QIIRUN SD-9 Fiber Fusion Splicer Instruction Manual

QIIRUN SD-9 Fiber Fusion Splicer

Summary

• Thanks for choosing our product. This manual mainly introduces the function, instructions, maintenance as well as precautions to help you get familiar with the operations.
• By adopting innovative design and exquisite manufacturing technology, this splicer will give you unprecedented splicing experience. The brand new technology greatly shortens the time for splicing and heating: Micron-level parallel clamping, high precision alignment of the spindle, and the advanced contour inspection technology ensure the accuracy of estimation for splicing loss; light body, exquisite design with strong solid protective shell can make itself work in harsh environment;
• Touch screen application with fully automatic splicing procedures will bring great convenience to users.

Technical Specification

Installation

Security warning
Fiber Fusion Splicer is designed for splicing of silica glass fiber which can not be used for any other purposes. It’s a precision instrument which should be handled with great care, and obey the following safety rules and regulations:

• Do not use the fusion splicer in explosion hazard, don’t expose it to the open flame, electric shock, raining or wet environment;
• Do not touch the electrode bar at any time when power is on.
• Wear protective glasses when prepare the fiber, or it will cause bad influences to your eyes, skin.
• Please do not disassemble any parts of the splicer except the allowed users. Replacement and internal adjustment could only be operated by manufacturer or the authorized maintenance personnel.
• Please take the battery when anything below happen: – Abnormal smoke, smell, sound or heating.
  • Liquid, foreign matter getting into internal of the fusion splicer.
  • Machine being damaged or broken.
• If any above problems happen, please contact the service center immediately. Failure to take measures in time would result in the machines totally broken, or even cause a fire, human injury or death.
• Only standard battery from manufacturer is allowed to use. Improper use of AC power may result in fire, electric shock and equipment damage, and may even cause fire, human injury or death.
• Only standard adapter from manufacturer is allowed to use. Do not put heavy objects on the battery line, do not heat or change the cable. Improper or broken cable will result in fire, electric shock and equipment damage, and may even cause fire, human injury or death.
• To avoid fire or danger, please do not stack the battery together with the adapter when charging.
  Attention: Only professional electrode bars can be used. If replace electrode, Please select option in the system maintenance or turn off the power in advance, The discharge operation is not permitted before the paired electrode bars are mounted.

Battery precautions

• Its recommended the battery pack be stored separately from the machine when the fusion splicer is not used for over 1 month.
• Battery can not be transported or stored with other metal objects.
• Do not charge or discharge for long time in low temperature or high temperature, so as not to reduce the life of the battery or accident.
• Prohibit using metal objects such as wire to connect the positive and negative end of the battery.
• Prohibit shortcut of the positive or negative of the battery with the aluminum plastic packaging layer of the core.
• Do not disassemble the battery personally or into fire, so as to avoid an explosion.
• Batteries belong to consumables and have a certain lifetime. When checking the battery pack power, if all indicator lights are on, but splicing times are few, please change the battery.
• After completion of battery pack charging by adapter, disconnect the power timely, long time of full power charging will harm the battery itself or cause accident.
• Do not heat or throw the battery into water.
• Charging besides fire or hot environment is forbidden.
• Putting the battery into microwave or high is pressure container.
• long-term usage or placement under high temperature environment, like strong sunshine or hot car, is forbidden, otherwise, the battery will overheat, fire, or function recess, battery life will be reduced .
• Using of the broken batteries is forbidden. Batteries that leak electrolyte or smell of electrolyte should be kept away from fire to avoid battery fire or explosion; if the electrolyte leaks and come into contact with the skin or other parts of the body, it should be washed with water immediately. If the electrolyte is in contact with the eyes, it should be washed immediately with water and then hospitalized nearby .

Maintenance and appearance protection

• Check and clean the V-groove timely, avoid touching the V-groove and electrode bar with hard object.
• Use a dry cloth to remove dust and dirt from the splicer .
• If the Splicer is dirty, avoid using acetone and thinner of paint to clean any parts of the splicer, dehumidified soft cloth immersed by neutral cleaning liquid can be used instead. Use dry cloth to clean the splicer, do not use furniture polish or other cleaner.

Transportation and storage

• Do not store the splicer in dusty or wet environment. Otherwise it will cause electric shock, and the performance of the splicer will be reduced or even damaged .
• Keep the minimum humidity while preservation, and the relative humidity should be less than 95%.
• When the splicer is moved to a warm environment from a cold environment, try a gradual warming-up method, otherwise condensation will income inside the machine which will influence the splicer.
• Try to avoid strong impact and vibration after the splicer being precisely adjusted and calibrated. Please use special-made carrying case for long distance transportation .
• Avoid direct sunlight or in overheat environment.
• To ensure performance, it is recommended to carry out a whole maintenance once a year.
• Splicer must be repaired and adjusted by technicians. Please contact manufacturer if there is problem.

Basic Operation

Appearance overview

Battery charging
The battery installation is shown below:

Power on
Press the power button of the operation panel of the fusion splicer and wait for it to start and enter into the display work screen .

