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
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?
@@breezetix there seems to be a bit of a gap in most of the initial fusion attempts, could very well have been the pushing together though right at that moment.
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.
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.
It's easy when you do it everyday. Done it with good tools done it with bad tools done it up a telegraph pole with almost fuck all tools it always gets done well when you've experience. It's not a hard job.
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. 😁🤓❤
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.
That machine is actually made to fuse optic fiber together. There are several places where if you have to replace a section of fiber you'll have to cut it and then fuse them like this
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.
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...
Depends on what sort of quality you are after. For best results you need to get the temp just right. At the moment of fusing you need to push the fiber ends together just he right amount I don't think you'll ever get such timing and distance right in a completely manual jig. For communications maybe good enough is good enough, but if it's some measurement instrument or a powerful laser or something then quality of every joint starts making a lot of difference.
As a home DIY experiment, for the odd fiber, where quality isn't much of a factor, maybe. Early fiber splicing rigs weren't much more than this, but they were slow. What these modern core alignment fusion splicers do are hundreds of splices per day, to recognisable standards. Oh, and what your really aligning are the cores of the fibers, which are 9 microns in diameter. That's 0.009mm, 0.354/1000 of an inch. This 9 micron core is where the light actually travels (In long distance, single mode fibers).
Hello All, I'm looking for a supplier to weld copper with plasma technology, can some of you provide me the supplier name for the above movie? thank you in advanced
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.
Seeing this video i am thinking about putting two strands of hair into my Fuji 21S. That preview picture is so shit you can't see anything, so I wonder if the machine might not be able to see that it's hair and not an actual fiber.
High precision , normaly they are about 125 micron diameter, so 0.125mm . They have to be linned up precisely and the arc must be strong enough just to melt the tips of the two together but not to strong that is melts all the glass . If it's to powerful you get what happened to the hair in the video
Я раз делал пайку оптики не имея опыта раза 3 не попал но сделать смог на 4 и это учитывая что я не пайщик оптики или это учитывая что на улице -35 было не сразу попал привет из России к стати
@@raysmith984 UA-cam on Android always crash after certain period of time. This is more apparent when you read a lot of comments. Usually it stutters at first, then eventually crash.
@@raysmith984 2 different phones, multiple Android versions. Viewing a lot of comments in incognito leads to UA-cam slowing down. This leads to heavy lags and then crash in the end. Most likely memory leaking issue judging from the symptom.
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
So you'd have to flatten the surface and make sure its pushed together with no gaps?
Since no air gap would also mean no oxide layer
the thermal conductivity of copper (in comparison to optical fiber) makes welding even more complicated.
Copper needs much more power than glass. So even if fiber fusion splicers could do that, it will not work with the same settings.
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?
pretty sure the copper wires were being pushed against eachother, just like the optical fiber
@@breezetix there seems to be a bit of a gap in most of the initial fusion attempts, could very well have been the pushing together though right at that moment.
@@breezetix AC would remove the push in a certain direction; Thanks for that info.
@@raysmith984 in fact the copper would be vibrating from AC
@@breezetix would the fact that copper is an excellent thermal conductor be relevant to the lack of fusing and vibration?
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.
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.
That's the stripper bro. I am a technician but it's so easy. Cause stripper does the job.
It's easy when you do it everyday. Done it with good tools done it with bad tools done it up a telegraph pole with almost fuck all tools it always gets done well when you've experience. It's not a hard job.
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. 😁🤓❤
Ooh that's a nice idea, I'm also playing with the idea of getting me an old splicer
I do this all day most days and it's still cool as hell to see it not through the little lcd screen
I always wondered what would happen if you put copper wire in a fusion splicer
It is a question that has haunted my nights
This, but unironically
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.
My manager thanks you for saving one of our fusion splicers. Someone was going to try it...
Thank and Man .... For showing this... 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
How beautiful this is.....
That's clean af
Never saw it by my own eyes! Clever machine
Was the last one a fiber optic wire? That's pretty cool
That machine is actually made to fuse optic fiber together. There are several places where if you have to replace a section of fiber you'll have to cut it and then fuse them like this
I also think so
These can be a perfect 3d filament welder
Thats fucking sick. Literally no trace that it was ever two pieces.
