Due to a last-minute cancellation we now have places available on our next City & Guilds 3667 Combined Unit 2 & 3 Fibre course, on 12-16 March 2018 at Lucid Training Centre; This is the industry standard qualification in the UK, covering all areas of fibre installation. We only take max 6 trainees per course so call or email now for the latest price and discounts.
Due to the snow last week, we will be running the City & Guilds 3667 Unit 4 Internal Copper Datacoms course from 19-22 March 2018 at Lucid Training Centre, with two separate courses at Lucid Training Centre and at Crawley on the same dates. This course covers all aspects of Ethernet, Cat 5,6, 7 and upcoming 8, voice, and standards for structured cabling.
The C&G 3667 Unit 4 gives a formal certificate from a UK licensed awarding body, and it is
generic so covers all brands of equipment, unlike the various manufacturer’s own courses available.
We are also offering a free 3667 Unit 1 Exam with each unit 4 booking, which helps qualify you for the ECS/CSCS Datacoms card. If you have already done the 3667 fibre course with Lucid – or is thinking of doing it – you would also qualify for our multi-course discount
If interested then please get in touch as soon as possible, places are limited as we only take max 6 trainees on each course.
We still have a few places available on our next City & Guilds 3667 Unit 4 Internal Copper Datacoms course, running for 4 days from 5-8 March 2018 at Lucid Training Centre in the North. This course covers all aspects of Ethernet, Cat 5,6, 7 and upcoming 8, voice, and standards for structured cabling.
if booking this course you will also get a free 3667 Unit 1 Exam, which qualifies you for the ECS/CSCS Datacoms card. If you have already done the 3667 fibre course with Lucid – or is thinking of doing it – you would also qualify for our multi-course discount
The C&G 3667 Unit 4 gives a formal certificate from a UK licensed awarding body, and it is generic so covers all brands of equipment, unlike the various manufacturer’s own courses available.
If you are unable to make the 5-9 March or prefer to take the course near London, we also have a 3667 Unit 4 Copper Data running in Crawley from 19-22 March.
If interested then please get in touch as soon as possible, places are limited as we only take max 6 trainees on each course.
We have another job for a Lucid trained splicer.
If you trained in fibre optics with us and are considering your next contract, then the client who recently asked us to find a couple of our trainees to work for them on 6 and 12 month contracts has said they now have a third contract position available.
I’m afraid we can’t help you if you are not one of our trainees. The client has asked for people trained by us because as our contact put it “I know how good your training is”, and we can’t vouch for others.
More information available on request, or send me a CV to forward on to the client.
This is Lucid’s original full 5-day advanced testing course, run by John Colton, our technical director who is an acknowledged world expert on advanced testing of fibre networks, and wrote the first OTDR and PMD courses in the industry 20 years ago.
The course carries two formal level 3 certificates from a UK licensed awarding body. The location is Lucid Training Centre in Garsdale, Cumbria LA10 5PE
The course is modular, starting with the “Advanced OTDR Testing” module over the first 3 days, followed by the “Advanced PMD and CD Testing” module over the last two days – either module can be taken separately as well if preferred.
Due to corporate commitments we don’t often get the opportunity to run this as an open course, so please call or email as soon as possible if you’d like to reserve a place.
The government consultation on laser pointers carried out in August-October 2017 has now finished, and the results are published here:
The report concludes that it is not practically possible to control import of laser pointers, and introducing a licensing system as in New Zealand and Australia has had little effect
The main recommendations are to introduce new labelling for the degree of danger that is immediately obvious to the public, and to increase public awareness of the hazards through information campaigns, and in schools.
We fully agree with the statement in the report that:
“the one thing more hazardous than a correctly labelled high power laser pointer is a high power laser pointer labelled as safe”
We still have a few places available on our next City & Guilds 3667 Unit 4 Internal Copper Datacoms course at Lucid, running for 4 days from 20-23 November. This course covers all aspects of Ethernet, Cat 5,6, 7 and upcoming 8, voice, and standards for structured cabling.
if booking this course you will even get a free 3667 Unit 1 Exam as well, which helps get the ECS / CSCS card. If you have already done a 3667 fibre course with Lucid, you would also qualify for our multi-course discount
The C&G 3667 Unit 4 gives a formal certificate from a UK licensed awarding body, and it is generic so covers all brands of equipment, unlike the various manufacturer’s own courses available.