Adjust the brightness of LCD backlight
In the initial interface, press the to adjust the LCD backlight brightness until clear.

Preparation steps for fibers

• There are three steps for preparing for fibers before splicing:
  Coating stripping.

• At least peel off the jacket leaving 50mm coating (loose and tight set of fiber). Remove the coating with a stripper, the length should be 30-40mm.

  • Use cloth or cotton paper immersed by only 99% or better purity alcohol to clean the fiber.
  • Cleave the fiber.

• Use high precise cleaving machine to cleave the fiber. To ensure the splicing quality, fiber cleaver should be used, such as 9C series cleaver, and control the cleaving length strictly, like below.
  Tips: Remember to fit the heat shrinkable sleeve during fiber pretreatment.
  Important! Make sure the bare optical fiber and its cleaving surface are not stained.

  • Avoid putting the fiber in dirty table
  • Avoid fiber swaying in air
  • Check whether the V groove and hammer are clean, if not clean, it must be cleaned with alcohol swab.

Automatic inspection of optical fiber
After placing the fiber, fusion splicer starts, and there will be discharging cleaning. After that, check the splicing angle and splicing quality of the cleaving surface. Buzzer will alarm if the angle is bigger than the limited value or glitch on the cleaving surface, and there will be warning on the monitor.

Splicing procedures

1. Turn on the power, when splice SM fiber (ITU-T.G. 652), SM mode is suggested.
2. Confirm splicing and heating mode, when splice different types of fibers, Auto Mode is suggested, splicing speed will be slower .
3. Clean the fiber or heating shrinkable tube. Penetrate the fiber into heat shrinkable tube .
4. Stripper the fiber and clean it with 99% or better purity alcohol.
   Make sure the coating trash or dirt is cleaned out.

5. Pis protect the cleaved fiber end from any touching of hard object.

6. Set the fiber between the V-groove and two electrodes .

7. Close the winder-proof cap, automatic splicing starts, visual inspection on LCD while splicing .
   Attention: please don’t slide the fiber along the V-groove . The cutting section should surpass the V-groove but not beyond the tip of the electrode .

8. Remove the spliced fiber, centering protective sleeve in heat tanker, centering the splicing point in heat sleeve, heating automatically starts when cover closed .

9. Completed.
   Attention: when the splicing loss or the altitude change is big, Electrode stabilize and ARC calibration must be executed .

Magnification function of the screen
Users can double click the screen to magnify the monitor so as to inspect the splicing crack and estimate the splicing state.

Splicing Mode

The menu is concise and easy to operate. each splicing mode defines the splicing current, time and other important parameter. It’s vital to select the right splicing mode. There is a pre-defined value of the usual fiber composite fusion pattern . In this way, it becomes easier to modify the splicing mode and optimize the combination parameter of the uncommonly used fiber

Display of the current splicing mode
Current splicing mode

Selection of the splicing mode

• Click enter [Splice Menu].
• Enter into the splicing mode and select and press the needed one (yellow font is the current splicing mode) .
• Check the chosen splicing mode and press “Return” to return to the initial interface .

Parameter in general splicing

Splicing Options

• Enter into [Splice Option] menu .
• Click and choose item, modify parameter.

Heating Mode

There are 50 heating modes stored, 5 default heating modes, user can define and add as them like. Choose the best heating mode match the used heat shrinkable tube. For each heat sleeve, user can edit and define the corresponding parameters.

Selection for heating mode
Choose and enter into [Heater Menu].

• Enter into [Heater Menu].
• Enter into [Heater Menu], choose the needed mode, then press until the font become yellow; this is the current splicing mode.

• Check the chosen heating mode, press back to return to the initial interface.

Edit the heating mode
Heating conditions stored in “heating mode” can be edited and modified .

• Enter into [Heater Menu] and edit, select [Edit] to enter into [Edit Heater Mode].
• Choose and edit the parameter, after which, press [Confirm] .

Delete heating mode
Enter into [Heater Menu], choose the mode you want to delete, press [Delete], press [Confirm] on the tooltip .

System Maintenance

Dust checking
The fusion splicer detects the dust on fiber, camera or objective by imaging, which can influence the splicing result. This function can detect the dust on the optical channel and judge whether it will influence splicing quality or not.
Operations

• Choose [dust checking] in [system maintenance].
• If fiber already set in the fusion splicer, take out the fiber and press [set] to start dust checking.
• If dust is found while checking, [executive failure] will be noted on monitor. Clean the objective and perform dust checking again, until it shows [operation completed]. Attention: if the dust still remains after cleaning, please contact the agent or manufacturer.

ARC calibration
Motors are adjusted before exit-factory. Certainly, these settings may change for a variety of reasons. This function automatically calibrates the speed of 6 motors.
Operations

• Choose [ARC calibration] in (system maintenance].
• Prepare for the fiber and put into fusion splicer, press [set].
• Speed of all motors will be automatically calibrated, and will hint for completion.

