Industry Links and Resources

As technology evolves, standards are not keeping up. They can take 5 years (or more!) to develop! Many technicians in the field could benefit from easy access to information in a format that works well on a phone or tablet. Best Practice Bulletins (BPB) can help fill these gaps. BPBs are an easy to understand application-specific document that you can view in an easy to understand format. While training is always needed, a refresher on your phone could mean the difference between success or failure!

Check out the full Best Practices Bulltetins presentation by ETA Executive Board member Bill Woodward, FOD, for a more in-depth overview.

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• www.circuits.io
• www.circuitlab.com

• Adafruit YouTube Channel

iRox Manufacturing processes - industrial electronics

• Episode 1 - Optical Cable types; Optical Cable Designs; Cable environments; The demands that applications are putting on cables
• Episode 2 - 4 types of cable designs; Distribution and Breakout styles used in the Premise/enterprise side of the industry and are commonly connectorized; Loose Tube and Uni-tube/central core cables used in the Outside Plant side of the industry which are commonly fusion spliced together and terminated by splicing pigtails on/to the fibers
• Episode 3 - Wrapping up current Fiber Optic Cable Type Discussions; What component is use to and connects fiber strands to Passive or active component with Physical Infrastructures; Mechanical/splice-on connectors; A Traditional Connector assembly method/option; The 4 most commonly used connector style types; Connector quality variations causes; Opening discussion about Loss and reflectance effect and impact of and related to connectors; Connector Acronyms
• Episode 4 - The continuation of Connector types; Expanding to connector grades, polishes and the application they are used in; The effects that the design differences have on networks and applications, as well and their impact, survivability and characteristics in the environments they are installed in; The use of connector adapters/bulkheads
• Episode 5 - Wet and Dry-cleaning industry options, why it important and what the impacts are
• Episode 6 - Inspection
• Episode 7 - OTDR's from an entry level perspective
• Episode 8 - Next level of OTDR feature function, why, purpose, and application needs and requirements
• Episode 9 - Continues the discussion on OTDR's details with a focus on the magnification/zoom in functions; what they provide, how they enhance, and the tremendous benefit they provide you
• Episode 10 - OTDR Grab Bag and wrap up episode on the topic
• Episode 11 - Discussion of optical Test Sets; setting them up, how to use them, and differences
• Episode 12 - Final Episode which covers: VFL’s Visual Fault Locators, Fiber Optic Traffic Identifiers, Optical Loss Test Set’s and 1, 2 and 3 cord referencing, applications for, why and how.

• YouTube training courses videos

• Colorado Photonics Industry Association (CPIA)
• National Center for Optics & Photonics Education (OP-TEC)
• The Optical Society (OSA)
• Photonics Industry Association of New York (PIANY)
• SPIE

• Field Guide to Infrared Systems, Detectors, and FPAs, Second Edition
• Field Guide to Optical Fiber Technology
• Field Guide to Geometrical Optics
• Field Guide to Lasers
• Field Guide to Polarization
• Field Guide to Laser Pulse Generation
• Field Guide to Optical Thin Films
• Field Guide to Interferometric Optical Testing
• Photonics Online.com

• Solar Energy Basics
• Solar Action Alliance
• National Council for Solar Growth

• Passive Solar Energy Book
• Passive Solar Design

• How Do Photovoltaics Work?

• Energy.gov - Energy Saver
• Solar Heating Glossary

• Energy Kids - Renewable Solar
• Solar Resource Information
• Solar Jobs Census
• What are Solar Cells?
• Solar Power Guide

• Distributed Antenna Systems
• Public Safety DAS and BDAS for NFPA
• Femtocells, Microcells, and Metrocells