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Side-light Fiber Optic Tube - 4mm Diameter - 1 meter long

We have ✅ 4 available of the AF-4163 in our Sydney warehouse. An extra 100 units will be available shortly.

Express post delivery (2-5 business days)

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 reflection" (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 4mm 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 got them in red, green, blue, white, and Adafruit pink!

The Side-light Fiber Optic Tube - 4mm Diameter - 1 meter long appears in the following collections:

SKU AF-4163

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David Boccabella
Great replacement for EL Wire

Hi. I have used this from several sources and really glad that LBE is selling it. Instead of all the mess with EL Wire including driver, high voltage, and the weakness in bending - this acrylic fibre gets rid of all of those issues.
You can use a bright LED at one end and see the light shine out along it's length. Put a LED at each end and you can have fin dimming or PWM.
Or even go the full RGB for maximum effect.
Hope this helps.