FTTH Prep Kit with Power Meter (TK-185)

Ships direct from the manufacturer. Please allow up to 10 business days, though it often ships sooner.

The Jonard Tools TK-185 is the FTTH technician's case: the tools to open a drop cable, strip and cleave the fiber, clean the connector, find a fault, and then read the power at the end of the run. The FDS-312 opens 2.1 × 3.1 mm flat drop cable and the JIC-186 shears cut its strength member; the JIC-375 three-hole stripper takes the fiber from the 1.6 to 3 mm jacket through the 600 to 900 µm buffer and the 250 µm coating down to the 125 µm glass; the FC-500 precision cleaver cleaves 900 µm buffered or 250 µm coated fiber for a splice or a field connector; the FCC-250 push cleaner and a pack of dry wipes clean 2.5 mm SC, FC, and ST end-faces and the bulkhead adapters they mate into; the VFL-150 lights up a break or a tight bend with visible red light; and the FPM-50A power meter reads absolute power from −50 to +26 dBm and relative loss against a reference, with FC, SC, and LC adapters, so a drop can be proved before you leave. A fiber scraps disposal can and an H-22 rugged case with straps round it out. For a meter that reads the live PON wavelengths at the ONT, the TK-185PON is the same kit with a PON power meter in place of this one.

What's in the Kit

• FPM-50A fiber optic power meter. Measures absolute optical power and relative power loss, −50 to +26 dBm, with FC, SC, and LC adapters.
• FDS-312 fiber drop cable stripper, 2.1 × 3.1 mm. Opens flat FTTH drop cable without touching the fiber inside.
• JIC-375 three-hole fiber optic stripper. Strips the 1.6 to 3 mm fiber jacket, the 600 to 900 µm buffer coating, and the 250 µm coating to expose the 125 µm glass fiber.
• JIC-186 wire and Kevlar cutting shears. Cuts the strength member, cable insulation, tape, and cable ties.
• FC-500 precision fiber cleaver. Cleaves 900 µm buffered or 250 µm coated fiber for splicing and field termination of fiber connectors.
• FCC-250 fiber connector cleaner, 2.5 mm. Single-push cleaning of SC, ST, and FC ferrules, on the cable end and inside bulkhead adapters.
• DW-90 dry wipes. Lint-free wipes for cleaning fiber and end-faces.
• VFL-150 visual fault locator kit. Identifies breakpoints, leaks, poor connections, and stress points in fiber optic cable.
• FDC-66 fiber scraps disposal can. A sealed container for cleaved fiber ends, so glass slivers go in the can and not in the carpet or your hand.
• H-22 rugged carrying case with straps. Keeps the set together on the way from the van to the house.

Where It Fits

It suits FTTH installers and service technicians connecting and troubleshooting drops at the ONT, the terminal, and the splitter, contractors who measure drops with a light source at the far end and want a general-purpose meter rather than a PON-specific one, MDU and enterprise techs who also use the meter on point-to-point single-mode and multimode links, crews building out a network who want prep and test in one case, and a company outfitting new fiber technicians with a matched set from one maker.

Good to Know

The FPM-50A is a general-purpose power meter: it reads absolute power in dBm from any source across 800 to 1700 nm, and relative loss in dB once you've referenced a light source into it, so it measures a drop's loss with a source at the far end, or the receive level at an ONT, on any kind of fiber link. What it doesn't do is separate the PON wavelengths on a live drop; a PON carries 1490 nm down and 1310 nm up at once, and a reading on this meter is the total, so a technician who verifies live GPON drops for a living wants the TK-185PON. Set the meter's wavelength to match the source before you read, and reference with a clean cord in dB mode before a loss test. Clean every connector before every mating with the push cleaner, and use the dry wipes on the bare fiber before it goes in the cleaver. The cleaver is the tool that decides splice or connector quality: keep its blade clean and dry, let it do the work rather than forcing the fiber, and put every cleaved scrap in the disposal can, which is why it's in the kit; bare glass slivers go through skin and don't show on an X-ray. Strip in stages with the three-hole stripper, jacket, then buffer, then coating, with the coating off in short pulls so the glass isn't scored, and follow the connector or splice instructions for the strip and cleave lengths. The visual fault locator goes on a dark fiber only; never look into its output or into an unterminated fiber while it's on, and never look into the meter port or a live fiber either. The kit has no 1.25 mm cleaner, so an LC connector at the ONT needs an FCC-125, and no mid-span tools for distribution cable, which is the TK-106 and TK-107 kits' job.

Specifications

Documentation