If interested then please get in touch as soon as possible, places are limited as we only take max 6 trainees on each course.
We still have places available on our next City & Guilds 3667 Combined Unit 2 & 3 Fibre course, on 10-14 July at Lucid Training Centre; This is the industry standard qualification in the UK, covering all areas of fibre installation. We only take max 6 trainees per course so call or email now for the latest discounts.
Here is another batch of course feedback; this is every single comment we’ve had on the feedback sheets, and they are all excellent!
| Date | Course | Trainer | Comments from course report forms |
| Jun-17 | C&G Fibre | Steve | Really worthwhile course. Well presented and comfortable. |
| May-17 | C&G Fibre | Alistair | Alistair has been excellent at giving information in understandable and relevant chunks. |
| May-17 | C&G Fibre | Alistair | Aistair is extremely knowledeable, polite and helpful. He took the time to explain things in a very clear and concise manner. Thank you very much indeed. |
| May-17 | C&G Fibre | Alistair | Excellent course well run and explained. Will return to attend the copper course . Many thanks. |
| May-17 | C&G Fibre | Alistair | Another well run and excellent course. Covered everything I needed and more. Staff are always helpful and welcoming. |
| May-17 | Laser safety | John | Very intense day full of information but well worth doing. Refreshments and facilities very good. Thank you . |
| Apr-17 | AOTDR | John | Great course, met all my theory requirements. Not too worried as to how much practical took place |
| Apr-17 | AOTDR | John | Great course |
| Apr-17 | Fibre Intro | John | Very enjoyable and informative. |
Unfortunately, not all trainees take the time to write a comment – by the end of a course most are rushing to beat the traffic!
For more comments see our feedback page at http://www.lucidos.co.uk/about-lucid/course-feedback-reviews/
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Posted by Hyperfast Dentdale and Garsdale on Saturday, 24 June 2017
We have still got places left on our next City & Guilds 3667 Unit 4 Internal Copper Datacoms course at Lucid, running for 4 days from 3-6 July. This course covers all aspects of Ethernet, Cat 5,6, 7 and upcoming 8, voice, and if booking this course you will even get a free 3667 Unit 1 Exam as well, which helps get the ECS card.
The C&G 3667 Unit 4 gives a formal certificate from a UK licensed awarding body, and it is generic so covers all brands of equipment, unlike the various manufacturer’s own courses available.
If interested then please get in touch as soon as possible, places are limited as we only take max 6 trainees on each course.
Due to cancellations we now have spaces available on the next City & Guilds 3667 Units 2+3 Internal and external Fibre course in Crawley next week, 22-26 May. Please call the office or email us from the website if you are interested, we can offer a last-minute discount, and the next course in Crawley will be some months off.
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Here are ALL the comments from delegates who took the time to write on our feedback forms, totally unedited – good and bad!
| Date | Course | Trainer | Comments from course report forms |
| Mar-17 | AOTDR | John | Very good all round |
| Mar-17 | AOTDR | John | Great course with reliable examples. Large focus on installation which was a little less desireable for cable manufacturing but still useful. |
| Mar-17 | AOTDR | John | Course was very relaxed and informative and I enjoyed it .John was a very good trainer. |
| Mar-17 | AOTDR | John | Excellent course, very well presented. Went way above what I expected. |
| Mar-17 | C&G Fibre | Alistair | Very good course. All staff very friendly and extremely helpful. |
| Mar-17 | C&G Fibre | Alistair | Excellent course, excellent tutor, excellent delivery, can’t ask for more. I am delighted and very appreciative of the quality of the tutor and the delivery of the subject matter |
| Mar-17 | C&G Fibre | Steve | Thanks for a fantastic course |
| Mar-17 | C&G Fibre | Steve | Location of venue is excellent.Excellent delivery of course by Steve. Thanks |
| Mar-17 | C&G Fibre | Steve | Really enjoyed the course. Trainer was very helpful and always happy to help . Great course and will tell people about it . |
| Feb-17 | C&G Fibre | Alistair | Very enjoyable course |
| Feb-17 | C&G Fibre | Alistair | Enjoyed the course , very informal. I believe I am in a better position with fibre principles/cabling than I could ever managed on my own in the field. . Alistair has been great . |
| Feb-17 | C&G Fibre | Alistair | Kept it fun and that hepled as a lot of information to take in. Cannot fault it. |
| Feb-17 | C&G Fibre | Alistair | Excellent course . All demonstrations and course work fantastic. Alistair was very knowledgeable and a fantastic tutor . |
| Feb-17 | C&G Fibre | Alistair | Really enjoyed the week. Excellent tutor in Alistair, very knowledgeable. |
For more feedback see http://www.lucidos.co.uk/about-lucid/course-feedback-reviews/
As part of our drive for continued improvement of our courses and facilities, we have a new and rather large bean-to-cup coffee machine, complete with milk foamer, arriving tomorrow.
