[time-nuts] LTE-Lite
Don Latham
djl at montana.com
Fri Dec 5 19:22:24 UTC 2014
actually, Magritte had it: “this is not a pipe”
Don
> On Dec 5, 2014, at 8:01 AM, Chuck Harris <cfharris at erols.com> wrote:
>
> The OP said he couldn't find anything applicable when he was
> looking for "light pipe". So, I offered him a suggestion for
> why. Ultimately, we are talking about locating something
> using a search engine.
>
> The public has taken to the high tech sounding term "fiber optic"
> to describe what used to be called a light pipe. If it is thin,
> and flexible, and moves light from one location to another, it
> will be known to most people as "fiber optic".
>
> As an example, sitting here on my workbench is a light that I use
> to illuminate objects under my Olympus stereo microscope. It is
> made by Nikon, and has the following words inscribed on its panel:
>
> "NIKON, Inc. MKII Fiber Optic Light"
>
> Do you imagine that it is a precision glass or plastic waveguide,
> or just a flexible light pipe?
>
> -Chuck Harris
>
>
>
> paul swed wrote:
>> That is a good suggestion. But I fall into the camp. "Not really that
>> important now."
>> At least not to get me to pull it out of the rack. :-)
>> The little LED are pretty bright and I remember some broadcast equipment
>> used light pipes.
>> OK now I am going to get silly but this is time-nuts. I think light pipe
>> and fiber optics are two different terms.
>> Yes they both pass light. But a fiber optic is a precision glass or plastic
>> waveguide. A light pipe is a bulk piece of plastic that is not a wave guide
>> in respect to the accuracy of the walls.
>> Oh I am so doomed now that I said that.
>> Regards
>> Paul
>> WB8TSL
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