FlexScan
®
FS300 QUAD OTDR
With SmartAuto
and LinkMap
User’s Guide
Test & Inspection
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Page 1: ...FlexScan FS300 QUAD OTDR With SmartAuto and LinkMap User s Guide Test Inspection Test Inspection www AFLglobal com ...
Page 2: ...al time OTDR 23 Understanding Expert and Real time OTDR Settings 23 Expert and Real time OTDR Setup 24 Test Sequence in Expert OTDR Mode 25 Test Sequence in Real time OTDR Mode 25 Light Source and Power Meter Operation 26 Light Source Settings and Features 26 Power Meter Settings and Features 26 Inspecting Fibers with FOCIS Series Inspection Probe and FlexScan 27 FOCIS Flex Inspection Probe Overvi...
Page 3: ...TION Do not run any tests or perform functions that activate a FlexScan laser unless fiber is attached to the corresponding port CAUTION To avoid serious eye injury never look directly into the optical outputs of fiber optic network equipment test equipment patch cords or test jumpers Refer to your company s safety procedures when working with optical systems NOTICE Except user replaceable battery...
Page 4: ...Light Source port 7 Single mode OTDR Source port This is a CLASS I LASER output Single mode OTDR Light Source port 8 VFL port This is a CLASS IIIa 3R LASER output Avoid exposure to the beam The VFL visual fault locator port is a 635 nm visible red laser Used for short range fault location 9 Power meter port Optical Power Meter port Used for power dBm W or loss dB measurements 10 Touchscreen displa...
Page 5: ... is ON battery icon shown on the display indicates battery status as follows Battery fully charged Battery partially charged Battery discharged Battery charging Battery fully charged Battery partially charged and Battery discharged symbols will only be shown when unit is operating without being connected to AC Configuring FlexScan to Auto Off The Auto Off feature is available for conserving batter...
Page 6: ...TDR test with real time updates 4 Power Meter Source OPM OLS Enable light source and or measure optical power 5 Connector Inspection View connector inspection results received via Bluetooth from FOCIS Flex FOCIS Duel or FOCIS Lightning probe 6 My Projects Touch to view test results 7 USB Touch to enable file transfer Enabling this mode allows the user to connect to a PC to upload results to the PC...
Page 7: ...ance will be reported as dB km distance units m or km dB kft distance units ft or kft dB mi distance units mi WiFi touch to configure WiFi Enable WiFi Scan for networks Select from available networks Connect enter password if required General Settings While in the General Settings screen Touch the desired setting field e g Language to display a sub menu Touch Left Right Arrows to display additiona...
Page 8: ...Use controls to change increment or decrement the selected parameter value Touch Done to save changes and return to the General Settings screen Touch Cancel or Back to return to Settings menu without saving edits Auto Off Timer Touch to display a sub screen and select Auto Off option Never 5 min 15 min Bluetooth Touch to display a sub screen and enable Bluetooth Enable Bluetooth touch the on off c...
Page 9: ...tness Select Bright icon and adjust slider right left or use controls to increase or decrease brightness Timer control Select and adjust time delay after last touchscreen action before display auto dims if Auto Brightness enabled Press Done to save changes and return to the General Settings screen Touch Left Right Arrows to display additional General Settings screen Auto Save and Auto Send Touch A...
Page 10: ...t values Touch Done to restore settings without deleting saved results Touch Cancel to exit without restoring settings to factory default values Camera Button Function Enable Screenshot Mode to allow currently displayed screen to be captured and saved to internal memory Screenshot Mode allows the currently displayed screen to be captured and saved to internal memory When Screenshot Mode is enabled...
Page 11: ...tic MPO Switch control Touch Switch Mode Manual MPO Switch channel controlled manually by user Auto User Automatic channels configured by user Auto Base 12 Automatically test all 12 fibers Auto Base 10 Automatically test 10 fibers 2 11 Auto Base 8 Automatically test 8 fibers 3 10 Auto Base 8a Automatically test 8 fibers 1 4 9 12 If Auto User selected touch Fibers to Test to configure fibers to tes...
Page 12: ...heck option enabled in the OTDR or General Settings screen initiate an OTDR test The FlexScan will assess the loss and reflectance at the OTDR s connection to the launch cord fiber ring or fiber under test If excess loss or reflectance is detected the OTDR displays the Launch Quality is Poor warning screen From this screen the user may chose to perform one of the following Cancel a test by touchin...
