelligence you need to ID leaks, breaks, bends, and faults in your fiber network.
You’ll save hours of time in troubleshooting and hours in network downtime, saving your organization tens of thousands of dollars in lost productivity. With this new patent-pending technology, you’ll be able to pinpoint faults in your network to within inches.
Point and shoot.
To find leaks, just point your F3X Gun at your fiber cable run and squeeze the trigger. Then sweep it over the fiber. Get ready to be amazed. You’ll actually see light emanating from any faults, breaks, and bends in the cable. It works in bright daylight, too, eliminating the need to turn off the lights or wait until nightfall to work on outdoor cable.
In the closet, you’ll be able to uncover hard-to-find light loss points in connectors mated in bulkhead adapters, patch panels, caps, boots, fanouts, even some dust covers.
With the F3X Fiber Fault Finder gun, you’ll find problems that you previously were unable to diagnose with traditional methods. It offers far more functionality than a visible laser light source. Plus you can use it in OTDR dead zones and in splice enclosures where it’s critical to pinpoint the exact location of faults. Once the gun detects a light loss point, it gives you an audio/visual fault indication.
The F3X is great for troubleshooting all fiber networks. But it’s particularly beneficial for mission-critical and secure fiber networks, such as in government, military, education, healthcare, finance, etc.
Three MOs.
Use the F3X in three modes of operation:
1. Raw infrared light detection.
Detect infrared light including traffic, tracer signals, and CW light. This enables you to locate severe bends and breaks in lightly colored fibers.
2. 2-kHz remote tracer souce light detection.
Examine ports, fibers, splices, or connectors for the presence of a 2-kHz modulated signal. Any light between 1000–1700 nm will be detected. This method also enables you to ID light at uncovered ports up to 300 kilometers away or to locate severe bends and breaks in most 250- or 900-µm buffered fibers.
3. Local tracer source detection.
In this mode, the F3X Gun senses light from its own internal source at the rear of the unit. This is the most sensitive mode of operation. Use it to detect breaks in nearly all 250- and 900-µm fibers, usually at the ends of a cable at the ports, splices, and connectors.
Customize your F3X Gun.
The F3X system consists of the Fiber Fault Finder Gun and multiple light sources and filters that are sold separately. This way you can build the gun you want based on your fiber network. Choose from the following:
Light sources
Use the medium-powered Light Source 1 for local operations. Choose the high-powered Light Source 2 for long-distance applications up to 300 kilometers (186.4 mi.).
Both light sources feature 1550-nm operation and a standard 2-kHz modulation used by the gun and most fiber identifiers. (The sources do not operate in continuous wave [CW] mode.) They’re powered by either four AA alkaline batteries or an AC wall pack with four AA NiMH cells. Both the wall pack and four NiMH cells are included.
For durability, the sources have aluminum cases with high-impact rubber bumpers.
Filters
The filters come in specifc wavelengths, so you can choose the one that’s right for your cabling. The Standard Filter works with all fiber wavelengths from 1280 nm–1680 nm. Or you can choose filters specifically for 1310 nm, 1490 nm, or 1550 nm wavelengths.
For aerial operations, choose the Aerial Filter and Scope.
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