00:00Top 5 Fiber Test Pens for Cable Fault Finding
00:03Alright, fiber's down and nobody knows why.
00:07I went deep into the deal so you don't have to, and today it's top 5 fiber test pens for
00:11cable fault finding. These are the 5 things that live in my bag, and the prices are honestly
00:16ridiculous. Number 1 is the actual pen, this 80km visual fault locator, 80mW at 650nm,
00:25and the beam is bright enough to trace a strand through a patch panel without shutting half the
00:29room down. The knurled, non-slip handle feels great in a sweaty hand, and it's rated 4.5 stars by
00:35almost 5,000 buyers, so it's a proven workhorse. 1164? That's less than lunch. If you buy one thing,
00:44make it this. Number 2 is in a pen, but it might save your whole afternoon, an AOC SFP Plus
00:50to SFP
00:51Plus Active Optical Cable, O&2, LSEH Jacket, and it works with Cisco, MikroTik, Ubiquiti,
00:57whatever's already in your rack. The genius is it's all-in-one, so no separate transceivers,
01:03no compatibility roulette. Lengths run 3-20 meters, it pulls a 4.9 rating, and 1387 is a
01:10steal for a clean 10G run. Number 3 is just a patch cord, and I promise, go check your box.
01:1710GIG OM3 OM4, LC-UPC to LC-UPC, duplex multimode, and look, a 2.0mm jacket,
01:24way more flexible than the chunky 3mm stuff. $5.51 for a spare cord you can bend without begging?
01:32Grab 2, especially with that 4.8 star rating behind it.
01:36Number 4 is under 3 bucks, and it's the smartest purchase on the entire list.
01:412 ceramic tube sleeves and 2 metal head connector adapters,
01:45made specifically for these visual fault locators. Here's the thing, when the ferrule gets scuffed,
01:50the beam scatters, and now you're debugging your own tool instead of the cable.
01:55$2.94 for spares means you're never waiting on a delivery. Do it!
02:01Alright, that's the list, and all 5 links are sitting in the description below,
02:05so grab them before the prices wander off.
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