Placing Fiber Optic Lights In Cast In Place Concrete Countertops

I also lightly troweled down any bumps.

Placing fiber optic lights in cast in place concrete countertops.

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. Add a touch of class to your concrete countertops with our fiber optic cables and light systems. Weather doing a pour in place or mold cast fiber optics adds richness elegance and a sight to be seen.

I laid a couple boards on the mold to help keep the fiber optics pointed in the right direction. The plan is to tape them to the bottom of the mold to hold everything in place. A metal halide bulb lights the optical fibers in this concrete sample. 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.

This process helps the cables stick to the glass chunks and also diffuses the light at the end of the strand. 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. Light in a fiber optic cable travels through the core by constantly bouncing back and forth. Run fiber optic cables up through the bottom of the forms and spread out the ends of the cables at random.

Fiber optic concrete countertops are the latest big movers around the world. For our purposes we will deal with just the light carrying properties of fiber optics. After the concrete stiffened some i was able to lay over the fiber optic lines with less chance of pulling them loose. Once the fibers are embedded in the concrete they will conduct light and last as long as the concrete itself.