I've never really been impressed by side-glow fibre optic material. It's a specific type of fibre optic that is lossy, so it emits light along its full length. The downside of that is that it also loses intensity along its length.
When it first appeared commercially it was touted as the new replacement for neon, with overexposed marketing pictures to swamp out the camera and make it look brighter and more consistent than it is. I can recall seeing it in use on the front of a building in Florida, and there was a bright light source at both ends that rapidly faded to the middle of the strip.
This stuff is aimed at car interiors where the "skirt" or fin is intended to be jammed between abutting interior surfaces. Electroluminescent wire would do a better job for low level linear illumination over a reasonable length.
The light source module is the best bit of this product. It has potential uses for illuminating a bundle of traditional fibre optics. The sources are available on their own with a choice of port diameter.
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When it first appeared commercially it was touted as the new replacement for neon, with overexposed marketing pictures to swamp out the camera and make it look brighter and more consistent than it is. I can recall seeing it in use on the front of a building in Florida, and there was a bright light source at both ends that rapidly faded to the middle of the strip.
This stuff is aimed at car interiors where the "skirt" or fin is intended to be jammed between abutting interior surfaces. Electroluminescent wire would do a better job for low level linear illumination over a reasonable length.
The light source module is the best bit of this product. It has potential uses for illuminating a bundle of traditional fibre optics. The sources are available on their own with a choice of port diameter.
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
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I just got the 3mm "side light" flex solid tube. Thanks for the demo. Looked a long time before you showed me what I needed to see. A bright light coming from each end of I get to apply it.
What are better options??
Hy sir, it's not working. It's repairable?
Thanks for the video! Is there one one you would suggest? I said at the end of the video, "Better options?
The Chinese call this kind of trinket an "optical fiber" but it is in fact a simple PMMA tube
Would love you to open up a 7kw home wall charger for an electric car. My electric company want ยฃ999 to install one. I reckon its a scam as my electric shower is 10.8kw. Just wondering whats inside it gold. You can use a normal household plug for 3kw charge to your car so whats stopping me wiring a 10.8 kw lead up to it direct. Thanks Clive be great if you could get hold of one and explain if its a scam or if itโs worth ยฃ1,000
great video check my channel for daily fiber optic splicing in the field
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ellumiglow does some laser wire stuff that does some really interesting things that blows this out of the water
well i mean it works for short distances
either a bad cut on the end or crappy "fiber" This one actually looks good
/watch?v=uKBI3FKaxwo
The problem with the fiber is, that it is symmetric along its length. It radiates a fixed fraction of light per length that runs through it. One could fabricate a cable that would leak a higher and higher fraction of the light to compensate, to have relatively even brightness along its length. But such a changing cable would be much more expensive to mass produce. But maybe a homogenous cable and fraction expose or coating along its length?
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OMG!!! YOU are who I've been looking for even though I didn't know it. Mr Light Man I need your help. Have you seen or worked with LED strip lights called s something like "fexible z strip" or "s strip"? They allow wrapping the strip almost in a circle but with the lights facing up or down instead of inside or outside of the circle. (I want to DIY some grow lights for house plants that would be tucked under each level of a circular plant stand).
Reminds me of the same rubbery plastic stuff used to make FM T-shaped antennas for your hifi tuner and you'd tack it to the wall using that "curtain". Maybe they're leftovers that someone thought…"lets shine an LED down this, ok good enough".
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