Page 13: ...tion of the network 2 Event Table View displays measurements for the currently selected Link Summary Event or Section 3 Trace View Displays OTDR trace s graph scale dB div m div A B cursor locations A to B cursor distance loss reflectance and loss distance measurements 4 Test Info View displays summary of OTDR settings used for this test In Real time OTDR test results are displayed in Trace View o...
Page 14: ...tion is selected You may chose Auto detect option or select Split Ratio from the available options Auto Automatically detects splitters and reports split ratio based on loss Note Excess loss at splitter may result in incorrect split ratio being reported Select split ratio for each expected splitter Up to 3 splitters may be configured Test Wavelength Test Wavelength s option is disabled SmartAuto a...
Page 15: ...open and view the default settings as follows Group Index of Refraction GIR Backscatter Coefficient BC Fiber Attenuation ACI Loss per Distance Touch Back to return to the OTDR Setup screen To view and edit User Fiber Type Settings While in the OTDR Setup screen make sure the User Fiber Type label is displayed in the Fiber Type field If not touch the Fiber Type field to display the Fiber Type menu ...
Page 16: ...rols enter the desired length Touch Done to save changes and return to the OTDR Setup screen Pass Fail Rule Touch Pass Fail Rule option to select ITU G 671 TIA 568 3 D or User configured rules ITU G 671 Pass Fail Settings may be viewed but NOT changed TIA 568 3 D Pass Fail Settings may be viewed but NOT changed User Pass Fail Settings may be viewed and changed OTDR results are evaluated against se...
Page 17: ...TU G 671 TIA 568 3 D Rule is displayed in the Pass Fail Rule field If not touch the Pass Fail Rule field to display the Rules menu and touch the ITU G 671 TIA 568 3 D option to select When back in the OTDR Setup screen touch and hold the displayed Rule to open one of the settings screen Splice Fiber Section Limits screen Connector Pass Fail limit screen One of three Splitter Pass Fail Limit screen...
Page 18: ...ns Touch the desired threshold field to display its Editor screen Edit the threshold value using on screen controls Touch Done to save changes and return to the Thresholds screen Touch to return to the OTDR Setup screen To Start SmartAuto OTDR Test 1 Initiate the SmartAuto test by touching Start soft key or pressing Start Stop button 2 FlexScan begins testing with the Live Fiber check and if a liv...
Page 19: ...k Summary icon may be green all events passed or red one or more events failed 12 Event icon event icons may be green pass or red fail Pass Fail fault is based on event loss and reflectance thresholds configured by the currently selected Pass Fail Rule 13 Fiber Section between events 14 Selection marker indicates selected Summary Event or Fiber Section for which additional details are displayed 15...
Page 20: ...ab Event Table View displays measurements for the currently selected Link Summary Event or Section Touch the desired Event icon or Section to learn more details about that Event or Section Swipe or touch Left Right Arrows to move to previous or next fiber Section or Event Touch Event Table tab to view selected Summary Event or Section details ...
Page 21: ...nt Controls Notes Swipe to pan up down left right Pinch to zoom in out horizontally or vertically Touch hold moves the active cursor to touched area dragging after touch hold drags the active cursor 10 Touch to select active cursor A or B Yellow highlight indicates the currently active cursor Cursor A is always located to the left of cursor B 11 Lock Unlock A B cursors when locked cursors move tog...
Page 22: ...a point where the active cursor intersects with the active wavelength trace Unzoom Rezoom icon toggles to show expected function when touched e g if zoomed in icon shows Unzoom state 10 Touch non highlighted cursor box to make cursor active A or B Yellow highlight indicates the currently active cursor Cursor A is always located to the left of cursor B Cursor B is always located to the right of cur...
Page 23: ...les SMF range 250 m to 240 km MMF range 250 m to 40 km Pulse Width Short pulse widths provide the shortest event and attenuation dead zones Longer pulse widths provide smoother trace but closely spaced events may overlap and be reported as single event Longer pulse widths only available on longer Trace Lengths Pass Fail Rules Select Pass fail Rules ITU G 671 TIA 568 3 D or User See sections Pass F...
Page 24: ...oint SMF or MMF FTTH PON SMF 2 Choose wavelength s 1310 1550 or 1310 1550 nm 850 1300 or 850 1300 nm 3 Select Pulse Width This setting depends on the selected Trace Length For longer test ranges additional pulse widths are found on 2nd page 4 Set the Launch Tail Cord length Enable disable Launch Quality Check 5 Select Fiber Type OMx or User MMF G 65x or User SMF 6 Select Trace Length in Distance u...
