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EXFO FTB-7000 OTDR Series for FTB-500 User Manual

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Testing Fibers in Template Mode

OTDR

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Acquiring Traces in Template Mode

3. Select the Template mode.

3a. From the main window, press Setup, then select the Mode tab.

3b. Under Mode, select Template.

If necessary, select Reference Update to update your reference
trace for the next acquisitions.

If you want the application to automatically start Template mode
after updating the reference trace, select the Switch to Template
Mode After
box and enter a number of acquisitions in the
corresponding box.

If Reference Update mode is active, you will notice that the Add
to Ref.
and Delete buttons are available in the Event table pane of
the main window.

3c. Set the Template mode option you want to use on the current

trace acquisition:

³

Consider only the events already indicated on the reference trace
and ignore any other event occurring on the current trace.

³

Keep all the events on the current trace, whether they are on the
reference trace or not. You can delete these events later.