Electrode stabilize
When the environment changes dramatically, the discharge strength will become unstable which will increase the splicing loss, especially when it changes from low altitude to high altitude, it needs some time to stabilize the discharge strength. Under this condition, electrode stabilize would need to be performed for several times until it shows [stabilize finished].
Operations

• Select [electrode stabilize] in [system maintenance).
• Put the prepared fiber into fusion splicer.
• Press [set], it will starts to stabilize electrode automatically according to following procedures.
  1. Discharge repeated for 5 times to ensure the place of electrode.
  2. Splicing the fiber quickly.
  3. The electrode position is accurately measured 16 times of electrode stabilize.

ARC calibration
Atmosphere like temperature, humidity, air pressure are always changing. This makes the discharging temperature change as well. The machine is equipped with temperature and air pressure sensor which can give feedback to the control system to adjust the discharge intensity to maintain a steady state. Automatic calibration is not suitable for changes caused by the wear of motors and fiber trash adhesion, and the center position of discharging sometimes moves to the left or right.
In this condition, the fiber will be shifted relative to the discharge center, ARC calibration will be needed.
Attention: Discharge calibration changes the internal condition parameter not the discharging strength in splicing mode.
Operations

• Select [ARC calibration] in (system maintenance], display the calibration image .
• Prepare the fiber into fusion splicer, press [set] to start calibration until it shows “completion”, or cleaving the fiber and do it again, don’t exit the discharging calibration page .
  Attention: ARC calibration should be performed for several times until success .

Electrode setting

• The splicing loss will be enlarged and splicing strength will be reduced when the discharging times exceed the electrode life. The electrode is worn by use and must be regularly cleared according to the concentration of the oxide. Set a reminder when the electrode was used for 2000 times, and it is recommended to update new electrode bar when splicing over 2000 times .
• When over 3000 times, there will be (please change the electrode bar) reminder when turning on.
  • When change the electrode bar, please press [replace electrode] in [electrode setting] or turn off the power and change .
  • loosen the screw on the electrode, take off the old electrode bars.
  • Be careful not pull the wiring out when replacing the electrode bars.
  • Clean the new electrode bar with a clean swab or dust-free cloth dipped in alcohol, then install to the fusion splicer, place the electrode cover and tighten screws .
  • It is strongly recommended that after replacing the electrode, electrode stabilize and discharge calibration should be done (operations are described below), or else splicing loss and strength cannot be assured.

Other Function And Applications

Records storage
Utmost 20000 splicing results can be stored. According to different splicing modes, the storage contents are different.

• Display of splicing records

  • The storage results can be displayed in fusion splicer.
  • Enter into [splicing records] menu, select [splicing records display] and inspect.

• Delete splicing records
  Select [delete splicing records] option, input password of the fusion splicer and press [Enter] to delete all splicing records.

• Cancel data storage
  If the user does not want to store the splicing records, please press [OK] in [Stored Records].

System settings

System information
Select [system info], below message will be shown.

Excessive Splicing Loss And Solutions

Attention: when splice different types of fibers (different diameter) or multimode fiber, sometimes there will be an upright line on the splicing point, we call it [splicing line], this doesn’t influence the splicing quality (splicing loss and splicing strength) .

Common Error And Solutions

When using fusion splicer, if there is error reminder, please refer to the following solution. If problems still cannot be solved, then must be mistaking in fusion splicer, then please contact the dealer for help.

Common Malfunctions And Solutions

For user’s reference when they have problems, solutions to some common malfunctions are listed below. If problems still remain, please contact the local agent.

Attachment Quick User Guide

Key Panel

Led Light Indication

• Turning ON
  Press Key Until Blue LED Turns On

• Turning OFF
  Press Key Until Blue LED Turns Off

• **Heater LED (Red)

**

How To Recharge Battery Pack

• Input power: AC100-240V, 50-60Hz
• Use only supplied AC power cord .
• Do not stack battery pack on top of AC adapter while recharging
• Confirm power saving function is working when using battery .

How to check remaining capacity

Cleaning Before Splice Operation

• V-grooves

1. Clean bottom of V-groove with a thin cotton swab moistened with alcohol.
2. Remove excess alcohol from V-groove with a clean dry swab .
3. Use a cleaved fiber end-face to dislodge .

• Fiber Cleaver

1. Clean rubber pads
2. Clean rubber anvil
3. Clean blade

• Fiber Clamp Chips and Objective Lens
  When lens is dirty, clean it.

Caution of Cleaning

  * Do not contact the electrode tips
  * Use only 99% or better purity of alcohol.

Replace Electrodes
When “Replace electrodes” message appears, or when the tip is damaged, replace electrodes.

1. Execute [Replace Electrodes] in Maintenance Menu.
2. Use attached screw driver to replace electrodes.
3. Loosen screws and remove the electrode cover @ Place the electrode cover and tighten screw.

2. Load prepared fibers onto the splicer. Execute [Electrode Stablilize] [Arc Adjust] is executed

Ways Of Solution Of Common Error

Steps Of Operation

Note When splicing loss is large or When an altitude changes drastically, [stabilizing electrodes] and [Arc Adjust] must be executed before splicingo

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