FC Adapter Series

Available Variants

Technical Specifications

• Sleeve material

  Ceramic (Zirconia)

• Key width — APC

  2.05 mm

• Key width — UPC

  2.15 mm

• Insertion loss — Grade B (IEC 61300-3-4)

  0.1 dB

• Insertion loss — Grade C (IEC 61300-3-4)

  0.2 dB

• Mode type

  Singlemode / Multimode

• Mating durability (IEC 61300-2-2)

  500 cycles at not less than 3 s between engagement

• Pull-out force (IEC 61300-2-6)

  100 N at 10 N/s, 60 s

• Cold (IEC 61300-2-17)

  -40 °C (±3 °C), 96 h

• Dry heat (IEC 61300-2-18)

  +85 °C (±3 °C), 96 h

• Change of temperature (IEC 61300-2-22)

  -40 °C to +95 °C, 60 min at extremes, 1 °C/min rate of change, 12 cycles

• Damp heat (IEC 61300-2-19)

  +40 °C (±2 °C) at 93 % RH, 2–3 % RH, 96 h

• Durability (500 mating)

  0.2 dB max increase

• Withdrawal force (g/f)

  100 / 300

• Operating temperature

  -40 to +80 °C

• Net weight — square solid / 2-piece

  9 g

• Net weight — rectangular simplex

  6 g

• Net weight — rectangular duplex

  10 g

• Net weight — round D1 / D3

  6 g

• Net weight — round D4

  5.5 g

• Net weight — round D5 / DD

  5 g

• Standards

  JIS C5970, Bellcore GR-326, IEC 61300, RoHS

Key Features

• Multiple mount shapes

  Choose from square (solid or 2-piece), rectangular and round (D1, D3, D4, D5, DD) mounts to match panel cut-outs across different applications. D-shaped and H-shaped (rectangular) variants drop into existing panel mounts easily.

• Long-life metal body

  All-metal body rated for more than 1000 matings.

• Screw-type locking

  Stable and reliable screw-type locking with FC standard key — APC key width 2.05 mm, UPC key width 2.15 mm.

• UPC and APC dust caps

  Standard plugable dust caps colour-coded: yellow for singlemode UPC, green for singlemode APC, white for multimode. Screwable dust caps on request (add '-S' to the article number).

• Ceramic precision sleeve

  High-precision Zirconia ceramic sleeve standard. Rectangular FCdx PC variant uses a phosphor-bronze (PhBz) sleeve.

• International compliance

  Compliant with JIS C5970, Bellcore GR-326 and IEC 61300. All parts RoHS-compliant.

Available Variants

• Square solid
• Square 2-piece
• Rectangular simplex
• Rectangular duplex
• Round D1 / D3 / D4 / D5 / DD
• Metal body
• Screw-type locking
• APC / UPC

Application Areas

• CATV

  Cable television networks

• LAN & WAN

  Local- and wide-area networks

• Network

  General fibre-optic network infrastructure

• Broadband

  Broadband telecommunication links

• FTTx

  Fibre-to-the-x access networks