Won't work and I can't imagine how any company that is the slightest bit reputable would do that. It is standard practice to use a test set to measure loss to determine if the terminated strand(s) are usable. How could they have even packed up their stuff thinking they did something usefuul?
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Thomas Mullins <[email protected]>wrote: > I hope this is not off topic too much. But, here goes:**** > > ** ** > > We had a piece of multimode fiber that was damaged at a local high school. > This piece of fiber ran no more than 300 yards from the main building to a > field house. **** > > ** ** > > The original piece of fiber was multimode. The local school had an outside > company splice the damaged section. This company made the splice with > single mode fiber. Multimode fiber has a diameter of about 62.5 microns, > single mode fiber has a diameter of 8 to 10 microns. I have no idea if this > is legal.**** > > ** ** > > This piece of fiber will not light up for me. The school purchased FX > transceivers. To my knowledge, FX transceivers will work with both single > and multi mode fiber.**** > > ** ** > > Thanks **** > > Shane**** > > ** ** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
