RE: Fibre optic lighting

["David Yeend" <david.yeend@xxxxxxx>]

If you are not familiar with handling glass fibre then do be careful. If
you happen to get a splinter in your blood stream then really you can be
looking at some serious consequences. It is a lot easier for this kind of
fibre to penetrate the skin and snap off.

Most fibre used for lighting systems is plastic and of a much larger
diameter than the typical 125 micron outer diameter of the stuff you are
talking about. 

Sorry if you know this already but I have had a lot of exposure to fibre
optic termination and the associated health and safety considerations.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 17 September 2002 14:07
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Fibre optic lighting


I'm about to do something vaguely similar, primarily because I was able to
acquire some duff fibre LAN cables from work... (the "because I
can" 
factor...) - I have about 10 off 10 meter SC to SC cables, each cable being
2 strands, giving 20 useable fibre points. I plan to cut the connectors
off, 
split the pairs into 2 single strands, and lay them into the mortar in some
brickwork I'm having done in the back garden. I'll bring all 20
"tails" 
together into a single bundle, and secure them to "some suitable light
source" (yet to be determined).

My builders have worked with fibre-optics in gardens before, courtesy of
their work for Diarmuid on Home Front, and so already have some experience
of what should work...

The work should be hapenning over the next week or so, so I'll let you know
how it goes...

Paul G.


>From: "Stephen Jones" <stephen.jones@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: "UK-HA group" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: [ukha_d] Fibre optic lighting
>Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:37:44 +0100
>
>A friend of a friend of mine wants to light up the ivy on his
exterior
>wall using some type of fibre optics threaded through it. Is this
>possible, and if so, has anyone ever done it and can offer some
advice,
>or any useful links/suppliers?
>
>It sounds a bit naff to me, but it's what he wants, and he seems to
have
>enough spare cash to spend it on this sort of thing.
>
>Steve




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