Probably not a splitter. It gets very confused shooting past it (both our cheap China & the demo Veex).
On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 3:24 PM Trey Scarborough <t...@3dsc.co> wrote: > Could be a bad splice, but if it is a splitter it could just be an > artifact of that. It all depends on the type of splitter you are using and > what wavelength the OTDR is. It also depends what is on the other ends of > the splitter. If that is a splitter with nothing spliced to one of the ends > you can get a reflection off of a dead end. > On 9/28/23 8:32 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: > > Can you have return loss (i.e. reflections) on bad fusion splices? > > Attached trace is a splitter showing return loss. It's supposed to be > fusion spliced, not connectorized. There are several of these on this > project. Trying to figure out if contractor snuck in some incorrect parts > or if he's got issues with his fusion splicer. I'd assume it's bad > splices, but maybe coincidentally the reflectance just happens to be about > right for UPC connectors. > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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