Welcome
Overview
Congratulations on selecting the APM-HDC-5400, the premier fiber
optic connector polishing machine.
This User’s Guide will assist you in the setup, operation, and
maintenance of the APM-HDC-5400 machine to maximize the
use and life of this equipment.
The APM-HDC-5400 is designed to address the need to efficiently
polish a large volume of connectors while maintaining a consistent
high level of quality.
The APM-HDC-5400 allows you to create processes through an
easy-to-use touch-screen panel. The panel displays programmed
settings for speed, time, pressure, polishing film used, lubricant type
and pad durometer. Additional setting options include: language
selection, ramp-up speed, ramp-up pressure, delayed pressure ap-
ply, speed ramp down, pressure ramp down, polishing fixture weight,
maintenance intervals and polishing film counters. Optional acces-
sories are also available which offer additional capability for special
tasks such as Micro-G® bare fiber polishing and/or DE DataLink®
process data collection. Operators need minimal training to follow the
touch-screen prompts of this easy to use machine.
The number of processes that can be defined and stored within the
APM-HDC-5400 machine is only limited by the amount of internal
memory. Therefore hundreds of processes can be stored on a single
machine. Additionally, the APM-HDC-5400 provides you with total
flexibility in the number of steps you define within each of your
polishing processes.
The APM-HDC-5400 provides the capability to store your processes in
machine memory as well as on a USB storage device. A USB storage
device can be used to back up your defined processes and to copy
processes from one machine to another. This not only saves process
setup time for each machine, but also ensures consistent process
settings.
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