A LED light pipe is an optical fiber or a solid transparent plastic rod for transmitting light from an LED mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB) to the user interface. Light pipes transmit up to 80 ...

Powell Electronics is stocking a pair of light pipe design kits from Bivar. Each kit includes a selection of Bivar’s most popular light pipes: Panel Press-Fit kit (right) is has rigid light-pipes up ...

LED technology extends beyond the diode itself, relying on light pipes and supporting hardware to deliver precise, reliable illumination in modern electronic designs. This article from Essentra ...

BivarOpto, the Optoelectronics division of Bivar Inc, introduced a light pipe designed specifically to operate with board-mounted push-button switches, enabling non-lighted switch models to perform ...

Meeting IP68 requirements, Elma’s LED light pipes are waterproof and come in a wide range of options. Meeting IP68 requirements, Elma’s LED light pipes are waterproof and come in a wide range of ...

Light pipes are a pretty tricky feature to pull off. If the generic set on Digikey doesn’t meet your size and shape constraints, you’ll need to either find a vendor who can fabricate a specific shape ...

Choosing the best lightpipe can sometimes be a mystery. A quick Web search for the key words “light pipe” will yield over a million results (at least more than you'd want to count)! The results range ...

You’d think that something made out of glass and epoxy would transmit a decent amount of light. Unfortunately for [Jeremy Ruhland], it turns out that FR4 is not great light pipe material, at least in ...