[rescue] Fiber loop simulators?

[George Adkins]

On Thursday 25 April 2002 02:10 pm, you wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Robert Novak wrote:
> > Anybody got experience or advice on a long-haul fiber optic simulator?
> > Something that would let me simulate a connection from my computer room
> > to Bill's garage without actually leasing or drawing fiber? I seem to
> > recall some of them at my last job that were pretty much a metric
> > dekabuttload of fiber in a big metal box with SC or ST connectors
> > sticking out.
>
> You can calculate the amount of optical loss in the cable and
> intentionally botch a splice. Using one of those, my father saved the
> goverment like $10k (at the time). It was a calibrated attenuator.

How about a little tiny box with a pair of ST mounts inside and a micrometer 
screw  for distracting the ferrules from one another in order to diminish the 
signal?

or make a series of progressively darker glass windows that you could rotate 
in between them to "Dial A Distance"

George
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