Fiber splicing//What happens if copper wire are put into a fusion splicer

What happens if copper wire are put into a fusion splicer

[magnuswright]

The nice thing about glass is that it's immune to surface corrosion, whereas copper forms a thin oxide layer that makes welding a little bit more complicated

[dziany_forsacze]

I've been working in FTTX for couple of years. It always seems amazing technology, yet never seen it from this perspective. Although I have made countless of fiber crossings, POTS etc. I have used to it so much but never cared to take a closer look at my tool. Sumito, very good Japanese tech.

[justinpatterson]

If I'm not mistaken. You can actually see the direction of current with the copper. It got pushed upwards. Or was that just the direction the heated metal flexed?

[BrianSu]

I’ve seen this done by technicians who came to the office to connect fibre Ethernet broadband. The machine’s cool but the real skill is how the guys strip the utility cable layer by layer, each leaving the correct amount of exposed bit left all the way down to the fibre there were between 5-10 layers each made with different materials.

[christopherleubner]

Fixed an old fujikawa fusion splicer with a bad arc supply with one of those 10 buck atomic arc cigarette lighters. Charges up with a USB and can do hundreds of splices on a charge. Oh the old lead batteries and the original board were done away with making it much easier to carry. 😁🤓❤

[BaffledBelief]

I do this all day most days and it's still cool as hell to see it not through the little lcd screen

[Cinncinnatus]

used to do that way back in the day, one thing this doesnt show is that machine has optics that will switch from one plane to the other to align it before welding it.

[Supersmellerdude]

I always wondered what would happen if you put copper wire in a fusion splicer

[Todd.T]

My manager thanks you for saving one of our fusion splicers. Someone was going to try it...

[andrewclark]

Was the last one a fiber optic wire? That's pretty cool

[deepanshusingh]

Thank and Man .... For showing this... 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[Amberstargazerofearth]

Never saw it by my own eyes! Clever machine

[torengen]

When in university we met one of the old guys that found an method to produce fiber. He gave me one spliced fiber. I said I can feel the connection. He said that the sence in the finger is on atomic scale.
I still can see the amplitude modulated light in production. Nor LASER amplifier for doped fiber.

[Ma_X]

It's interesting is it possible to make a chip DIY fiber welding machine with minimum automatisation. It looks quite simple: source of high voltage high frequency AC current, couple of fixtures with micrometric screws, cheap microscope...

[DarkISO]

Thats fucking sick. Literally no trace that it was ever two pieces.

[antnhebayu]

These can be a perfect 3d filament welder

[darkshadowsx]

my uncle had a fusion splicer in his garage. he went missing about 6 months ago claiming he built a time machine.
he said he needed it to build a flux capacitor otherwise the flux would not capacitate. we thought he was a loony.

[kartikkalia]

I saw this last month in our optical fiber lab.

[thehitman]

fiber optic is an excellent technology.

[djohnsto]

Maybe try fusing fiber to copper - If it works it could revolutionize the media converter industry.