12-Fiber LGX Adapter Panel, 6 Duplex LC/UPC Single-Mode, Flanged (FAP-SM-LCU-6DF)

This is a 12-fiber LGX adapter panel loaded with six duplex LC/UPC single-mode adapters. It's a 1.6 mm cold-rolled steel plate, 130 by 30 mm, which is the single-width LGX footprint, with the six couplers mounted vertically through it on their plastic flanges. Each adapter has ceramic alignment sleeves and the blue housing that marks UPC, and the LC connectors on the pigtails plug into the back while the patch cords plug into the front, so one plate turns a spliced 12-fiber cable into 12 LC ports. It drops into any LGX slot: the RMFP rack-mount splice-and-patch panels, the RMFP-001 patch-only panel, and any other LGX enclosure. It's sold individually. For the 12-fiber LC pigtails that plug into the back, the PGULC12-SM and PGTLC12-SM; for the cords on the front, the LCLCSM; for the enclosures, the RMFP-015, RMFP-016, RMFP-018, and RMFP-001.

Features

• Six duplex LC/UPC adapters, 12 fibers. Single-mode, blue housings, ceramic alignment sleeves.
• LGX footprint. 130 × 30 mm single-width plate; fits standard LGX panels and enclosures.
• Cold-rolled steel, 1.6 mm.
• Vertical couplers on flanges. Each adapter is held through the plate on its own plastic flanges with metal clips.
• Sold individually.

Where It Fits

It suits a rack-mount splice-and-patch panel in a telecom room or a data center, where a 12-fiber single-mode cable is spliced to LC pigtails in the tray behind and comes out as 12 LC ports on the front. It suits a patch-only LGX panel where pre-terminated single-mode trunks land on LC and the cords run to the switch. Installers filling the LGX slots in an RMFP panel a cable at a time use it, and so do techs replacing a damaged or mismatched plate in an existing LGX enclosure. A wall-mount box with an LGX cutout is a candidate. It goes with the single-mode bulk fiber, the LC pigtails, the splice trays, and the LC patch cords from the fiber collections, and with the LGX enclosures from the fiber panel collection. For a 1U splice-and-patch panel, the RMFP-015. For 2U, the RMFP-016, and for 4U, the RMFP-018. For a patch-only 1U, the RMFP-001. For the pigtails, the PGULC12-SM and PGTLC12-SM. For the cords, the LCLCSM.

Good to Know

UPC is the flat-polish adapter, blue, and it mates with UPC pigtails and UPC cords; an APC connector, green, in a UPC adapter gives an air gap at the angled face and a loss spike, so on a PON or an RF-over-glass plant the panel has to be APC too. This is a single-mode panel; a multimode LC will physically fit, but the sleeves and the blue coding are for 9/125 µm fiber, and a mixed panel invites a wrong patch. Check the LGX slot before you order: 130 by 30 mm is the standard single-width cutout, and this plate is the same footprint as the Corning CCH-CP12-A9, so it fits enclosures built to that pattern; a double-width slot takes two of these or a blank filler beside one. The adapters are vertical, which packs 12 ports into one slot, so the duplex cords stand up and down and the panel's cable management has to clear them. Plug the pigtails into the back before you mount the plate, since there's more room with the plate in your hand, and keep every adapter's dust caps in until a cord goes in; an open adapter in a rack collects dust on the pigtail's ferrule. Keep the A and B fibers of each duplex pair in the right positions on the back so the front polarity comes out as the as-built says. Clean and inspect every connector before it goes into an adapter, and label the plate's ports by fiber number so the tray and the panel agree.

Specifications

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