{"id":6076,"date":"2019-08-29T15:42:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T21:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=6076"},"modified":"2019-08-29T15:42:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T21:42:19","slug":"diy-usb-powered-fiber-tester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=6076","title":{"rendered":"DIY USB Powered Fiber Tester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using a cheap TP-Link media converter you too can make a portable fiber tester.  The SFP cage allows you to swap optics to fit whatever fiber you&#8217;re trying to test.<\/p>\n<p>This particular media converter ships with a 9 volt wall brick, but fortunately it&#8217;s happy to run the SFP cage off of a 5V usb charger; all you have to do is make a custom cable for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003CFATL0\/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&#038;psc=1\">Link to media converter HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YFp82EAXmzI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a cheap TP-Link media converter you too can make a portable fiber tester. The SFP cage allows you to swap optics to fit\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6077,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076\/revisions\/6077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}