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Use Fiber Optic Pool Lights for Your Safety

May 30th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

Before fiber optic pool lighting there were watertight lights that could be used in swimming pools and spas. Unfortunately they were not only bulky but it was also very difficult to change the light bulbs once they burned out. The old system was a possible hazardous environment because the mix of water and electricity can have fatal outcomes. Besides avoiding the possible dangers the use of fiber optic pool lighting also made it much easier to change the light if it burned out.

The Idea of Fiber Optic Pool Lights
Having to deal with water in the spas and the swimming pools has always been a challenge to designers as a liquid environment is difficult to work with. The most obvious concern is the use of electricity near water but there is another concern causing even more problems and that is that the light generate an extreme heat and the brighter the light is the more heat is produced and the more will you get burned if you touch it.

To separate the light source from the water, the nature of the electricity requires that a bulky fixture is to be used so that the connection between the two is never made. Normally this involves a metal frame to hold the heat resistant glass lens and the high wattage bulb. The reason for having high wattage bulbs is that you need a very bright light to be able to shine through the water. You can imagine that a great deal of heat builds up in the frame and lens. The problem is that people using the pool or spa can get burned if they come to close to the lenses and frames so the designers needed a better solution.

Changing the color of the light bulbs to create an effect was almost impossible because of the frame and the way it was made to keep the water out. From a design point of view this was not good enough.

An efficient solution to all of the problems mentioned above came with the use of fiber optics pool lights. They allow the source of light to be centralized due to the very nature of fiber optics and the source could therefore easily be moved farther away from the pool. In reality you can have fiber optic pool lights working off of one light source. This source can even be far away from the spa and the solution to the water mixed with electricity is therefore solved.

By removing the source of the light away from the pool you would also remove the source to the heat that could possibly burn the people using the pool. Finally the designers had a blast when they found out that they could easily change colors by applying a simple filter to the source and because this was not anywhere near the water this was a simple task. They could even have the colors change by using a little motor that rotated the colored filter by a push of a button.

Integrating fiber optic pool lights are the only reasonable thing to do and therefore most swimming pools and spas are already equipped with fiber optic lighting.