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Glass Fiber Optics: Creative Lighting Fixtures, December 2006

 

Bahdeebahdu creates custom, one of a kind (one-off) decorative lighting fixtures, often from found objects. Usually, many traditional lamps or bulbs are needed to create the special effects desired. Conservation Lighting International was asked to design and furnish Glass Fiber Optics illumination because the miniaturized system perfectly suited the particular limited space available. This light is cool to the touch and safe, because no electricity, just light rays, travels along the glass light guides. Glare is also eliminated and destructive ultraviolet rays are absent.

Solid glass rods pierced the sides of the "light fixture"- a 6' wooden stepladder, Image below. One end of each rod was attached to a glass light guide ("tail"), so that the light traveled along it. One 150-watt metal halide illuminator (projector) powered a glass harness of 16 tails, each of equal level light, saving maintenance. This produced an energy-efficient yet sophisticated design for decades of permanent operation.

The light source (the size of a large shoebox) with a lamp with 6,000-hour (normal 18 month) life, was placed on the floor, with the tails draped on one side of the ladder as an added visual effect. Rubber feet on the illuminator, and the quiet concert-style internal exhaust fan made for silent operation.

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