4164 ADAFRUIT | Alldatasheet
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Side-light Fiber Optic Tube - 5mm Diameter - 1 meter long PRODUCT ID: 4164 Yay, a plastic tube! No, we jest. This is no ordinary plastic tube, but rather a side-lighting fiber optic tube. This is a pretty neat way to glow up. Light in the fiber optic cable zooms through the core by constantly bouncing off of the edge of the molded plastic, a principle called "total internal reflec tion" (which also kinda sounds like a very expensive meditation island retreat). When the light pipe doesn't have total reflection, you can get a nifty lighting effect from the light illuminating the plastic tubing. This tube is 5mm diameter, but is nice and flexible plastic and when lit with a powerful LED, has a nice glowing effect. You can cut it down from 1 meter with diagonal cutters.
Note: This is just the tube, and does not include an emitter LED. You'll also want to grab one of our fiber lights. We've go t them in red, green, blue, white, and Adafruit pink! https://www.adafruit.com/product/4164/4‐26‐19