Splicer w/tube heater, user's manual, power cord, spare pair of electrodes, and cleaver with no top cover.

The FSM-30SF is designed to splice optical glass fiber for telecommunications, and can be used for high tensile splicing by a non-touch method. When using a non-touch method, the coated part of the fiber is set on the V-groove rather than the un-coated part. In conventional splicing, the un-coated part of the fiber is set on the V-groove, which may cause micro scratches on the fibers surface, reducing the tensile strength of the splice. The non-touch method eliminates micro scratches and results in a high strength splice. When using the non-touch method, V-groove and fiber clamp sizes are selected according to the fiber coat diameter.

This system has the following features:

Normal single-mode fiber (SM), multi-mode fiber (MM), dispersion shifed fiber (DS), cutoff shifted fiber (CS), and Erbium doped fiber (ED) are applicable for splicing. Carbon coated fiber and Titan fiber are also applicable.

The splicer performs the fiber gap set, core/cladding alignment, splicing and loss estimation automatically by image processing by an internal microprocessor. A core alignment method is used for the SM mode, DS mode, and CS mode. A cladding alignment method is used for the MM mode. On the ED mode, it is possible to select the core alignment method or the cladding alignment method on the arc condition menu.

There are three kinds of ambient environmental sensors that are built into the splicer: a pressure sensor, a thermometer, and a hygrometer. Those sensors adjust the arc power in order to compensate for various of altitude/atmospheric pressure, temperature, and humidity.