How To Install Fiber Optic Lighting In Concrete

The compartment also houses a light box.

How to install fiber optic lighting in concrete. Light in a fiber optic cable travels through the core by constantly bouncing back and forth. We do not install or make the countertops we only sell the supplies. When the concrete is cast and the surface inverted these fiber optic bristles will stick up from the top. Fiber optic concrete countertops.

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. Fiber cable and light units for the job. Smash the ends of the cables with a hammer or other blunt object to fray and roughen them. Run fiber optic cables up through the bottom of the forms and spread out the ends of the cables at random.

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. We built a concrete bad with fiber optic lights in it to look like stars at night. For our purposes we will deal with just the light carrying properties of fiber optics. A metal halide bulb lights the optical fibers in this concrete sample.

There a color wheel and two led light bulbs produce the light for the reflective fiber optic display. Add a touch of class to your concrete countertops with our fiber optic cables and light systems. 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. Give each fiber a slight tug at a perpendicular angle to make sure it fits snugly.