fiber optic cable
By xhueydriver, Section Classifieds Posted on Tue May 01, 2007 at 07:18:39 PM MST
fiber optic cable

I have about 5000 ft of 6 strand fiber optic cable that was given to me.  I was wondering if anyone had any use for this stuff or if they knew some one that would like it.  Thanks for looking

fiber optic cable | 7 comments (7 topical)

Re: fiber optic cable (3.00 / 0) (#1) by willib on Tue May 01, 2007 at 01:48:03 PM MST

i'll take 20 or thirty feet? Carpe Ventum (seize the wind)

Re: fiber optic cable (3.00 / 0) (#2) by Derek on Tue May 01, 2007 at 03:15:57 PM MST

Haha, thats funny.  I was just about to post something about fiber optic cable.  Here's what I was wondering if anyone had tried.  Take a fresnel lense, and send all of that light into a fiber optic cable.  Fresnel lenses can of course compress all the light into a small area which is easy to start fires with.  Would all of this infrared light transfer through a fiber optic cable? The idea is to be able to have a stationary unit with the fresnel lense and one end of the fiber optic cable.  The other end is open, with the ability to point this concentrated light in any direction.  Could be used for getting camp fires going easy, welding, cutting metal, a weapon, haha, I dont know?!?! Would this work? [ Parent ]

Re: fiber optic cable (3.00 / 0) (#5) by gizmo on Tue May 01, 2007 at 11:30:23 PM MST

Nah, wont work. Well, not with normal run of the mill optic cable. Optic cables are designed to pass a particular bandwidth, and the comunication cables wont pass the infra red light spectrum your talking about. Google YAG Laser, they do use a special optic cable designed to transfer infra red light around the 1.06um range for cutting some steels and plastics. The optic cable is used to transfer the light from the laser diode to the lens at the cutting head. The more powerfull CO2 lasers run at 10.6um and there are no optic cables that can pass this frequency of light, so they have to use mirrors to get the beam of light from the resonator to the lens. We have a 5kW CO2 laser at work and its uses water cooled mirrors 25mm ( 1 inch ) thick to direct the beam. The beam is about 30mm in diameter when it leaves the resonator, and it will burn a 30mm inch hole through a house brick in about 2 minutes, turns into glass! The lens focuses all this energy to a spot 0.2mm ( 5 thousands of an inch ) in diameter, so you can see its not hard for it to cut 20mm thick steel like a hot knife through butter. Glenn http://www.thebackshed.com [ Parent ]

Re: fiber optic cable (3.00 / 0) (#3) by drdongle on Tue May 01, 2007 at 07:34:40 PM MST

Would you be interisted in selling it? if the pricwe is rightr I'll buy it Carpe Vigor, Dr.D

Re: fiber optic cable (3.00 / 0) (#4) by xhueydriver on Tue May 01, 2007 at 10:11:19 PM MST

I would be interested in selling it... you can email me at cmoxey3@charter.net and we can work out the details Thanks [ Parent ]

Re: fiber optic cable (3.00 / 0) (#6) by kenl on Sun May 06, 2007 at 10:42:27 AM MST

single or multi mode, 50 or 62.5 uf, direct plant, plenum or riser? I may be interested in the whole roll if its the right type. If someone needs just 20-30 feet let me know I can send you some 2 strand for nothing. kenny

Re: fiber optic cable (3.00 / 0) (#7) by xhueydriver on Mon May 07, 2007 at 11:11:29 PM MST

I have 2 types, one is 6 strand, and the other is 24 strand.  Both are single mode plenum type cable. It is made by optical cable corporation. Let me know if you are interested... It is 1000+' coils and spools. Thanks Clint [ Parent ]

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