This is so satisfying to look at
And I watched it happen many times
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.
Always wondered if these splicers were any good for laser fiber
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...
Pretty much. You need to get glass to right temp for good fuse, alignment is important and you also need to consider movement in x and y and z..
@@N4CR5 z axis isn't quite important. long enough plate should solve it already.
Depends on what sort of quality you are after. For best results you need to get the temp just right. At the moment of fusing you need to push the fiber ends together just he right amount I don't think you'll ever get such timing and distance right in a completely manual jig. For communications maybe good enough is good enough, but if it's some measurement instrument or a powerful laser or something then quality of every joint starts making a lot of difference.
@@aleksandersuur9475 Microcontrollers can help with timings and forces.
As a home DIY experiment, for the odd fiber, where quality isn't much of a factor, maybe. Early fiber splicing rigs weren't much more than this, but they were slow. What these modern core alignment fusion splicers do are hundreds of splices per day, to recognisable standards. Oh, and what your really aligning are the cores of the fibers, which are 9 microns in diameter. That's 0.009mm, 0.354/1000 of an inch. This 9 micron core is where the light actually travels (In long distance, single mode fibers).
I saw this last month in our optical fiber lab.
looks insane
awesome!
amazing
Can you mention type of the splicer?? I dont think thats fujikura
Signalfire
Сварка оптоволокна?
Углеродное волокно?
to burn the fiber how much voltage is needed?
google it
Unbelievable precisely
Did this in a 1st year apprenticeship class. Those machines are expensive.
It looks like around 00:18 seconds you can see some vaporized copper but after the second weld it doesn't appear, anyone got any idea why?
That's the enamel cladding which gets blown off with the cleaning burst and burned away with the attempted fusion
Hello All, I'm looking for a supplier to weld copper with plasma technology, can some of you provide me the supplier name for the above movie? thank you in advanced
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.
Seeing this video i am thinking about putting two strands of hair into my Fuji 21S. That preview picture is so shit you can't see anything, so I wonder if the machine might not be able to see that it's hair and not an actual fiber.
if that was a Fuji it would've arced it together lol
🙋♂️👉💫👈👽
Why tf is it being turned on while the material isn't lined up yet
Sorcery! 😮
interesting how our hair melts when burned, almost like its a polymer of some kind...
Lmao, I remember how in uni I used manually operated fiber welding machine to do the same thing.
Maybe try fusing fiber to copper - If it works it could revolutionize the media converter industry.
Lol. You know if we quickly disconnect the power cable and loop it back on itself - infinite power
Beautiful ❤️
Сварка оптоволоконного интернета
put spaghetti through it
Самое главное кусачками откусить, чтоб ровный срез был))
Try silver wire.
What happens if copper wire is*
Copper reach center point
youch
🌡
Якого ж хріна тоді ці апарати так дорого коштують
High precision , normaly they are about 125 micron diameter, so 0.125mm . They have to be linned up precisely and the arc must be strong enough just to melt the tips of the two together but not to strong that is melts all the glass . If it's to powerful you get what happened to the hair in the video
Я раз делал пайку оптики не имея опыта раза 3 не попал но сделать смог на 4 и это учитывая что я не пайщик оптики или это учитывая что на улице -35 было не сразу попал привет из России к стати
DOWNVOTE BECAUSE FUCKING LOUD
Looks a lot more like a plasma cutter, not a 'fusion cutter'.
This video crashed my yt app halfway through.
Seems like more of an issue to blame on your phone than this video.
Try switching it off and on again
@@raysmith984 UA-cam on Android always crash after certain period of time. This is more apparent when you read a lot of comments. Usually it stutters at first, then eventually crash.
@@bltzcstrnx I am on an Android and have never experienced a crash with UA-cam.
@@raysmith984 2 different phones, multiple Android versions. Viewing a lot of comments in incognito leads to UA-cam slowing down. This leads to heavy lags and then crash in the end. Most likely memory leaking issue judging from the symptom.
The answer: The warranty for the fusion splicer is voided.