FieldShield StrongFiber Drop Wheel ® Installation Manual __________________________________________________________ Applications • • FTTH Description The Drop Wheel provides all the components to distribute drop cables in a compact, quick deploy platform. Each Drop Wheel is spooled with 200 feet of FieldShield Strong Fiber pre-terminated with a pullable SC/APC or SC/UPC and a matching standard connector.
FieldShield StrongFiber Drop Wheel ® Installation Manual _________________________________________________________ Mounting the Drop Wheel Cradle Secure the drop wheel cradle with the provided screws following the provided hole diagram. NOTE: In earthquake regions,the drop wheel cradle requires three screws per side. Direct: 763.476.6866 • National: 800.422.2537 • www.SeeClearfield.com • techsupport@clfd.net Manual 019456 REV B - Aug 2018...
FieldShield StrongFiber Drop Wheel ® Installation Manual __________________________________________________________ Deploying StrongFiber 1. Mount Drop Wheel cradle into appropriate mounting holes (previous page), mounting the block of Drop Wheels with the fiber termination ports oriented at the top of the Drop Wheel cradle as shown in (Figure 1). Note: Fiber peels off to the back of the wheel.
FieldShield StrongFiber Drop Wheel ® Installation Manual _________________________________________________________ 5. Assemble the connector, following instructions on the package or the steps below: Assembling Pullable Connector Step 1: Remove the white protective dust cap from the unassembled connector (Figure 1). Note: The SC Pushable Connector has a keyed locking feature that holds the inner housing to the connector and aligns the ferrule when the two are correctly mated.
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FieldShield StrongFiber Drop Wheel ® Installation Manual __________________________________________________________ Additional Slack 6. At the Drop Wheel, route the standard Storage connector from the center of the Drop Wheel through the access slot on the side of the Drop Wheel to the appropriate port on the Drop Wheel Cradle (Figure 5).
Figure 1 These are Clearfield recommended products/application. Use the product you feel will complete your cleaning procedures. Create a “best practice” for your company and follow those procedures.
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FieldShield StrongFiber Drop Wheel ® Installation Manual __________________________________________________________ • CLEAN THE FERRULE…Lightly moisten the fiber optic swab (2.5mm/38542F or 1.25mm/38040) by spotting a small amount (about 1”) of Electro-Wash PX or Electro-Wash MX pen onto the QBE-2. Hold the swab, 1 side down to the wetted area and hold for a count of 1-2-3-4-5. Figure 4 •...
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FieldShield StrongFiber Drop Wheel ® Installation Manual _________________________________________________________ Cleaning an MPO/MTP Connector Female Connector • Place one wiping paper on QbE-2 FiberSafe™ Cleaning Platen and apply small amount of precision cleaner (about 1” in diameter) with Elec- tro-Wash MX pen on to one end of the wipe. Figure 1 •...
Clearfield shall repair or replace the defective Product at its sole option and discretion, and return the repaired or replacement Product to Cus- tomer’s site, freight prepaid Note: If the Product is not found to be defective by Clearfield, the product will be returned to the Customer and the customer billed for freight in both directions.
Proprietary Notice About FieldShield Product Line Application Information contained in this document is copyrighted by Clearfield, Inc. and may not be duplicated in full or part by any person without prior written approval of Clearfield, Inc. Its purpose is to provide the user with adequately detailed documentation to efficiently install the equipment supplied. Every effort has been made to keep the information contained in this document current and accurate as of the date of publication or revision.
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