CLEANING: Blog Articles

Ten Practical Tips for Cleaning Connector Ends

FOC has posted several articles on cleaning and inspection in recent years.Two recent ones were Ensuring Clean Fiber Connections, and The Art of Cleaning. The first article cites IEC standard 61300-3-35, which covers visual inspection techniques and ...
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The Art of Cleaning: Follow These Specific Cleaning Techniques During Fiber Optic Cable Assembly Manufacturing and Installation

The cleaning activities for fiber optic connectors can be divided into two different “fields": During the manufacturing stages in the fiber optic cable assembly process, During installation for fiber optic applications such as data communications, laser ...
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Ensuring Clean Fiber Connections

When it comes to fiber installations, cleanliness is the key to success.  Whether the work is in buildings, on construction sites or outdoors in trenches for fiber ducts, there is at a minimum, dust. Dirty connectors cause the highest percentage of fiber optic...
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