Fiber optic question
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From: Chico Ca
Fiber optic question
I was under the dash of my 68 looking at the hood release and noticed somethign I had never seen a bunch of fiber optics coming through the floor board unfortunatley they were all cut in half 
I feel so bad! My question being Can you splice fiber optics?
I feel so bad! My question being Can you splice fiber optics?
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Originally Posted by Love My 72 and 77
I was under the dash of my 68 looking at the hood release and noticed somethign I had never seen a bunch of fiber optics coming through the floor board unfortunatley they were all cut in half I feel so bad! My question being Can you splice fiber optics?
I feel so bad! My question being Can you splice fiber optics?Others with the fiber optics may have some better suggestions...next to pulling console apart and replacing entire cable.
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You can splice then together. I did a paper in college on splicing fiber optics to calculate the effects of signal loss through various splices. To get the least amout of loss they need to be perfectly parallel and polished. Since ours are plastic it will be hard to get them perfectly polished. You will have some loss no matter what unless you change the entire run. Some of the vendors have splice kits but you could find some plastic fiber optics cable locally and replace the entire run. These cables originally were part of the forward wiring harness so if you don't get individual cables you have to replace the complete harness. They workd great at night but you have a hard time seeing the brake light indicators during the day. I like the system myself. Some of mine were not working when I bought my car but I found that the back of the headlights just needed to be cleaned and my tailight FO lenses had paint on them.
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I have been thru the wringer on FO. Dont waste your time splicing. Perfectly done, you will still loose 50% of light transmittal, on a system that diesnt transmit light very well to begin with
Either get new cables from a vette vendor (expensive), or cruise the net. I found 60' for $11.00 over the net....
Either get new cables from a vette vendor (expensive), or cruise the net. I found 60' for $11.00 over the net....
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Originally Posted by Love My 72 and 77
I was under the dash of my 68 looking at the hood release and noticed somethign I had never seen a bunch of fiber optics coming through the floor board unfortunatley they were all cut in half I feel so bad! My question being Can you splice fiber optics?
I feel so bad! My question being Can you splice fiber optics?
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