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How well would a single fiber cable carry light?
I'm planning on building a NAS out of a Raspberry PI computer. I'm building my own enclosure for it as well. Here is my rough plan (which is roughly to scale)
I want to put Indicator lights on the front of my enclosure, one for Power, one for Ethernet, one for HDD access, and one for Aux Accessory access (Anything plugged into the USB hub).
I'm Weary of soldering anything since I've planned this NAS device to have all of it's parts swappable if one of them fails.
I had an Idea though. You know those children's fiber lamps? What if I taped a fiber cable to each LED (Directing the light into the fiber) and brought them up to the front ?
My only concern is that the fiber wouldn't be bright enough. What do you think?
Forgot to post the plan (Imgur wouldn't accept it for some reason)
http://i1.minus.com/ibgMsoOVWRX6PW.png
also, Wary, not weary
a NAS device is a low-powered computer that acts as a place to store your files.
the LEDs on the PI are small, but bright, so I don't think it'll be too much of a problem. I did find some thicker fiber though (3 mm) , so I might look into that
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- billrussell42Lv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
What is NAS?
Re the fiber cable, it depends. Ones made for data communications, no. Get the ones they use for light displays. The difficult part will be to match the LED to the fiber.
- PhilomelLv 78 years ago
Use 1 mm plastic fiber. use small plastic tubing like in an oxygen canula. slip it around the fiber and inside the larger 1/4" tubing to couple small LEDs in different colors and bring them up to the front panel. They will be very bright. You can dim them by painting with whiteout, felt tip pen, tape etc..
