Maintaining a Fiber Optic Fusion Splicer: How 'soil points" can negatively influence results

There are many facets to a fiber optic design and installation. One of them is precision cleaning the connector "end face". Another is precision cleaning prior to the fusion splice operation. It once was where the fusion splicer was a monstrous device and the procedure of joining two bare fibers (barely the size of a human hair) was somewhere between "magic" and "craft" and efficacy of the instrument. In these times, much as end face cleaning, fusion splicing reality exceeds what was once t...