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Fiber Optic Outdoor Lighting: Color Options Enhance Your Home

May 12th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

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Swimming pool with fiber optic lighting. Fire pit in foreground at right. Lighting a fountain in an outdoor pond or the spray from a vertical pump in your pool is easy with fiber optic outdoor lighting. Color choices can quickly be made to change with the seasons. Imagine being able to change your fountain’s color to alternating red and green for Christmas; or to a red, white and blue theme for Fourth of July. Your home can be the envy of the neighborhood with the decorative options available to you using fiber optic outdoor lighting.

One of the biggest advantages of fiber optic outdoor lighting is the lack of electric power running through the installation. Fiber optic cables are simply run from the light source to the destination. The cable itself reflects the light from a source such as an LED or other illuminator. So there’s no electric current involved to create the potential for short circuits or fire and there’s no heat involved, which is especially safe when running the optical cables through a wall or under water.

In addition to lower installation and maintenance costs over time, fiber optic outdoor lighting offers the added benefit of being able to change colors in an instant. Most are tested in extreme hot and cold weather and can provide lighting options in otherwise inaccessible outdoor entertaining areas.

Installation of fiber optic outdoor lighting should be well thought out as placement in bright sunlight or near high ambient lighting can make the optic light appear washed out and nearly invisible. The color of the light you choose can help with visibility. More cable strands can increase brightness; and the length of different cables running from the same light source can affect the brightness of each strand. Fibers come in glass or plastic. You may wish to choose plastic because of its lower cost and flexibility in bending and cutting.