This will make expresso, americano, latte, cappuchino and whatever else our trainees might want.
If you’d like to be one of the first to try these, then we still have a couple of places available on the courses running next week from 27/3/2017 at Lucid –
“Advanced Fibre Characterisation Engineer (Level 3 Certificate)”, “Advanced OTDR Testing (Level 3 Certificate)”, and
“City and Guilds 3667 Unit 2&3 Combined Fibre” 
This is Lucid’s original full 5-day advanced testing course, run by John Colton, our technical director who is an acknowledged world expert on advanced testing of fibre networks, and wrote the first OTDR and PMD courses in the industry 20 years ago.
The course carries two formal level 3 certificates from a UK licensed awarding body. The location is Lucid Training Centre in Garsdale, Cumbria LA10 5PE
The course is modular, starting with the “Advanced OTDR Testing” module over the first 3 days, followed by the “Advanced PMD and CD Testing” module over the last two days.
Due to corporate commitments we don’t often get the opportunity to run this as an open course, so please call or email as soon as possible if you’d like to reserve a place.
The Lucid office has been busy on the travel websites today: we’ve booked 3 return flights, car hire, airport parking, and two return ferry tickets, and arranged 2 shipments of equipment – and that doesn’t even include travel for our upcoming trips to Bermuda.
Lucid have been asked if we can put forward details of any of our ex-trainees who have off-shore certificates and would like some contract work.
Pre-requisites are: off-shore certificate and trained/certified by Lucid Optical Services Ltd. If you’ve not been trained and certified by us at Lucid the employer is not interested so this is strictly for our trainees.
Either phone the office or email your details to us at Lucid and we’ll send these on to the employers representative.
Congratulations to all the Community First Responders (CFRs) from Garsdale, and two from Dent and Sedbergh, on passing their annual assessments today. The assessments, taking 30 min for each volunteer CFR, were hosted by Lucid in support of our local CFR team.
With our idyllic rural location, speed of access to emergency services is not what it could be, so it is potentially life saving to have these local CFR teams who can reach patients to administer CPR, defibrillation and oxygen before the ambulance arrives.
And a happy New Year to you from all of us at Lucid
As usual, we are not sending Christmas cards but are donating to charities instead. This year our chosen charities are the Air Ambulance, Garsdale First Responders, the “Garsdale Red Squirrel Group” which helps preserve one of the last pockets of red squirrels left in England, and finally a new charity, “Rebuilding Nepal” – following the earthquakes, the region is still struggling with instabilities and landslides which could carry on for years.
Just post a comment with your preferred choice below or on our facebook page at www.facebook.com/LucidOptical.
At the FIA (Fibre-optics Industry Association) AGM on 5th December 2015, Mike Gilmore stepped back after many years service as Technical Director of FIA – the end of an era!
Lucid’s John Colton was then elected as the new Technical Director, after 13 years as a FIA director with responsibility for training and qualifications. John is looking forward to carrying on Mike’s work representing the fibre optics industry in UK and looking after the interests of all the FIA members.
Thanks to Mike Gilmore for all his work for the FIA, and congratulations to John Colton.