Page 25: ... LinkMap View For details see section Understanding LinkMap View Features on page 19 Event Table View For details see section Understanding Event Table View Features on page 20 Trace View For details see section Understanding Trace View Features on page 21 Test Info View This View displays summary of OTDR settings used for this test Test Sequence in Real time OTDR Mode Initiate Real time OTDR test...
Page 26: ... Use CW mode for loss measurements with non Wave ID power meter Generate Tone for fiber identification 270 Hz 330 Hz 1 kHz 2 kHz 3 Touch Wavelength field to select test wavelength Power Meter Settings and Features 4 If used with non Wave ID source touch λ to select wavelength If used with Wave ID source power meter automatically synchronizes to and indicates received wavelength s 5 Touch and hold ...
Page 27: ...erate FOCIS Flex FOCIS Duel or FOCIS Lightning inspection probe please refer to the FOCIS Flex FOCIS Duel or FOCIS Lightning User s Guide available on www AFLglobal com In this User s Guide FOCIS Flex model is used as example in the following sections with describe Bluetooth pairing and inspection process FOCIS Flex Inspection Probe Overview Controls 1 Power button 2 Image Capture button 3 F1 soft...
Page 28: ...r Select Previously Connected to view and select from list of previously connected devices Touch a previously connected device to reconnect Solid star indicates selected device In the device name field you will see Bluetooth ID displayed for your FlexScan device Enable Bluetooth on FOCIS Flex From FOCIS probe Main Menu select Settings then press Select From the displayed Settings Menu select Bluet...
Page 29: ...er connector mounted in a bulkhead adapter slide the adapter tip into the bulkhead adapter You will see a Live fiber end image appears on the FOCIS Flex display Capture the displayed image by pressing the Capture button Refer to section FOCIS Flex Inspection Probe Overview on page 27 Once captured the fiber end face image is analyzed by the FOCIS Flex Once analysis is done inspection results will ...
Page 30: ...uch Results to display File Manager and navigate to the desired Project Fiber Group folder Project End 1 End 2 and Cable are user defined in Text Editor Fiber number auto increments after each save but can be modified in Number Editor as needed Touch Done when finished For Bi directional OTDR reports results must be obtained and stored from each end of the network Use same test settings range puls...
Page 31: ...iate results from both ends proper naming of test results is critical Use same Project name and Fiber Group name when testing from each end Fiber Group name created from End1 End2 and Cable names Use same End1 and End2 names Set OTDR End1 when testing from End1 Set OTDR End2 when testing from End2 Saving to a Newly Created Folder While in the Results view touch Menu icon From the displayed sub scr...
Page 32: ...ages Enable disable Auto Save Send and configure naming from General Settings When Auto save is enabled and an OTDR test completes the user is prompted to confirm Save Cancel or Save As with new file naming parameters When Auto send is enabled FS300 is Bluetooth paired to a mobile device running the FlexScan App FS300 sends SOR file results from the completed test to the FlexScan App Error conditi...
Page 33: ... the Menu soft key to display a sub menu Touch Delete Then touch Done to confirm deletion Viewing Saved Test Results To View Saved Test Results From the Home screen touch My Projects Navigate through Project Fiber Group Fiber screens to locate the desired test record then touch it to display test results Touch up down keys or swipe to scroll up down through list of files Touch Folder Up icon to na...
Page 34: ...esults Note Before removing the USB cable connecting your FlexScan to your PC or pressing the Cancel soft key on the USB screen left click the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the Start bar of your PC then left click the Safely remove USB Mass Storage Device Drive X message where X is the drive letter assigned to your FlexScan Back Up Saved Results to USB Memory To back up internally stored results ...
Page 35: ...Touch Done to complete setup and generate PDF report Generated PDF report will be saved to the same RESULTS TRACES PROJECT folder as test results Touch OK when done Uploading PDF reports to PC Connect FlexScan to PC via FlexScan s micro USB function port and USB port on a PC On FlexScan enable USB mode on Home screen On PC navigate to FS300 X RESULTS TRACES Destination PROJECT folder Upload PDF re...
Page 36: ...enu soft key From the displayed sub screen touch Info View FlexScan Info displayed on the Device Information screen Model Number Displays the Model Number of your FlexScan Software Operating System and Application software Calibration Date FlexScan s calibration date Serial Number FlexScan s serial number Optical Software Revision of current optical firmware Bluetooth Software Revision of current ...
Page 37: ...ional application information Warranty Terms and Conditions AFL products are warranted against defective material and workmanship for a period of 1 one year from the date of delivery to the end user Any product that is found defective within the warranty period will at the discretion of AFL be repaired or replaced Warranty will be voided if the product has been repaired or altered by other than an...
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