EXFO FIP-500, User Manual

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Getting Started with Your Unit
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FIP-500
Changing Your Unit’s SmarTip
Changing Your Unit’s SmarTip
You can change the SmarTip of your unit to fit the type of connector that
you need to inspect. This is particularly useful if you need to inspect APC
connectors, followed by UPC connectors, or vice versa.
If you need to inspect both single-fiber and multi-fiber connectors, you may
find useful to leave the most frequently used SmarTip attached to its optical
head and change the complete SmarTip–optical head assembly instead.
For more information, see
Changing Your Unit’s Optical Head
on page 26.
The illustrations shown in the procedure hereafter are for the multi-fiber
SmarTips, but the principle remains the same for the single-fiber SmarTips.
I
MPORTANT
You can only install single-fiber SmarTips on a single-fiber optical
head and multi-fiber SmarTips on a multi-fiber optical head.