Ericsson FSU 925 PM-A Polarization Maintaining Fiber Fusion Splicer (tested)

Description

I am an equipment liquidating company.  This is an excess Ericsson FSU 925 PM-A fiber splicer from an engineering client that uses a lot of equipment for projects then they no longer need the equipment after the project is completed.  It also could be their own building's fiber they spliced with this.  Hard to say for sure.  I have great history of happy buyers of their excess equipment.
Brand: Ericsson
Model #: FSU 925-PM-A
Model: Panda Fusion Splicer Polarity maintaining
Serial #: 00151
Testing: I am using a piece of Multi-Mode fiber I purchased for this testing.  Switched PRM to "04" from "01" to switch from Single Mode fiber to Multi-Mode fiber.  I went through a lot of learning and trial and error to learn the proper fiber lengths, angles, stripping precision and cleaving precision needed to present the slicer with a fiber it thinks is clean enough and angled in the fusing area properly in order to make the splice to it's quality.  Once I learned that, the process that I currently have in the pictures, the splicer appears to make a nice splice.  The camera looked at it and estimated -.28dB and -.29dB loss.  Unfamiliar with that rating system for if I did it exactly right to get the optimal splice but I assume buyers understand the meaning of that number.  I took the fiber out and it looked like a fiber that looked like it is doing what is intended.
Once you have it properly cleaved (done in the included EFC11 cleaver) and adequately cleaned, you pushed the two "Fuse" buttons and it starts its process:
- It moves the fibers together and does "rough alignment" (photo #2)
- then it moves them where it likes them and "aligns fibers" (photo #3)
- then if it likes what it sees it "splices" the two fibers (photo #4)
- then it checks the fiber after splicing (photo #5)
- then it shows the two estimated dB loss figures (photo #6 & #7)
- completed fiber spliced in my process described here (photo #8)
Included:
(1) Ericsson FSU925-PM-A Splicer  (serial 00151)
(1) Ericsson EFC-11 Cleaver  (serial E12658)
(1) Ericsson power supply
(1) pair of .400mm fiber holders
(1) pair of .250mm fiber holders
(1) case of small parts/accessories (request photo if desired)