Fiber Optic Lights In Concrete

The compartment also houses a light box.

Fiber optic lights in concrete. Add a touch of class to your concrete countertops with our fiber optic cables and light systems. Unlimited ideas with fiber from walkways walls countertops and architectural designs. We built a concrete bad with fiber optic lights in it to look like stars at night. Weather doing a pour in place or mold cast fiber optics adds richness elegance and a sight to be seen.

There a color wheel and two led light bulbs produce the light for the reflective fiber optic display. While the blocks have the strength and weight of concrete the fiber optics. I ve had fiber optic pieces in place 15 years now and haven t had an issue says jeff kudrick product manager for j m lifestyles llc randolph n j. Run fiber optic cables up through the bottom of the forms and spread out the ends of the cables at random.

A metal halide bulb lights the optical fibers in this concrete sample. Light in a fiber optic cable travels through the core by constantly bouncing back and forth. Fiber optic concrete countertops. Thin fiber optic lights create surprising concrete surfaces.

Fiber optic lines are thin strands of optically pure glass or plastics that are capable of carrying light and or digital information over long distances. Once the fibers are embedded in the concrete they will conduct light and last as long as the concrete itself. 48 strand mix fiber optic lighting end glow cable 11 32 3 65 eg pack 48 endglow cable 11 32 has 6 1 5mm 32 75mm 10 5mm fibers for a full mix of star sizes. Smash the ends of the cables with a hammer or other blunt object to fray and roughen them.

Fiber cable and light units for the job. Luccon is made of fiber optic strands called eska which are embedded in layers into blocks of concrete like a lasagna. Acrylic fibers reflect light from one end to the other until it finally exits the far end. Just like christmas tree lights the lighting can be programmed to change colors at various speeds be set to just one color including white or be turned off.

For our purposes we will deal with just the light carrying properties of fiber optics. This process helps the cables stick to the glass chunks and also diffuses the light at the end of the strand.